This article looks at the current literature's conflicting views of the counselor, both as a person and in his professional function. Areas of confusion regarding the functions of the counselor are related to the teacher-counselor issue, the professional functions of the counselor, and the basic purpose of counseling. (Author)

The author presents a model of the ideal counselor. (BY)

A tongue-in-cheek description of several different types of counselors. (HMV)

This article describes a model of group counseling with prison inmates. Members assume responsibility for what transpires, and structure is not imposed by the leader. The stages of a typical group are reviewed. Those counselor qualities that engender positive group outcomes are explored. (Author)

Reviews literature on the social influence model, which suggests that counseling is an interpersonal influence process. Discusses the process of counselor social power, causality thorugh reattribution, and influence as a two-way exchange. Suggests future directions for research. (JAC)

Presents an emotional model that describes the sequence of emotions that occur when the expression of feelings is avoided or impossible and discusses its use in counseling Vietnam veterans. Describes prerequisite counseling skills and related information, based in part on personal experience and the comments of contemporary writers. (JAC)

It is argued that discrimination against working women does not stop short of the counseling profession. In counseling, women are the workhorses, confined to high strain, low prestige jobs. (Author)

Counseling tends to ignore the analytic contributions of professional philosophy for understanding the nature of value and value theory. Counseling will be a better art when counselors are as concerned with what philosophy says about values as they are with the contributions of the social sciences. (Author)

This interview with Chicano children reveals a striking portrait of the characteristics in a counselor that attract or inhibit them. Their perceptions dramatize the significance of verbal and nonverbal behavior in establishing early patterns of communication between Anglo counselors and Chicano youth. (Author)

Article discusses research on women in four basic areas: counselor bias, demographic changes, sex differences and sex role stereotypes. Implications of the research findings are discussed. (Author)

Drawing on the insights of Ruth Benedict and Abraham Maslow in their search for an ethical gauge by which to rate personal-social health, this article proposes synergistic man'' as the desired outcome model for counselors. (Author)

Proposes a method which links counseling theory and techniques to current eclectic practices in counseling and psychotherapy, to stimulate thinking about ways to improve the counselor-client relationship. Proposes guidelines that enable counselors to intentionally integrate theory and techniques with each client's behavior. (LLL)

Counselors who hold world views different from their clients' views and who are unaware of the bases for these differences are most likely to impute negative traits to their clients. Culturally different clients such as Asian-Americans, Blacks, Chicanos, and native Americans have a greater probability of holding different perspectives. (Author)

The author examines several of Ellis'"irrational ideas" as they relate specifically to counselors. These ideas provide a convenient vehicle for the discussion of some typical misconceptions about counseling. Counselors are encouraged to analyze their own feelings and thought processes and to determine irrational ideas in addition to those…