This article introduces the American Psychological Association's learner-centered principles and provides a brief rationale for infusing them into comprehensive guidance and counseling programs. Using small group counseling as an illustration, explains how counselors can apply a learner-centered approach to their work. (Contains 43 references.)…

Leading scholars in the school counseling profession have argued that counselors must show student growth across these developmental domains: academic, career, and personal-social. This study explores the premise that schools need to realign their counseling interventions and services within the context of a comprehensive school counseling program…

Describes an approach used at Seattle Pacific University to provide school counseling students with a systemic perspective for delivering guidance and counseling services to schools. Suggests ways this type of learning experience could be adapted by school counselors to enhance school- and district-wide collaboration in implementing and managing a…

Presents analysis of guidance models in the United States. Commends 24 states in their initial attempts at model development in the personal/social domains. States that the most significant gap across models is in attention to ethnic and cultural developmental issues. Recommends authors of programs be more specific so that developmental guidance…

Survey compares counselors' perceptions of their comprehensive guidance and counseling programs (CGCPs). Results revealed a moderate relationship between how involved counselors are with the development and implementation of the CGCP and the level of importance they ascribe to their program. Task concerns were a significant predictor of…

The work of establishing comprehensive guidance programs nationwide has advanced significantly during the past two decades; however, the legacy of traditional organizational models continues to define counselor's jobs. The significant features of comprehensive programs are reviewed. Survey results concerning implementation of the comprehensive…

Given the paucity of information distinguishing the most salient and well-researched guidance curricula and resources, the overall goals of this article were, first, to investigate national trends in the use of curriculum materials within the context of comprehensive guidance and counseling programs and, second, to offer pre-service and in-service…