This book is a collection of essays published in a column in "Counseling Today", the newspaper of the American Counseling Association. These essays are written by various counselors who relate their successes, challenges, doubts, and failures; they describe some of the personal issues involved in counseling practice that are rarely discussed.…

Several topics carry heavy weight in making psychologists in the schools more indispensable. Topics of this paper are: (1) the coming transition between "school psychology" of the 20th century and "psychology in the schools" of the 21st century; (2) the critical need for education reform, and the potential impact of such reforms on psychology in…

As more Anglo trainees choose multicultural counseling as a specialty area, a closer examination of white on white professional activity would appear imperative. Researchers mailed questionnaires to 48 counseling psychology students in a graduate-level program at a Midwestern university. The surveys requested a general description of trainees'…

This study investigated the values that influence teachers, future school administrators, and future school counselors in choosing their respective professions. A 15-item questionnaire was developed consisting of six categories: (1) stimulating work; (2) interpersonal satisfaction; (3) economic security; (4) responsible autonomy; (5) comfortable…

To determine how often children falsely report being sexually abused, this study asked professionals to indicate the percentage of children with whom they had worked who had made false reports. In addition, this study examined the variables that might be associated with the percentage of false allegations reported by professionals. The factors…

Reality Therapy was adopted as the treatment modality to be used with youths at the Maine Youth Center, the only juvenile correctional facility in the state. To evaluate the effectiveness of the program, staff members completed a series of self-report instruments and gathered demographic and attitude data three times during a 2-year period in…

Cultural awareness enlarges the world view of traditional counseling methodologies that teach that the dominant society's values are the healthy norms to use in assessing and assisting ethnic groups. A dominant society counselor or therapist can be more effective in helping members of other groups by utilizing self-awareness and developing a…

Equity in counseling and advising students is the subject of this training module. It guides trainers through the activities and lessons to teach education personnel cross-cultural counseling practices to use when working with culturally diverse populations. Eight activities are described and materials, including seven transparency masters and…

This paper reviews the literature dealing with therapist neutrality or value-free treatment processes, and proposes that therapist values do play a major role in therapy. Supposed therapist neutrality in psychoanalyses, behavior therapy, and client-centered therapy is explored. The role of therapist values in client selection is discussed, and the…

This report, the third in a series of studies of South Carolina's vocational education system, summarizes the results of a statewide survey of approximately 350 vocational center directors, guidance and placement personnel, and vocational teachers on the issue of how vocational education can best meet the needs of some 30,000 low achieving…

A study compared the differences among public and private sector rehabilitation professionals with respect to their attitudes toward aging, fear of aging, and involvement with older clients. Demographic variables of age, sex, race, and educational status were also examined. The study sample included 325 full-time, nonclerical employees of…

This study compared the appropriateness of course choices by female and male counselees as rated by female and male counselors to determine the possibility of sex bias effect. The sex, grade, and ability level of ratees were controlled in a four-way analysis of variance. The subjects were randomly selected and assigned to each counselor in order…

The Counselor Ethnic Awareness Project involved the development, implementation, and assessment of a model training program. Its major purpose was to enable a group of professional school counselors to design and execute projects that would increase appreciation by students, faculty, and community of their own and one another's ethnic heritage. In…

This document, one of four staff training units in a series designed to attack problems of sex bias in the counseling of women and girls, is intended to help counselor educators consider their knowledge of and attitudes toward the sex-limited status of women. In this unit, two staff training workshop strategies are provided. The first workshop is…

Over 400 teachers, administrators, and counselors in Colorado were surveyed to ascertain their personal judgements about the quality of working life and related factors. The 87-item questionnaire focused on the following main subject groupings: (1) the nature and meaning of work; (2) job satisfaction; (3) worker organizations; (4) job success; (5)…