An exploratory study examined the informal helping relationship between adults seeking assistance with problems and the persons they selected as helpers. Fifteen men and 15 women were interviewed with an open ended questionnaire listing 50 possible reasons for selecting a helper and 35 possible ways in which a helper assisted with the problems.…

The current interest in using non-professional therapists to work with chronic schizophrenics is usually focused on the effect on the patients. Relatively little attention has been paid to the effect this particularly intransigent patient population may have on clinically unsophisticated students, especially students who are planning a career as…

The following issues are discussed in relation to counseling and vocational rehabilitation: (1) the process and outcome of counseling and therapeutic practic, (2) selection of effective counselors, (3) effective counselor training, (4) the role of untrained supportive personnel in the role of counselor aids; and (6) guidelines for the most…

This publication is one of two reports of the data acquired in the survey of Employees in Institutions of Higher Education that was included in the second Higher Education General Information Survey (HEGIS) conducted in the 1967-68 academic year. Though the survey was concerned with all employees in higher education, particular emphasis was placed…

The first paper discusses the philosophy, values and climate of a program for training non-professional mental health workers who can be considered generalists and thus employable in a wide range of settings within the rapidly changing mental health field. The advantages and disadvantages of training generalists are considered. The program, which…

This publication is concerned with two major questions: What does the paraprofessional do? and How should a paraprofessional be trained? The duties of the paraprofessional are described as clerical, monitorial, and reinforcing of instruction, and these tasks may be either non-interacting (performed with things rather than persons), or interacting…

In order to evaluate the changes in parent and student attitudes toward the various components of the Early Childhood Education (ECE) program, the paraprofessional home visitors were asked to complete a ten item questionnaire based on their observations of the family's reactions to each of three components (TV program, home visit, and mobile…

This report is concerned primarily with impressions gained from a course on the role of school managers which was held for managers of schools in Liverpool's designated Educational Priority Area (EPA). The Liverpool EPA Project is an attempt to create support for the idea of the community school in socially deprived areas. The function of the…

The manual describes an instructional program for the training of workers for employment in paraprofessional service areas of mental retardation. Instructional materials presented are said to require 90 hours presentation time. The materials are organized into 12 instructional units ranging in content from brief pre- and post-program overviews to…

The author discusses the responsibilities that professional counselors have for and to paraprofessionals who work in their field. He mentions seven areas of professional responsibility related to the training and use of paraprofessionals: (1) responsibility for the overall planning of training and service programs; (2) responsibility for role…

Nonprofessional members of a school staff may facilitate the availability of the school's facilities and in so doing may influence members of the community to become more involved in community affairs. Administrators may have the opposite effect. (Author/IRT)

A four-session behavior modification training program for training one volunteer nonprofessional is presented. Readings, discussion, audio-visual taping, and role playing were utilized to prepare the trainee, who then managed a field case at a private school for emotionally disturbed'' children. (Author)

The utilization of two types of paraprofessionals, a counselor technician and a counselor assistant, are proposed to overcome the current shortage of professional counselors in college counseling centers and to alleviate the increasing demand for their services by students, staff, and faculty. (Authors)

The inference is drawn from these findings that the aide group possessed more desirable attributes than the control group for the role of nonprofessional mental health worker. (Author)