Surveyed 148 New Hampshire school counselors regarding the need for professional development. Results indicated counselors had a desire and need for greater communication, contact, and liaison with other counselors and professional personnel. Describes the use of a workshop to develop the needs assessment survey. (JAC)

Describes a model counselor mentoring program begun by the Wake County (North Carolina) School System. Discusses selection, training, responsibility, and concerns of the six mentors; reactions of the eight new counselors; evaluation of new counselors; and the role of the mentor and on-site personnel. (NB)

Describes a model used to teach rational behavior skills to 34 emotionally disturbed adolescents. Discusses teaching, training, and counseling strategies. The group demonstrated significant positive changes in learning and personality variables, but not behavior. (JAC)

Describes traditional approaches to working with obese students (weight loss programs, nutrition programs, self-esteem groups). Suggests system-based alternative. Suggests providing in-service workshops for staff; developing team to work with large students; providing individual counseling; assisting students in locating peer support groups; and…

Describes systematic eclectic approach to counseling which provides counselors and researchers with an explicit method of selecting differential treatments for each student's specific problems and life situations. Model is founded on a systems perspective of people, in which they are seen as proactively interacting with the environment while the…

Discusses developmental aspects of children's fears, strategies that help children learn effective ways of coping with normal developmental fears, and strategies to assist those children who experience some difficulties related to fear. Suggests a model for school counselors that may help them to conceptualize their work with a child and his or…

Suggests a developmental model of career assessment in which career readiness and degree of importance for work are incorporated into the traditional career assessment model. (ABL)

Counselors need methods of delineating teacher needs, determining appropriate outcomes of consultation, selecting and implementing consultation strategies, and using program evaluation for effective decision making. A basic planning model, consisting of four major steps, can facilitate the development of a program plan for teacher consultation.…

Presents five steps in grief process: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and resolution and acceptance. Considers grief of new students who transfer into a school, giving up old friendships and familiar surroundings. Examines how counselors can help these students and their families. (NB)

Presents a model that focuses on a new approach to guidance objectives and the evaluation process. Compares client and program objectives and discusses empirical and perceptual evaluation procedures. (JAC)

Reviews, from the perspective of a school counselor, basic tenets of two contemporary educational trends, optional alternative education and deliberate psychological education. Describes blending of these trends at ALPHA (Alternative Learning Program for the High School Age), a public alternative high school located in Livonia, Michigan.…

Presents, as prototype for other school systems, case study of external program review of counseling program in midsize public school district conducted by local university counselor education program's students and faculty. Provides information about the rationale for the review, the evaluation plan, the review process, and evaluation results.…

Presents a five stage model (Jacobs, 1980) of suicidal behavior in adolescents, with a discussion based on observation of three case studies. A second method of communicating suicidal notions through a two-step progression is described, and intervention issues are discussed. (JAC)

Contends that current conditions in education indicate that a change is needed in the counselor role. Defines consultation, describes a number of current models of consultation, identifies problems in implementing the consultant role, makes recommendations for resolving these problems, and suggests future trends in the use of consultation. (LLL)

Discusses the causes and consequences of shyness and presents the Shyness Control Program, a systematic approach for managing social anxiety in children and adolescents. Includes a flowchart that serves as a framework for the system and represents proven clinical methods used in anxiety management. (JAC)