Describes a short-term counseling experience called Vocational Exploration Group (VEG). VEG is a process of group interaction on the topic of jobs, and attempts to pool the existing job information of members and encourage the development of more imaginative job personalizations. (Author)

Suggests that businessmen generally agree that vocational guidance is poorly done in the schools. Proposes that a retired businessman would be a valuable resource for the conventional guidance officer. (Author/HMV)

The author describes the counseling program in his Northwest Territories high school, where the focus is on vocational counseling in an attempt to help students make an easier transition from school to work. (HMV)

The key word in counseling female adolescents is "choice." Now young women may at last have a variety of socially acceptable alternatives to consider when responding to the proverbial question, What are you going to be when you grow up? (Author)

The author examines some of the problems encountered in counseling academically gifted students. (HMV)

Describes the career guidance information available for secondary school students from Canada's Department of Manpower and Immigration. (Author)

This article describes how counseling and library staff combined efforts at Red River Community College to organize a career resource center. (HMV)

Guidance services must be concerned with helping students understand themselves and their environments. Testing cannot be an isolated strategy but a tool that is at the disposal of a counselor to help students cope with the decisions of each developmental stage. (Author)

Describes an experimental course in career development at a New York high school designed to increase girl's awareness of their potential opportunities. (Author)

Describes a counselor training practicum in which the trainees spend two weeks in a Canada Manpower Centre. The program was successful for the trainees as well as for the centre. (Author/HMV)

Describes the political scenario that influences the inauguration of career education programs in Canada, and illustrates how counselors themselves can use lobbying to promote the concept of career education in the community. (Author)

Describes a short vocational program designed for eight underachieving junior secondary students who were being seen in a group counseling setting. (Author)

Presents a question for school counselors--where will jobs for the future develop? Maintains that high-technology occupations will only absorb a small percentage of students and suggests occupations in the arts as a vocational direction for today's students. Emphasizes the growth of the entertainment industry and the "cultural arts." (BH)

The recent emphasis on career education coupled with Canada's growing unemployment rate has made it necessary for counselor educators to reexamine their programs, especially as they relate to vocational guidance and counseling. The author presents his suggestions as to how these professional training programs can be improved. (Author/HMV)

Describes some characteristics of women interested in skilled trades careers. Demonstrates counselor attitudes and responses in counseling women who are interested in nontraditional careers, including the direct-discount approach, the rational protective approach, the subversive-support approach, and the expansive-facilitating approach. (RC)