Defines and describes comprehensive (K-12) developmental guidance programs, explains how such programs provide an appropriate framework and adult role models for raising student aspirations, and reviews research supporting the notion that such programs address the needs of rural students. Contains 14 references. (SV)

Discusses Auburn University's Library Research Committee which supports library research, writing, and other scholarly activities by providing advice on and review of research proposals; editorial guidance; sponsorship of research seminars and symposia; identification and purchase of computer resources; and dissemination of information about…

Discusses specific issues school counselors may encounter when working with children and parents who are Christian fundamentalists. Fundamentalist families are likely to be intact, father-led, politically conservative, suspicious and skeptical, and often spiritual elitist. Offers a definition of Christian fundamentalism, explores client…

This publication is designed for counselors, teachers and parents who want to improve their local guidance program and make it more responsive to the needs of those it serves. Broad and intensive school-community involvement, including parents, pupils, school personnel, school board members, and concerned citizens, is a primary feature.…

This publication documents one community college's experience in setting up a "supermarket" guidance system model. Its goals were to maximize the number and kinds of available services, and make them maximally accessible to all students. A commercial design firm was hired to analyze the school's present and future requirements. A computer…

A model program for high school guidance is presented. It is based on the idea that each individual should be provided the maximum opportunities for self-determination. Thus its primary goal is the facilitation of considered decision-making in the students' development of personal and career goals. The model is presented in terms of four steps:…

This paper assumes five basic functions for the community college guidance and counseling program: (1) applicant consulting (interpreting test results, introducing career planning, aiding the student in course selection, and explaining curricular requirements); (2) student advisement (scheduling students, explaining Senior College requirements and…

This document contains program objectives written during the school year 1972-1973 for use in guidance departments. The author explains that the implementation of these objectives will be possible only through the cooperation of building administrators in designing master schedules which will allow counselors access to groups of students. Many of…

The Elementary School Guidance Cooperative was designed to aid isolated school districts exhibiting financial and resource deficiencies in the area of elementary guidance. There were 3 major purposes of the program. The first was to provide an opportunity for children to develop to their fullest potential through early identification and the…

A multiphase program (Delinquency Intervention Program in the Carbondale Community High School), aimed at developing and defining means of identifying and reorienting delinquent-prone youths in a high school-community setting, has used university graduate students as "Big Brother" type counselors to work with delinquent prone youths and to effect…

Developed by 33 secondary counselors and project staff members of the Pima County Developmental Career Guidance Project, the handbook outlines the counselor-consultant role and details activities for implementing this role. This counselor based model places the focus on personnel trained in guidance and counseling. Junior and senior high school…

Goals of the New Mexico Educational Talent Project--funded under Title III of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act--are (1) to identify qualified secondary school students at the 11th grade or earlier and assist them in completing their high school education, (2) to encourage an increasing number of high school students to select a teaching…

This booklet is intended to facilitate the development of counseling and guidance programs under Indiana's legislative mandate on planning, programming, budgeting systems (PPBS). It does not attempt to dictate how PPBS should be set up in each school, but rather to provide basic guidelines to aid the development of individual counseling and…

The first article argues that systematic career planning should be abandoned, and replaced by a "good theory of non-rationality." That is, counselors should consider what actually influences career decisions, instead of bemoaning their lack of logical planning. Several other authors respond to this idea in separate articles. (Author/BP)

Just when many traditional slots for counselors and psychologists are filled or disappearing, appearance of exciting new vistas seems providential. One of these areas is physical well-being, the prevention and remedy of bodily disease. Evidence suggests the central nervous system is the most critical single determinant of physical health. (Author)