Student support practitioners, who provide students with academic, emotional and social support, are integral to higher education institutions' initiatives to widen participation of students from disadvantaged backgrounds. Yet, despite calls for a deeper understanding of widening-participation practice, the work of these professionals has received…

Presents "upstream", a model for the utilization of professional counseling services in the residence halls, encompassing developmental, preventive, and remedial approaches. Suggests that the professional counselor can assist in four capacities in the actualization of these approaches: as a therapist, as a consultant, as a change agent,…

Results of a self-report questionnaire listing eight job activities showed that staff counselors in colleges and universities across the country spend about half their time in direct counseling services. Respondents use about 90 percent of their time providing direct personal service (method) focused on an individual (target) for either…

Replies to Dryden (1990) and De Jager (1992), exploring the role of organized counseling psychology in challenging, maintaining, or promoting apartheid. The role of counselors should be informed by an acknowledgment of the central involvement of race and politics within counseling psychology so that appropriate organizational interventions can be…

In reference to the topic of research, it seems an incongruence exists between what academic counseling psychologists would prefer versus what graduate students actually do. One of the first fears experienced by novice graduate students surrounds taking statistics and research methodology courses. Normalizing the statistics-related anxiety, and…

Counseling has traditionally taken individuals and small groups as clients, a practice that applied to college counseling as well. Presents an expanded perspective for college counselors to consider by outlining a philosophical rationale, role, training, and an ethical position that supports taking the campus environment as client. (Author)

In looking at how the professional identity of the counseling psychologist affects training, the author first defines the roles and functions for the counseling psychologist. She then discusses the implications for training, strengths and weaknesses of the professional identity, and suggestions for future directions. (Author/JEL)

Reacts to four previous articles on counseling psychology and sport psychology. Voices concerns about coherence and boundaries of counseling psychology's scientific and practice bases, efficient use of training resources, how much can be accomplished within predoctoral curricula, and how to work in tandem with those in other psychological…

Reacts to four previous articles on sport psychology and counseling psychology. Commends articles but questions lack of any significant reference to minority athlete, considering that articles focused on college athletics, that football and basketball are instrumental to college sport, and that participation of African-American athletes is…

Counselors play an integral role in assisting international students to manage cross-cultural transitions. Re-entry counseling can support international students to examine their transition experiences, provide education about re-entry, and help to develop anticipatory coping strategies. An example of a workshop is described as a method of…

This set of digests includes 35 two-page articles in the areas of counseling programs and practices; theory and research; and professional development. Fourteen articles are presented in the area of programs and practices. These range from the efficacy of school-based drug education programs to learning styles counseling. Six articles are…

The 1972 Summer Conference for Counselors of the Institute for Services to Education, Thirteen College Curriculum Program was held at Newton College of the Sacred Heart, Newton, Massachusetts during the period of June 25 through July 14, 1972. The general theme throughout the entire conference was three-fold in nature: (1) to introduce and develop…

Selected legal responsibilities of counselors under the present laws of the State of Wisconsin are reviewed. Specifically, statutes concerning privileged communication and confidentiality, drug abuse and abortion are printed in full or in part, and major questions and basic legal principles relevant to them are examined as they pertain to the…

An emphasis on therapy research and empirically supported treatments (ESTs) is currently suggested as the answer to many therapists' and counselors' problems with behavioral healthcare. Those eager to protect psychologists' share of behavioral care in an era of managed care are utilizing ESTs and process research to demonstrate the effectiveness…

Physical, psychological, academic, and career problems of spinal cord injured college students plus counselor knowledge, attitudes, and skills that help in solving these problems are cited. Community and commercial resources are identified. Programs that enhance faculty and employer sensitivity and cord injured student development are described.…