Purposes of student personnel work should be stated in specific behavioral goals for students, arrived at through staff and student interaction. Without specific direction student personnel work will continue to lumber along, an anachronistic appendage in higher education, until some educational crisis forces its whimpering demise. (Author)

The new vocational education legislation offers much support for expanding and refining guidance as an essential program, Gene Bottoms told a general session of the guidance division at the American Vocational Association convention. Other guidance sessions reflected concern about opportunity and responsibility, as the division assessed the…

Outlines the background, rationale, methodology, and outcomes of developing local lifelong guidance strategies in four geographic areas. Analyzes the main components of the strategies developed and addresses a number of issues relating to the process of strategy development. Explores implications for parallel work in other localities. (RJM)

Discusses origins of action planning and action plans and possible influence of different antecedents on practice. Analysis indicates a lack of clarity concerning the origins of the process. Influence of contrasting models appear to remain unrecognized, and training needs of helpers, particularly for guidance skills, are underestimated. (FC)

A province-wide evaluation of the new Comprehensive Guidance and Counseling Program undertaken in Nova Scotia provides strong support for a "program-based model" of counseling. Focus groups provided qualitative data related to counselors' overall impressions of the Program, what was working, concerns, and professional needs. Evaluation…

Advisory work and its relation to teachers' centers is described. The following topics are considered: (1) differences between advisory work and other staff development; (2) purposes of advisory work; (3) methods advisors use; (4) realistic expectations of the advisor role: dilemmas and discouragements; (5) characteristics, skills, and experiences…

This paper provides (1) a profile of the Burton International School (BIS) in Detroit, (2) an account of the background to and aims of the school's three year pilot program for multiethnic, multicultural education (K through grade 8), and (3) brief descriptions of some of the educational activities and functions related to this program. Objectives…

This handbook is designed to stimulate thought about guidance programs, and to assist Colorado counselors, teachers and administrators in fulfilling their guidance responsibilities to the public. A brief history and the philosophical bases of guidance and counseling are presented, as well as a description of professional counselor organizations…

Some generalizations drawn from the literature on futurism are set forth in this monograph. Possible social and behavioral consequences of these as they relate to the work of the counselor are projected. The document then suggests some ways counselors can help clients to create rewarding personal futures, and describes a futures studies program…

This paper discusses in a general way the roles and commitments of guidance workers and counselors, hopes for guidance and counseling programs in the future, and the author's perceptions of the Education Amendments of 1976 (Public Law 94-482). (These amendments authorized guidance and counseling functions to touch people throughout their life…

This monograph is designed to assist individual schools to plan for, organize, implement, and manage their own elementary school guidance programs. Those school districts supporting a centralized team planning approach to program development will also find the monograph useful, but may wish to adapt some of the suggestions to fit their own…

This handbook presents guidelines for the functioning of academic advisors in a high school setting. The sections of the handbook deal with contacting advisees, contacting parents of advisees, academic advising, student testing and career counseling. Brief suggestions are made for the advisor's functioning in each of these areas, and examples of…