The article discusses three guidance functions involved with gifted and talented students. (DLS)

To ensure secondary school counseling program effectiveness, administrators should know the premises underlying all guidance and counseling programs, the components of all school counseling programs, and the major helping processes used by professional counselors. This article introduces a special section focusing on counseling research studies,…

Various attempts have been made in the past to improve the quality of American education by individualizing instruction. The most common method of individualizing instruction has been by varying the rate of progress or the type of assignment. Perhaps a more important and little used method is that of adapting education to individual differences…

Developing counseling goals with children is viewed here as an essential aspect of counseling; it helps both the counselor and the child to see the direction in which they are heading, and gives them a yardstick by which to measure success. Goal-oriented counseling can and should be a humanizing experience in which the child participates. (Author)

Author states that his best asset is the value his faculty places upon his services. (RK)

Pupils should be one of the major sources of information for guidance information systems. Present systems do not answer their questions. The author gives the characteristics of currently operational systems, then lists the tasks to be handled by improved systems, and the personnel to perform each task. (KH)

Counseling with or without public commitment was not found to be a positive influence on school anxiety, teacher pupil relations, or sociometric status. Exploratory counselor responses were positively related to client improvement in teacher pupil relationships. Teachers working with the counselors had a more positive attitude toward counseling…

Over the past several years, the field of elementary school guidance has grown in scope and importance. This monograph, from the Department of Guidance, Counseling, and Student Personnel at Ohio University, represents a recent, comprehensive picture of the status of the field. These five major sections comprise the monograph: (1) a statement of…

The bulletin consists primarily of project reports reflecting California's public school guidance programs. The content is divided into four separate sections: (1) adult, (2) elementary, (3) junior college, (4) secondary. 389 projects were conducted by the school districts and offices of county superintendents of schools during 1968-1969. Each…

Successful guidance work in a public school setting calls for an approach oriented toward implementing educational goals. A major factor in this process is the structure of the guidance department. (Author/WY)

The report deals with the influence of computer technology on education, particularly guidance. The need for computers is a result of increasing complexity which is defined as: (1) an exponential increase of information; (2) an exponential increase in dissemination capabilities; and (3) an accelerating curve of change. Listed are five functions of…

This publication provides counselors of the Manpower Development Training Program with a practical guide to the content of a workshop for those actively engaged in programs of inservice training. It describes educational, psychological and sociological characteristics of the disadvantaged , both young and old. Suggested are innumerable activities…