A sound counselor accountability system would collate counselor accomplishments with costs. It would define the domain of counselor responsibilities, use student behavior changes as evidence of counselor accomplishments, state counselor activities as costs, promote self-improvement, permit reports of failures and unknown outcomes, be designed by…

Responsive Therapy is an integrative model that purports to structure the use of a variety of intervention models, each in its own theory-pure context. It is firmly based in phenomenology. Beginning with a phase that relies on critical, universal therapy skills, therapy proceeds through a highly active, hopefully collaborative, intervention phase.…

The book is designed for a one-quarter or one-semester course in preparation programs for secondary school counselors, and it should be useful as well for career guidance workshops, institutes, and inservice education programs. The emphasis is on practical applications supported by relevant theory and research. Illustrative cases are presented,…

In response to increased scrutiny of public education and the need for counselors to quantify and legitimate their work, Grossmont College (GC) has developed an accountability model for counselors. The model prescribes the identification of the statutory requirements, institutional needs and characteristics that establish the parameters for…