Presents an overview of educational reform proposals emphasizing the lack of recognition for human development. Discusses why guidance and counseling has been ignored and why counselors are partly to blame. The role of the counselor in contributions to educational excellence is discussed. (BL)

Suggests a developmental model of career assessment in which career readiness and degree of importance for work are incorporated into the traditional career assessment model. (ABL)

Focuses on Alvin Toffler's "electronic cottage" concept as a way of helping counselors become aware of futuristic thinking patterns, changing work roles and patterns in society, and techniques for preparing students for these changes. (Author/ABB)

Describes the life-planning workshop--a series of small group--learning experiences that examine sex-role conditioning. The exercises are life line, role identification, interests and past experiences, role stripping, typical and special days, and goal setting. Each exercise is described. (Author)

Describes British Careers Service designed to help secondary school students in their career development. Explains roles of careers teachers and careers officers in British system and lists eight advantages of this approach that should be considered by North American counselors. Concludes that, in spite of some weaknesses, the British service…

This paper reevaluates the role of the counselor in light of the emergence of career education. A number of problems relating to career education and what the counselor should do about them are delineated. (RP)

Explains how school counselor can play major role in helping high school freshman students realize the importance of making at least tentative general career plans and describes group career counseling approach referred to as a career-preparation unit. Describes four-day unit. Appendices contain teacher-contact sheet, project overview, research…

Examined the extent to which career mythology exists in a sample high school population (N=400) using the Survey of Career Attitudes. Results indicated that the sample met the established criterion for the career myths of Quitters Never Win, Sex Roles, The Perfect Job, and My Child the Doctor. Criteria for nine other myths were not met. (BL)

Looks at the future of testing in school counseling. Concludes that the level of sophistication in testing will continue to increase through greater use of the microcomputer, more combined instrument packages, more emphasis on self-administration and self-scoring, increased attention to special groups, and more emphasis on test interpretation.…

"Women in Science" presents successful women who perceive career and educational planning as a possible goal in life. Project results, in providing a successful model, suggest that a program designed specifically for female high school students can facilitate career awareness. (Author)

This article describes a pilot study of school counselors' knowledge and activities in vocational guidance and labor market information. Subjects were counselors in 42 public and private schools in the Dallas area. Results indicate that job market forecasts could be used more. (Author)

Presents a short-term, classroom-based intervention emphasizing both the interactional and value-based nature of life-role planning. Offers school counselors a direction for helping teenagers with career choices and major life roles. (Author/ABB)

Encourages school counselors to move beyond the limitations of stereotypes that view certain fields as feminine or masculine, or regard some disciplines as less academic than others. Cautions against overlooking home economics as a career choice and outlines both obvious and less obvious career choices. (LLL)