A former vocational rehabilitation counselor for the deaf in Louisiana recounts his experiences in initiating the state program, and discusses education of counselors for the deaf, career planning, and vocational placement of young deaf adults. Also described is the development of a special program for the deaf at Delgado College in New Orleans.…

This book is intended to help the counselor learn to work with terminal patients. The first part presents historical and cultural attitudes toward death and dying. Fear of death, the role of religion, and common myths about terminal cancer patients are discussed. The second part deals with care and treatment of terminal patients. The significance…

This book reflects a comprehensive approach to program foundation, delivery, management and accountability. The model provides the mechanism with which school counselors and school counseling teams will design, coordinate, implement, manage and evaluate their programs for students' success. The publication provides a framework for the program…

This book is written for parents, teachers, and counselors who have both a desire and a commitment to help children who experience a death. The first chapter provides an introduction and discusses when death education should occur. The second chapter emphasizes the importance of creating a caring relationship with children when death is…

This text provides a programmatic overview of the practice of school counseling and advocates for comprehensive programs of essential services. Chapter topics include: (1) "The School Counseling Profession," which covers development of the field and professional identity; (2) "Comprehensive School Counseling Programs," which discusses the…

This book was written for elementary school counselors, teachers, and administrators to assist them with the development and management of new elementary school counseling programs and with the renewal and revitalization of existing programs. It may also be useful for counselor educators in preparing counselors in training for their role as future…

School counselors need new ideas to initiate change in school counseling programs. This book presents a collection of innovative paradigms and approaches. Part 1 presents articles on techniques and methods of counseling interventions: (1) Student Rights (C. C. Hogan); (2) At-Risk Students and Violence (L. Giusti); (3) Conflict Management (D. R.…

Basic career needs, management tasks, objectives, human development rationale, and implementation strategies for a career development education program are discussed in terms of the Minnesota Career Development Curriculum (CDC) project. Oriented toward teachers and counselors, the document contains six chapters: (1) The Challenge, presenting an…

This book supports the notion of the counselor as a professional who demonstrates an intellectual comprehension of the guidance and counseling mission. The renaissance counselor is defined as someone who charts a course that incorporates personal and professional development, and inspires direction, accountability, and responsiveness to students,…

This second edition of the best-selling book offers school counselors an expanded, practical, professional resource that is packed with hundreds of ready-to-use ideas, strategies, and tools. This "Survival Guide" will help readers plan and implement an effective counseling program tailored to the remedial, preventative, and developmental needs of…

The monograph orders career education program components and assigns responsibility for their delivery, stating major differentiation areas and placing career development and the counselor's facilitating role at the center. The first three chapters review the modern history of vocational choice, career development, and career education concepts;…

Major elements of the British experience with career education from which implications for American education can be drawn are addressed in this report, which (1) reviews British research and theoretical literature pertinent to current counselor roles, changes in counselor roles since 1965, forces shaping counselor roles, relationship of counselor…