This paper contrasts the behavioral and non-behavioral approaches to counseling, particularly the interview process. A brief discussion of basic theoretical assumptions is included. In behavioral counseling, the relationship can best be characterized as collaboration, and unlike non-behaviorists, the behavioral counselor can assist his client to…

Self-management procedures constitute a special case of intensive or N=1 research design methodology. In using self-management procedures, an individual becomes a personal scientist, investigating and altering his own behavior. Five broad self-management strategies are discussed. Self-observation involves precise monitoring of one's behavior.…

Case study, in which counselor discusses strategies for change with child's teacher, rather than directly with pupil. Resulting improved behavior is indication of how deviant children can be helped within the school program. (Author)

The author proposes a counseling unit adapted to include disadvantaged youth's need for immediate gratification by payment for participation in intensive counseling. This counseling setting provides an opportunity for the method of successive approximations toward less frequent payment and finally toward payment on a regular fixed interval basis.…

A project is described which provides and evaluates intensive counseling services for those students in the Altoona (Pa.) Area Senior High School who find themselves gravitating toward behavior patterns which, if continued, might lead to disciplinary interruption or termination of their high school experience. (Author)

Tested the effects on social power of two aspects of client need: perceived need (high or low) and commitment to change (high and low). Results show perceived need had no significant effect on attitude change or information seeking. Commitment to change procedures had a significant effect on information-seeking behaviors. (Author)

The behavior oriented elementary school counselor can expand his role to include crisis problems once handled entirely by clinicians outside the school setting. A behavioral approach permits the counselor to treat problems such as school phobia as a function of environmental consequences. (Author)

The group leader must be cognizant of mechanisms which occur in the group and their affect upon group members, and must create a climate which will promote self understanding, growth, and change. (Author)