Extending the guidance circle to include career counseling by parent volunteers can improve the counseling department's public image; make the most efficient use of counselors' time, enabling them to concentrate on more difficult problems and fulfill traditional guidance functions; and help counselors better meet students' needs. (Author)

This article provides information on how program directors can apply for Comprehensive Employment Training Act (CETA) funds for meeting personnel expenses. (CM)

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This paper discusses some of the dynamics inherent in the training process involving ex-addict paraprofessional counselors. Some issues discussed are the threat to self-esteem implied in the training process for ex-addict counselors. Techniques found effective in the training of ex-addict counselors are discussed and a few cautions are examined.…

Factor analysis of a test battery for nonprofessional mental health workers is reported. The battery measured cultural interests, attitudes toward job attributes, extraversion, helping person qualities, social class, and interest in science. When nonprofessional child aids were compared with nonprofessional controls, aids showed stronger cultural…

While many professional counselors are unsure about the full use of counselor aides, this study suggests that the performance of the aides can prove their value, at least in a carefully controlled situation. (Author)

Criteria for the selection of nonprofessionals for community mental health services are discussed. (BY)

It is believed that more and better use of support personnel will improve services to clients and relieve the manpower shortage for professionally trained counselors. Implications for recruitment, training, job classification, job assignment, role relationships with other personnel, and supervision are considered. (Author)

Statistics show women made little professional progress either in work or training in the 1960's. The author sees ahead a strong possibility of non traditional careers. (Author)

Studied frequency of occurrence of four different types of physical contact (touching, holding hands, sitting-on-lap, and hugging) in school-based helping interactions between nonprofessional child aides and young referred children. Frequency of contact behaviors did not relate either to adjustment status at referral or to intervention outcomes.…

Subjective impressions are reported about a recent job classification process at a university and recommendations are offered. Personnel included in the classification study were executive, professional, and administrative staff members in each of the colleges, the library system, and the middle-level administration of the medium-sized school.…

Public education about memory was evaluated with a controlled intervention trial. Participants in group 1 (n = 273) attended a symposium covering memory-related topics and received a magazine with identical information. Group 2 (n = 141) only received the magazine. Participants were nonprofessionals and professionals aged between 29 and 88.…

This report describes a 3-year research project that developed a community-based consumer-researcher training model and subsequently trained an American Indian consumer-researcher team in Eagle Butte, South Dakota. For this project, consumers were defined as American Indians with disabilities, their families, and rehabilitation service providers.…

Several points are discussed in an attempt to understand paraprofessionals in the present climate. The authors view them as a blend of the old and the new---affecting human services systems and being affected by them. (Author/PC)