This article concerns the role of the counselor in the secondary school and the problems surrounding that position. (JC)

Sexual bias, whether displayed knowingly or not, affects counselor performance. Several studies have supported this fact. Counselors reflect such bias through in-counseling behaviors and through some of the materials they use. This article discusses the relevant research surrounding this problem and proposes a model of training to help counselors…

The interaction of psyche with soma is especially important in counseling with women at this particular time in history. The purpsoe of this paper is to attempt to help counselors understand how women feel about their bodies and some related current issues. (Author)

These findings, along with prior ones from the same investigation, suggest that outcome is affected by the attitudes and beliefs of therapists concerning prognosis for lower-class and severely disturbed clients: therapists who believe they can help such clients can often do so. (Author)

The results showed a significant difference in the way current inservice training is perceived as helpful to job performance when comparisons were made between the responses of trained counselors and untrained supervisors, and untrained counselors and trained supervisors. (Author)

A counseling relationship involving an Asian-American client may be highly deceptive, because very real cultural conflicts are often camouflaged. Many counselors do not attend to important concerns because the apparent acculturation of the counselee makes it appear that any kind of cultural conflict either has already been resolved or never…

In response to the contention that many professional counselors know little and care less about blue-collar careers, a workshop established around nonprofessional experiences was conducted for school counselors. (Author)

The purpose of this exposition is to present a point of view regarding the differentiation of the counselor's role from other related helping professions, keeping the major function of counseling central in the argument. (Author/BY)

This article presents a model and rationale for training specific counseling skills prior to the practicum experience. Acquisition of these skills and attitudes in a prepracticum permits a consultation professional model for practicum that focuses upon the accumulation of experience rather than skills. (Author)

The author concludes that the intelligent, progressive position for counselors would seem to be to realize that it is incumbent upon them to participate in research as they utilize in their daily work that which has already been conducted. (Author)

The relationship between the perceptual differences of two year college counselors and administrators toward the role of the counselor were investigated. Results indicated that counselors do not perform the functions for which they hold a professional commitment and that administrators lack insight into the functions counselors should perform.…