In this comment on Vontress' article, Banks focuses on the social conditions against which militants are usually reacting and asks counselors to challenge the social system and to adopt a counseling model based on the hope for broad social change. (Author)

The purpose of this exposition is to present a point of view regarding the differentiation of the counselor's role from other related helping professions, keeping the major function of counseling central in the argument. (Author/BY)

A discussion of the approaches the professionals use in helping drug abusers. (EK)

The role of counselors should include working toward democratization of the environment, acting as civil liberties advocates for individual students whose rights are in jeopardy, and providing support for counselees who choose to dissent against conventionally accepted policies of school or society. (Author)

The author concludes that the intelligent, progressive position for counselors would seem to be to realize that it is incumbent upon them to participate in research as they utilize in their daily work that which has already been conducted. (Author)

The purpose of this paper was to show the limited value that consultation has and its potential for crippling the guidance program by comparing consultation with counseling. The greatest contribution of consulting is its serving as a vehicle for moving persons into the counseling relationship. (Author/CG)

The author suggests that a counselor's emphasis should be on flexibility of approach. A counseling system should include physical as well as verbal and artistic means of communication. The educational system should be as concerned with psychomotor aspects of learning as with affective and cognitive aspects. (Author)

The purpose of this paper is to introduce the notion of the potent counselor, as an agent of personal and institutional change. (Author)

The results of the study suggest that counselors are identified by the functions they emphasize, and that changes in emphases can bring about changes in identity. The work of the counselor is not always well defined and, consequently, prevents him from attaining a separate identity. (Author)

The relationship between the perceptual differences of two year college counselors and administrators toward the role of the counselor were investigated. Results indicated that counselors do not perform the functions for which they hold a professional commitment and that administrators lack insight into the functions counselors should perform.…

The authors suggest that counselors must counsel actively for peace instead of war or, as is often the case under the guise of objectivity, adjustment to a highly militarized society. Counselors will not be in a position to work for peace until they themselves become conscientious objectors and war resisters. (Author/BY)

Feelings and behavior can be partially affected by the nutritional state. This article suggests that counselors attend to the eating habits of their clients. (Author)

Mate selection barriers beyond individuals' control are presented as reasons for development of formal mate selection networks. Network processes are described and classified according to the degree of third-party involvement and the degree to which anonymity of participants is protected. (Author)

Reports on interviews of 10 doctoral graduates of counselor education programs to determine how they viewed professional identity. Results focus on uniqueness of counselors, career development issues, dislike of research, grouping for support, dislike of managed care, anger over turf wars, and affinity with holistic and preventive medicine. (RJM)