This statement represents the work of a task force for the American College Personnel Association. The task force for group procedures was established to consider problems and concerns about the use of group experiences on college campuses. This document gives direction to student-affairs professionals and to professionals facilitating group…

Notes that job qualifications, recruitment practices, and employee policies associated with teaching in international schools often differ dramatically from those found among typical U.S. public schools. Asserts that, to advise job seekers of this career option, career counselors need to be aware of the differences. Discusses international…

Notes that counselor educators, supervisors, and practitioners who communicate to students and trainees the importance of being caring, respectful, warm, flexible, honest, and personally competent, sometimes act in ways that contradict these significant beliefs and values. Discusses issues related to counselor educator's, supervisor's, and…

Responds to Lionel Nicholas (1993), suggesting that more direct confrontation on the response of counselors to apartheid is needed. Notes the relevance of the debate to counselors outside South Africa, and the need to deconstruct the implicit political agendas. (JPS)

High school and independent counselors often encounter college-bound students who are Christians or who wish to study in a Christian environment. The intent of this article is to help familiarize counselors with Christian colleges. By being familiar with these colleges, counselors can help their students of faith better facilitate a successful…

Heads of departments may find themselves in a counseling role both for staff and for students. Counseling in any department within a college requires skill and sensitivity to meet the needs of students and staff. Heads of departments may be faced with a variety of problems: students who complain about a staff member; scholastic failure or…

The author elaborates on five areas college placement officers must concern themselves with. Those areas are: (1) the college environment; (2) the student environment; (3) the employer recruitment environment; (4) the government environment; and (5) the value of the college degree. (Author)

This dyadic consulting model promotes a collaberative relationship among persons having responsibility in different community areas. The university is the setting for a consulting agreement between the counseling center and residence halls. A primary committee goal is proaction. A proactive program allows selective goals enhancing professional…

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)

Offers a proposal for reform in admission. Critiques the multiple application system. Shows how counselors can be the movers and shakers of reform, suggesting a five-year plan. (KS)

Responds to Caple's self-organization paradigm with interest in methods of promoting student growth and maturity. Finds use of a continuum with developmental and self-organization theories at opposite ends unnecessary, believing that growth takes place in a state of equilibrium or disequilibrium. Considers closed systems theory, as well as Caple's…

Reviews the statutory and case law regarding release of client information in three life endangering situations: child abuse, protection of third parties, and suicide. Describes the general principles of confidentiality and some specific legal issues for each of these three areas. (LLL)

Discusses the role of college career planning and placement offices which must adapt to a changing employment climate while ensuring their legitimacy in a troubled academic setting. Internal and external functions are described, and the particular difficulties of placement offices as boundary-spanning units are discussed. (JAC)

This discussion of the evolution of student personnel workers and their plight as budgets have been tightened gives suggestions of ways this group could use their human relations expertise to recover from their current condition of institutional impotence. (JC)

The parallel between the rise and fall of feminism is seen to have some relation to the development of NAWDC and to its position on the student personnel continuum. The author concludes that deans need to redefine their roles to working with women in all areas and supporting their efforts. (Author/CG)