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)

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)

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

Studied questionnaires distributed to counselors in a variety of settings throughout Oregon. Results indicate licensure was an important consideration for 87 percent of the respondents, with general support for a licensure bill by 77 percent of the respondents. Training beyond a master's degree was the preferred level of educational training…

The fact that counselor training has not prepared counselors to develop the skills and understandings needed for new undertakings provides a problem. The authors see this problem as an opportunity for a renaissance in counselor education. (Author/BY)

The author admits that as counselors feel comfortable when their female clients choose to live their lives through others, their own values are reflected. (Author)

Ethical practice in counseling should mean more than remedying past mistakes. Counselors must give certain philosophical and procedural questions constant attention to check on the validity for the present of long held ideas. In this way emerging issues can be identified before impossible situations are created. (Author)

Presents a graphic matrix, the Three Dimensional Intervention Model, to serve as a framework to help counselors visualize the mutual relationships of counseling, consultation, and supervision. An integrated perspective is needed for the enhancement of professionalism and the increase of the overall effectiveness of counseling practitioners. (JAC)

The value of the itinerant counselor is discussed. The resident counselor can do testing and vocational and educational planning but is too closely associated with the administration and the establishment to be used by students in discussing personal problems. (CG)

This article proposes that APGA attempt to shift the emphasis of the convention to obtaining concrete behavioral outcomes through the use of behavioral contracts (rather than resolutions) and through the specification and assessment of objectives for individual convention programs. (Author)

Widespread dissatisfaction with professional counselors and the service they provide is manifested in scathing attacks by women's lib proponents, minority group spokesmen, revolutionary lay counselors, and disenchanted professionals. This article identifies the criticism, and describes a lay counselor operation. (Author)

The authors describe a program in which counselors and counselor educators exchange positions and responsibilities in an effort to increase their effectiveness and the amount of interaction between the two. (BY)