One of the main contributions of school counselors is the development and designing of school counseling curriculum. Professional standards for the school counseling profession have been created to assist school counselors in the design process. The purpose of this article is to provide school counselors with a primer on designing school…

This book provides teachers and other professionals with a highly effective, easy-to-follow curriculum for teaching children with high-functioning autism, Asperger syndrome and related social challenges to relate to and interact with others successfully by developing a solid, basic foundation in Theory of Mind (ToM). Dr. Kirstina Ordetx provides…

This article offers suggestions and resources for infusing information about working with gay, lesbian, and bisexual clients into a counselor education curriculum or for use in one's professional development as a counselor. Information is provided for core counseling areas and clinical instruction.

Most current substance abuse counselor certification education curricula do not include a systematic introduction to alcohol and substance abuse research. I believe that such an introduction would enhance counselor cooperation in research to practice efforts that are currently underway. In this paper I give a brief history of alcoholism and…

Counseling skills can be taught to high school students who enter inner-city peer counselor training programs with few of the interpersonal communication skills that are essential to effective counseling, by using an incremental approach that includes intensive practice. The following skills can be introduced and demonstrated incrementally by the…