In 1970 the Florida legislature enacted into law a plan to assist public schools to provide adequate guidance services for students and faculty and provided for creation of the position of occupational specialist. The article details the training, duties, and characteristics required in the position and responses to its creation. (AG)

Eighty subjects were randomly assigned equally by sex to self-positive or self-negative discussion topic groups in which they either received or did not receive verbal comment from the interviewer. A silent interviewer produced less discrimination of self as a concept, and depending upon the positive or negative direction of subject verbalization…

This study is concerned with the extent to which senior high school students employ the constructs of race, subculture, and sex in establishing counselor preferences. These variables seem more important to black students than to northern white or to Appalachian white students. The data supports findings reported earlier by Stranges and Riccio.…

This study investigated the effectiveness of programmed materials in interpersonal relations in improving the facilitation levels of counselor communications. (Author)

The results of this study provide little evidence of any stereotyping of clergymen, positively or negatively, by junior college students. Responses to the counselor preference instrument suggest that clergymen are likely to be regarded unfavorably by male but not by female students. (Author)

Results showed that more anxious counselors were less accurate in their ability to recall words spoken and feelings expressed in simulated interviews. The total" objective test scores, combining the results of all four affective states, yield statistically significant results. (Author)

This paper presents the use of counselor leads in the theory of child counseling as developed by Kinkmeyer (1965) and suggests what might happen when different leads are employed in different phases of the counseling model. (Author)

Rokeach Dogmatism Scale was administered to 25 Ss with, and, 24 Ss without previous teaching. Results indicate that age and amount of experience correlate positively with dogmatism. Implications for profession are discussed. (Author/CJ)

Factors related to staff turnover in a camp for mentally retarded persons were examined during 1971-1977. Staff were live-in college or graduate school counselors with special education or related majors. Not being able to cope and poor performance occurred in small proportion to total number of reasons documented. (Author/RD)

Studied the influence of counselor expertness and attractiveness in overcoming opposition to career counseling in two studies involving 36 college students and 45 high school students. Results showed the expert role was more effective in producing attitude change than the attractive role and suggested the need for counselor flexibility. (WAS)