Suggests that individual students' learning styles should determine counseling techniques and strategies used and recommends use of the Learning Style Inventory for this purpose. Tables present learning style compatibility with selected counseling objectives, interventions, and programmed materials related to learning styles. (WD)

Results of a self-report questionnaire listing eight job activities showed that staff counselors in colleges and universities across the country spend about half their time in direct counseling services. Respondents use about 90 percent of their time providing direct personal service (method) focused on an individual (target) for either…

To ensure secondary school counseling program effectiveness, administrators should know the premises underlying all guidance and counseling programs, the components of all school counseling programs, and the major helping processes used by professional counselors. This article introduces a special section focusing on counseling research studies,…

This study examines, expecially for the rural district, ways to increase the effectiveness of college counseling for the whole community. The counselor often wants to refer an individual to a more specialized agency. Such referral is hard to make even in an urban setting, where the existing agencies are usually overcrowded, and worse in a rural…

Various attempts have been made in the past to improve the quality of American education by individualizing instruction. The most common method of individualizing instruction has been by varying the rate of progress or the type of assignment. Perhaps a more important and little used method is that of adapting education to individual differences…

This handbook provides educational, vocational and resource information to aid teachers, advisors, and counselors in guiding Indian students. Information presented includes the cultural dilemma, Wisconsin's Indians today, Wisconsin Indian tribes, counseling techniques, economic assistance, educational opportunities, state resources and books…

This paper is designed to help educators understand the conditions under which school counselors can make their greatest contributions to educational excellence. Ultimately, the sole justification for the presence of the school counselor is that his work contributes directly to both the specific and broad purposes of education. The author suggests…

The author proposes a redefinition of schooling, making it possible for the guidance function to become part of the curriculum. (RP)

Developing counseling goals with children is viewed here as an essential aspect of counseling; it helps both the counselor and the child to see the direction in which they are heading, and gives them a yardstick by which to measure success. Goal-oriented counseling can and should be a humanizing experience in which the child participates. (Author)

The author points out that accountability should give each counselor the kind of responsible freedom that he expects to develop in those he counsels. (Author)

Author states that his best asset is the value his faculty places upon his services. (RK)

The authors conclude that student personnel can decide to use the economic crisis as a means of politely getting out or as a means of defining and of charting a course on its own behalf. (Author)