Counselors should strive to improve perceptions of the guidance program and counselor functions as well as the guidance process and resulting product. It is essential that the functions performed, and the manner in which they are performed, be evaluated through both internal and external assessment. The following steps are recommended for program…

Beginning with a brief summary of the need for practical vocational guidance systems, the author explains his Self Directed Search for Educational and Vocational Planning (SDS), which was developed to provide a cheap, practical, vocational guidance system having a high degree of scientific validty and client effectiveness. The SDS is a…

Systems technology has much to offer as a tool which can help counselors in guidance departments to develop their own goals, to establish their own priorities, and to develop monitoring techniques to evaluate their progress toward these ends. The lists of projects under development involving computers, printed materials, and multi-media materials…

The impetus for the study was provided by the widespread disagreement on the counselor's role and function as stated by counselors and administrators. Purposes included: (1) the provision of information about the counselor's role and function; (2) the resolution of confusion concerning the counselor's role; and (3) the improvement of communication…

As one part of PROJECT DESIGN, funded under ESEA Title III, a model of a guidance program that would integrate guidance efforts in the development of a long-range master plan of education for an urban school system is constructed and used as a standard of comparison for the present model in use at the Fresno City Unified School District. In the…

Based on the premises that a major aim of guidance is to help students make wise vocational and educational decisions, and that learning to collect and use relevant information is helpful in making such decisions, this study compares several behavioral reinforcement techniques for effectiveness in increasing information seeking behavior (ISB) by…

Outcome research in counseling has generally overlooked the problem that main effects of treatment may have little meaning in the presence of interactions, and that variables not represented in research designs have no opportunity to demonstrate their interactive effect. Comparison of several groups in terms of mean differences or average gains,…

Guidance administrators in 70 school systems were surveyed concerning their perceived level of authority in 24 areas of the guidance program and their perceived needs satisfaction on a Maslow-type scale. School system size and the respondent's position in the administrative hierarchy were used as independent variables to test effects upon…

Typically, the student body in career ladder programs comprises inner city students, best referred to as environmentally handicapped--by such factors as health, economics, lack of political power and weak family structure. Those in higher education are considered "high risk" by institutions because their academic background differs from that of…

The STAR System is a developmental guidance approach to be used with elementary school children in the 5th or 6th grades. Two basic purposes underlie STAR: to increase learning potential and to enhance personal growth and development. STAR refers to 4 basic skills: sensory, thinking, adapting, and revising. Major components of the 4 skills are:…

This state plan is a working document in the planning and developing of the Department of Education's guidance program for the present and the immediate future. The plan identifies approaches and activities to help students with their normal but nontheless crucial growing up tasks, as well as with their special problems. It anticipates their needs…

Questions three traditional counseling models, and defines the role of counseling which has emerged in student development programs in Illinois community colleges. Programs range from traditional counseling center models to nontraditional programs, where counselors are fully integrated faculty members. (TP)

The philosophy at the Jackie Robinson School in California is rooted in the concept that a child's feelings about self and school precede all other concerns. Students here learn to become self-directed, responsible individuals. Describes the school's organizational plan and how it affects students. (Author/RK)

Three broad counseling strategies are described that will enable counselees to attain their counseling objectives. A procedure for implementing these strategies is stated and examples of its use are given. (Author)

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)