Transference, selective retention, and misperception-overstatement are factors considered in the guidance image problem. Suggests image prototypes for school counselors to project. (EK)

Study examines the relationship among school counselors' emotional intelligence, empathy, and self-reported multicultural counseling knowledge and awareness. Findings revealed that school counselors' previous multicultural education, emotional intelligence scores, and personal distress empathy scores accounted for significant variance in their…

Reports on a study of proprietary college counselors, i.e. private, for-profit educational consultants outside of the formal education system, examining their backgrounds, the services they offer, their relationship with public school counselors, and the clients they serve. Found that although well-seasoned professionals, their collaboration with…

Examined the relationship of personality and demographic variables to job satisfaction in school counselors (N=123). Results supported Holland's theory of person environment interactions in predicting job satisfaction. Age, sex, experience, and education level were not correlated with satisfaction. (JAC)

This study attempted to determine the characteristic nonverbal behavior exhibited by school counselors while functioning in specific counseling subroles. Subjects were 30 experienced secondary school counselors. Data was collected from videotape recordings of initial interviews. Counseling subroles were found to be a meaningful unit of interview…

Describes a study in which 701 Virginia public school principals were surveyed to determine how school counselors are selected. The results indicated that academic proficiency receives relatively little weight in arriving at selection decisions. (CH)

Viktor Frankl stated, "One of the main features of human existence is the capacity to rise above such conditions, to grow beyond them. Man is capable of changing the world for the better if possible and of changing himself for the better if necessary." Effective counselors do this daily, rising above conditions, seizing opportunities to change the…

A study in the fall of 1988 investigated counselors' attitudes toward home economics. The sample consisted of 80 counselors, a 48 percent return from all counselors in Delaware's secondary schools with home economics programs. A mailed questionnaire included demographic items and twenty-three 4-point Likert-type attitude items. Data analyses…

Discusses diverse roles and skills needed by counselors and explores the ethics involved in counseling. Identifies four main roles of college counselors: document processors, advisors, counselors, and advocates. Asserts that counselors must be accurate in roles of document processors and advisors and honest in roles of counselors and advocates.…

The current study examined the characteristics and functioning of 12 Israeli school counsellors located at different stages of professional development who worked in schools affected by terrorist attacks. Semi-structured interviews explored the counsellors professional behaviour, activities, and coping with terror and its effects. Consensual…

The article concludes that if all large cities carry out their projected plans for expansion of the guidance program at the elementary school level a personnel shortage appears to be forthcoming, a shortage not only in quantity, but also in quality of personnel. (Author)

Factors impeding accomplishment of the role and function of the school counselor (those of regulatory intent, those associated with employment of the school counselor, those related to counselor training, and those associated with performance of the counselor in the school setting) are described. (Author)

At their best, counselors should show students that to make decisions about college choice is to take charge of their lives. When students have been able to come to grips with their values, strengths, deficiencies and priorities, they are in a position to develop criteria to use in decision making. (MLW)