Counseling centers must generate attention to educational processes and their effects on students. Counseling psychologists must then perform three functions. These functions could be performed by the following personnel: (1) the educational personnel researcher would aid in the understanding of the changing nature of students and the effects of…

This paper, fourth in a series of five monographs prepared by Harrisburg Area Community College to illustrate how the college is attempting to "meet the changing needs of students," presents the counseling program and describes the creative approach being used. The program has three main divisions, consisting of the faculty advisors,…

Resulting in part from a project designed to identify and describe comprehensive programs of excellence in career education, this booklet is the sixth in a series describing current, successful career education practices. Intended for counselors, this monograph has been prepared to show the relationship between career education, career…

Poetry is an effective, creative tool in counseling. This article enumerates advantages of using poetry and poetic methods and mentions techniques for incorporating the poem as a whole or in part. Ways of creating poetic awareness in counseling are emphasized. Guidelines for when to use poetry in counseling are suggested. (Author)

Instruments were investigated with the expectation that one of them might provide a systematic way of detecting individual needs at the onset of assertion training. The result was the discovery and subsequent use of the Gambrill-Richey Assertion Inventory, an excellent instrument developed in 1975. (Author)

In contrast to guidance, counseling in this article will refer to a method to enhance personal development and psychological competencies. Further, counseling is distinguished as a process incorporated primarily under the administrative rubric of guidance and is viewed as one essential function under the overall framework of services to pupils.…

Academically talented females are likely to aspire to achieve far less than their male cohorts, particularly in mathematics and science. Several sociocultural factors have been identified that create special problems to the gifted female. The implications of these factors for developing appropriate counseling strategies for intellectually gifted…

This article outlines the three contrasting ideologies of student management, and presents the teacher behavior continium that is organized around the methods and strategies of these approaches. Specific techniques are suggested for the counselor to offer the teacher in determining what might work best with a particular youngster. (LPG)

Describes a survey to determine perceived career education priorities of business, labor, parents, community, and school personnel in Maine (N=411). Results indicate working with career education provides school counselors with an opportunity to increase visibility and demonstrate competence to a broad spectrum of the community. (Author)

The author discusses how counseling psychologists differ from clinical psychologists and from personnel psychologists. He suggests that the way to solve the identity problem of counseling psychologists is to do well that which one is especially well qualified to do, whether that be clinical psychology, personnel psychology, or vocational…

Irritable bowel syndrome is benign, chronic, gastrointestinal disorder that affects much of the general population. Misunderstanding and lack of patient education often result in increased anxiety and physical distress. Counselors can be instrumental in recognizing the condition in afflicted clients and providing emotional support and stress…

Presents a model to clarify the facilitator's role in working with groups. The Hourglass Approach model incorporates Carkhuff's empathetic levels of communication and Schultz's theory of personality. It is designed to be a systematic and comprehensive method usable with a variety of counseling approaches in all types of groups. (JAC)

A questionnaire survey of 27 counselors in Ohio's public assisted technical college was conducted in an attempt to evaluate what a technical college counselor's role is and how he perceives himself in fulfilling that role. The results showed a large difference existed between perceived and actual roles. (DS)

The authors argue that counselors must begin to accept and then to implement a view of themselves as facilitators of change within the school system. (Author)