This article extends the findings reported in an earlier paper and deals with intra-role conflict and with the motivation for changing roles. The implications of the testimony given by the counselors for counselor preparation programs and for the structure of roles in schools were examined. (Author)

The author discusses aspects of the youth culture and concludes that counselors must reject the sanctimonious supremacy called adult chauvinism and try to communicate with the young. Youth might be looked to in order to intuit cultural adaptations that will increase chances that the human species will remain viable. (Author/BY)

Counselors who accept the gay liberation struggle for acceptance and equality, must first rid themselves of their own narrow or destructive attitudes toward homosexuals. It is only after acceptance of persons with different sexual preferences that the counselor can begin to think of himself as a helping person in this area. (Author/BY)

Schools, along with health care agencies, must be concerned with the prevention of teenage pregnancy, as well as with the health and education of the already pregnant student. To create an atmosphere conducive to seeking help, the policy of requiring pregnant students to withdraw must be abolished. In this study guidance counselor contact was…

Counselors should engineer extending and corrective experiences for their counselees. If appropriately selected, such experiences can prove a powerful adjunct to the more traditional counseling relationship. Counselors can use school and community experiences to accomplish guidance goals. (Author)

Changes in the student subculture are seen as changes from affective predominance to cognitive predominance. The article examines the implications these changes have for counseling and counseling techniques, i.e., that the counselor is a translator of one cultural style to the other, and his tools are different in an affectively based culture from…

Counselors and their clients must communicate effectively. Because trained counselors do not always relate to the problems of his clients who are black and poor, this article examines the role that paraprofessionals, or indigenous counselors, can play in the ghetto. (Author)

The demand that administrators employ more black counselors reveals grievances against guidance that have deeper roots than just current social revolution. This article examines the black student's view of guidance in order that counselors might develop a role for the profession that will serve this student more effectively. (Author)

The growth and development of infants and children is examined from the perspective of parenting. The author sees the family as the first educational delivery system for the child and presents concrete suggestions to aid educators and mental health specialists. (Author)

This article suggests skills and attitudes that are necessary for accomplishing the goals of counseling on issues of human sexuality, and how counselors can acquire these skills and attitudes. (Author)

Counselors are attempting to establish their professional identity in a psychological society. That identity will be established by building on a distinguished heritage and taking directions chosen on the basis of service to counselees. (Author)

This study indicated that counselors spent the same amount of time performing similar functions, regardless of the number of mentally retarded persons in their case loads. Counselors believed they were well-trained for carrying out policies and procedures, but desired for more training in working with the mentally retarded. (Author/BEF)

Investigated professional activities of members of the Division of Counseling Psychology of the American Psychological Association. Participants perceived themselves most involved with short-term, goal-directed counseling and program development and least involved with research and working with paraprofessionals. Subjects' interests indicate a…

There is no developmental theory explaining adequately the connection between human development and elementary counseling theory. This article explores the need for an integrative theory, explains some of the problems assocaited with the development of it, and proposes some directions for elementary counseling and guidance based on a communication…