A description of the beginning, growth, and present status of the highly successful placement service of the Baltimore City Public Schools, an extension of guidance service, was given. A broad spectrum of activities of the placement service will range through earn-learn programs with special emphasis on the "general" student; the co-involvement of…

Guidelines on how placement should fit into the total school setting and in particular into career education as it becomes better established are discussed in this paper, one of a series on critical issues in vocational-technical education. The school counselor is viewed as the coordinator of the total career guidance, counseling, and placement…

The students' needs and the parents' concern for their children's growth and development, as well as parents' desire for more effective communication skills and better relationships in their families, brought a realization that parent education, an important new dimension, could be added to the guidance program at Westwood Junior High. (Author)

Psychosynethetic education aims at developing and harmonizing the fundamental functions and qualities of the human being: physical, sensory, emotional, imaginative, mental, creative, intuitive, ethical, social volitional, and transpersonal. (MB)

The author presents the concepts of J. Krishnamurti whose central position is that man must understand himself in order to attain fulfillment. This view is a noneudaemonistic approach to guidance which should be of use to religious counselors. (Author)

The author outlines ways in which a guidance department can help a school to adapt to the needs of students of differing cultures and help these students prepare for education, jobs and life in Canadian society. (Author/NWS)

To help prevent drug and alcohol abuse the schools should develop a comprehensive health education program that deals with human feelings, human experience, and factual knowledge. (JD)

Describes program development in response to student survey of interest areas, and how entire staff and student body participated in the seminar sessions. (CJ)

Innovative program aids counselors to ensure that students' activities are congruent with their professional goals. (CJ)

The author discusses the necessity of a shift of emphasis in drug education programs. This shift, from drug facts toward the meeting of human needs, involves attending to the school and community environment as it impinges upon youth. (Author/BY)

The author believes in identity-forming counseling and living and objects to an educational system designed to create dossiers rather than an individual self concept. He lists and discusses seven ways in which high schools obstruct identity-forming experiences along with his suggestions to counselors for countering these obstructions. (author)

The portion of the Personal and Social Development Program presented here is designed to help intermediate and secondary students with behaviors grouped into several categories: (1) self concept; (2) responsibility; (3) group consideration. (Author/CJ)