The authors discuss how individual counselors and agencies can facilitate the vocational development of older adults. (CH)

Describes the Keenan Project in Columbia, South Carolina, which provides ongoing group guidance to students on various topics, including communication skills, family concerns, and study skills. Its success is attributed to careful attention to building support, using available resources, including other staff members, and following systematic…

A review of research findings concerning counselor use of time indicates that most high school counselors are primarily concerned with information giving. (Author)

Purpose is to provide some ideas to adult basic education teachers, learning center coordinators, supervisors, and administrators; to emphasize the importance of guidance and counseling programs in existence for the underprivileged, underestimated rural adults; to reiterate the responsibilities of adult basic education personnel. (Author/DR)

Suggests that mandates to successful programs include knowledge of work world, and its broadly defined dimensions, social changes influencing workers, factors in career planning relationships between education and future plans, and acquisitions of more effective decision making skills. (Author/CJ)

This article describes a seven step program for effective career planning, together with practical considerations, philosophy, and concepts that ideally merge both counseling and placement. (Author)

Incremental guidance, as a method of assisting pupils in everyday decision making, is examined through a sequentially planned program that anticipates individual needs and provides aid through marginal changes. Comments by Robert Hoppock follow. (Author/CJ)

This article describes the role of guidance in helping the individual to maintain his autonomy and individuality in a society which demands it yet makes it difficult to achieve. (Author/CJ)

There is an increasing need for helping persons" to manipulate the environments in which individuals function as a means of altering behaviors. Since man responds to his environments, a certain amount of tension must exist so that the relationship between man and his world does not become static, thereby preventing change. Presented at APA…

Discusses forces of ASCA action: (1) counselors must band together; (2) communication must take place; (3) coordinate activities to reach goals; and (4) support of relevant others concerned with young people. (Author/EK)

High school students from the ghetto have special problems that need more attention than mere talk. To help students find solutions to problems, a new guidance program is suggested for the ghetto school, and the Center for Personal Advancement, now in effect at a Philadelphia high school, is offered as one example. (Author)

Student protests indicate in part, ineffective guidance programs. Discusses attitudes and role of youth related to social change. Suggests ways for counselors to rechannel student interests into attempted educational changes. Literature survey. (CJ)

Looks at the changes made by counselors and changes made in counseling over the past few decades and recommends changes in attitudes and roles essential to meet comtemporary conditions, based upon a belief that, before counselors can change roles, they must change their attitudes toward their job and themselves. (Author/BEF)

Published articles that have appeared in four APGA journals during the past 21 years provided the basis for this review. General trends in each journal and a developmental history of the consultation movement are presented. A serious gap is noted between theory and practice of consultation in schools. (Author)

A new program to assist students and counselors in learning about themselves and career opportunities has been developed from a follow-up of 400,000 students who participated in Project TALENT. (Author)