Presents a model to help the counselor facilitate necessary task and maintenance functions within a group. SIPA is a model that consists of four essential group components (Structure, Involvement, Process, and Awareness). As a group session progresses, SIPA serves as a focal point to keep the group on course. (Author)

Counselors can (and should) take an active role to reduce stress in teachers through individual and group conferences. They can help teachers find meaningful alternatives to problem situations by changing the focus from "what should be done" to "what can be done within realistic parameters."

In recent years, not only have the roles of the high school counselor and the college admissions officer changed, but in some ways they have almost reversed themselves. This has called for major adjustments on the part of both, but overall the prospects are promising and positive. (Author)

In-depth interviews were conducted with 21 clergymen highly involved in assisting divorcing couples, in an attempt to discern their attitudes toward intervention in divorce. Respondents viewed divorce as a traumatic experience involving four discrete psychological stages. (Author)

Findings are organized into a four-phase model for implementing training programs that prepare clients to interview more effectively. The four phases include developing realistic expectations, developing successful interviewing skills, using effective training procedures, and preparing clients to cope with rejection shock. (Author)

This paper advocates a model which would supplement the role of the guidance counselor with the role of a special counselor, who would work with the troubled student. (Author)

What the cross-cultural investigator needs is a paradigm that will cut across cultures, allowing observation of the same generic variables and relationships and therefore a comparison of cultures. (Author)

Students desiring technical careers in industry should plan their college programs to ensure the acquisition of required skills and knowledge. (STS)

Presents patterns of premenstrual syndrome (PMS) to aid counselors in identifying and intervening in this chronic, cyclical disorder, which can be life-threatening to adolescents. Describes barriers to identifying adolescent PMS, explains how to recognize PMS in adolescents, and gives reasons that adolescents with PMS need mental health…

Discusses the positive contributions work can have for women experiencing life transitions. Describes the role of employment counselors in helping to create new life possibilities. (MCF)

Interpersonal feedback is an important component of most group therapy approaches. This review identifies feedback as a multidimensional rather than a unidimensional construct. The literature is reviewed in terms of acceptance of feedback, effects of receiving feedback, willingness to deliver feedback, and therapeutic effects of delivering…

Discusses 11 issues that may have ethical implications for counselors, including confidentiality, data storage, software issues, counselor-assisted software programs, client screening procedures, use by affluent versus poor clients, sexism, computer literacy with poor socialization skills, external locus of control, left-brain thinking, and…

To investigate how social work professionals use lay resources in caregiving and what their professional roles and concerns are when lay resources are used was examined in 96 articles published in "Social Work" (1960-83). Findings are related to reciprocal model of caregiving, and implications of that model for social policy, social work…

Eight prevailing and destructive remarriage myths are identified and discussed. Suggestions are made to counselors for clinical application with the remarried. (Author)

Refutes certain myths about adolescent suicide and discusses the characteristics and symptoms of suicidal behavior. Offers considerations for counseling the suicidal teenager. Lists counselors' responsibilities which include being informed on the subject, arranging workshops to educate others, and offering immediate support and evaluation of the…