School adjustment and achievement are at the heart of a child's development. Both are influenced by a myriad of factors that are complex and interconnected. For children with difficulties, school psychologists are integral to the assessment of those diverse factors and to the implementation of intervention strategies that help those children…

School counselors spend much of their time involved in administrative tasks, resulting in an inadequate use of counselors' skills and preventing counselors from meeting the primary needs of students. Changes must be initiated in the educational system to allow counselors to counsel students. The four counselors at Mt. Pleasant Township (Indiana)…

Current economic, industrial, occupational, and social changes in the U.S. are having substantial impact on the academic and career and technical education programs in our public schools. As a result, students and their parents, need assistance in navigating the school system and accessing information so they can make informed decisions about…

Questions the amount of time spent by school counselors in placing students in Ivy League colleges. Encourages the counselor to advocate for what is in the students' best interests both in college placement and beyond, and to not lose sight of the primary counseling role of intervention. (ABB)

Contends that vocational assessments should be conducted along with other assessments that are completed as part of a handicapped student's triennial evaluation and that the school counselor should be a member of the multidisciplinary team responsible for the vocational assessment and programming of handicapped students. (NB)

Methods are described to develop and maintain close relationships between school psychologists and health care professionals in a school setting. The roles of school psychologists employed in medical settings to work in tandem with physicians are examined, along with implications for training. (Author/DWH)

The changing characteristics of students attending community colleges and the decline in financial support for community colleges have redefined the role of counseling in the community college. In the 1950s and 1960s, counselors served an "in loco parentis" role, providing personal counseling, vocational guidance, and social support for the…

Addresses the questions of school counselors' obsolescence and relevance. Cites examples of national indicators of support for school counselors. Suggests the need for sharpening the counselor's role and reducing the unevenness in guidance services' availability. (ABB)

Guidance counselors are responsible for helping teachers, students, and parents understand as much as possible about the school's testing program and each student's performance. The purposes and uses of tests are important in the context of the student's future. (Author/CM)

Claims crisis in education, in part, has been caused by the rigidity of the education professional to continue in a traditional role. Contends for the school to become more responsive to the psychosocial-educational needs of students, the education professional must expand the pedagogical role to the five Ps: politician, psychologist, philosopher,…

Discusses developing adequate educational opportunities for culturally disadvantaged, gifted students. Addresses questions of how these students can be effectively identified; what constitutes a high quality educational program for the students; what inhibiting factors must be addressed in providing education of high quality; and how to bridge the…

Parents and school personnel should maintain a reciprocal, supportive relationship featuring exchange of information, resources, parenting methods, and teaching and counseling methods to meet the academic and nonacademic needs of gifted children. (Author/CB)

Notes that many present and future college students will spend more time and energy on satisfaction of lower-order needs than have students in the past. Considers the current social context, how it has evolved, and what implications it holds for career counselors and the students they serve. (NB)

Future student services in higher education which will include activities, counseling, and advising require a clear perception of contemporary students and those services that will assist in meeting their needs. The task is to further examine the diversity of students' needs and determine implications for programs and services. Student need areas…

The role of school counselors has expanded in the 1980s in response to societal changes. The traditional services of individual appraisal, career information, counseling, placement, follow-up, and research are now accompanied by the need for counselors to work with problems such as dropouts and potential dropouts; substance abusers; suicide;…