This study was designed to identify those guidance functions that national groups of school counselors, counselor educators, and state supervisors agree should be the responsibility of the state guidance office. Results appeared to support functions of leadership, advocacy, and support rather than administrative-regulatory functions. (Author)

This monograph on the status of guidance and counseling in the United States is taken from the author's 1982 testimony to the Subcommittee on Education, Arts, and Humanities of the Senate Labor and Human Resources Committee. International and national perspectives on guidance and counseling are addressed, and geographic differences in guidance and…

Addresses major challenges facing mental health counselors in decade ahead and twenty-first century, including effects of advanced technology on occupational structure, changing family structures, cultural diversity and pluralism, and enlarging populations at risk. Advocates challenges be considered within profession's planning of macrostrategies,…

This paper, written to inform members of the American Association for Counseling and Development (formerly the American Personnel and Guidance Association) about high technology developments and what counselors are doing in this area, reviews the transition of the United States and other developed nations from industrial to post-industrial…

This book discusses elements of six major areas of controversy which occur between different types of helping professionals. Theme 1 involves identity for the mental health professions. Questions are addressed related to the professional status of various mental health occupations, and who among them shall provide mental health services. Theme 2…

Considers importance of personal flexibility in global economy. Says that personal flexibility does not occur spontaneously but must be nurtured by schools and facilitated by counselors in education, work, and community settings. Discusses need for new models of career counseling, psychoeducational models, testing, possibilities for cross-national…

Responds to Weinrach's article (1987) on the American Association for Counseling and Development (AACD) and its journal by disputing criticisms of the association and its publications. Contends that Weinrach's observations are not supported and that his comments are a caricature of the reality of the AACD and its journals. (Author/ABB)

This qualitative study investigates the career placement concerns of international graduate students returning to their home countries, heading to other countries, or remaining in the United States after their education. Using a phenomenological framework, structured interviews were conducted with 24 participants (i.e., 18 international students,…

Employment-bound youth have largely been ignored in the literature on careers and on counseling and guidance. Divided into seven chapters, this book provides recommendations and specific suggestions for actions that counselors, administrators, and policy makers can adopt to respond to the challenge of providing for employment-bound youth. Chapter…