Brief arguments for and against immunity from disclosure of privileged communications by counselors, social workers, and psychiatrists are made. (HMD)

Claiming that the current counselor role is not working, the author suggests that counselor educators train counselors to serve as consultants in order to provide direct help for parents, teachers, children, and administrators and to solidify their own positions in the schools. (RWP)

The author contends that counselor training and school realities are not insurmountable obstacles. School counselors are desperate for help and guidance in these times of upheaval and confusion and feel the resources to retrain, renew, and revitalize the profession rest with counselor educators and university personnel. Chris D. Kehas comments on…

The value of the itinerant counselor is discussed. The resident counselor can do testing and vocational and educational planning but is too closely associated with the administration and the establishment to be used by students in discussing personal problems. (CG)

Counselors cannot look only to the law to solve their professional problems in dealing with information about students. Nevertheless, they must understand confidentiality, privilege, and privacy in the context of ethical standards and legal requirements if they are to meet their responsibilities to clients, the profession, and to themselves.…

An effective counselor is described as one who has and uses his ability to help others. Techniques and trappings are secondary and may vary greatly from one effective counselor to the other. (Author)

The results of this study indicate that the development of a student's perceptions of the counseling function is a result of actual counselor contact, yet other important sources such as the mass media had an effect. (Author)

This article examines the nature and impact of paradoxical situations in counsellor education. The counsellor educator and trainee are the focus for defining and then examining these dilemmas. (Author)

This article discusses transpersonal approaches to counseling with emphasis on the possibilities of using suggestion, relaxation, hypnosis, imagery, and dreams. (Author)

The polemic being advanced in this paradigm for professionalization is simply that the school counselor must take an active part in his own professionalization. It is what the school counselor does, ultimately, that will decide this issue. (Author)

This article proposes that APGA attempt to shift the emphasis of the convention to obtaining concrete behavioral outcomes through the use of behavioral contracts (rather than resolutions) and through the specification and assessment of objectives for individual convention programs. (Author)

Widespread dissatisfaction with professional counselors and the service they provide is manifested in scathing attacks by women's lib proponents, minority group spokesmen, revolutionary lay counselors, and disenchanted professionals. This article identifies the criticism, and describes a lay counselor operation. (Author)

This investigation reveals that the perceptions of the counselor's role by teachers, counselors, counseling students, and teacher education students are quite congruent. The counselor needs to identify areas of disagreement and then to reach some compromise in order to move toward a more acceptable role. (Author)