Five phases for establishing and improving Pre-K-12 comprehensive guidance and counseling programs serve as the organizational framework for this enduring, influential textbook written for counselor educators and their students, school leaders, practicing school counselors, and state or district supervisors. The fifth edition of this bestseller…

Describes how counselors in the St. Joseph, Missouri, school district remodeled the guidance program to make it more comprehensive and developmental. Steps in making the changes are outlined including program assessment, selecting a model, and making the transition. (JAC)

Presents a rationale for including life planning in career guidance programs, describing how each of the following is served by life planning: counseling, assessment, credential portfolios, career and labor market information, employability skills, and work experience. Outlines elements of a comprehensive career and life planning program. (SK)

Describes national models for career guidance and counseling. Explains how Maine and New Hampshire have aligned programs with state standards, emphasizing curriculum integration, evaluation of guidance programs, and accountability. (SK)

This guide is designed to stimulate career guidance program development. It provides an analysis of current information and organizes this information according to various program development areas. Ultimately, the guide is intended to help a school or community group design a career program tailored to its own needs. (Author/PC)

This module is part of a competency-based staff development training package which presents a systematic approach to guidance, counseling, and placement. The module acquaints the reader with the history, development, and major issues in the utilization of paraprofessionals. Its main purpose is to help the reader plan, implement, and evaluate a…

The four phases of developing and implementing a comprehensive guidance program (planning, designing, implementing, and evaluating) as described by Mitchell and Gysbers (1978) are used as the organizers for this book. Chapter 1 traces the evolution of guidance in the schools from the turn of the century. The changing influences, emphases, and…

This handbook is designed to stimulate thought about guidance programs, and to assist Colorado counselors, teachers and administrators in fulfilling their guidance responsibilities to the public. A brief history and the philosophical bases of guidance and counseling are presented, as well as a description of professional counselor organizations…

This state plan is a working document in the planning and developing of the Department of Education's guidance program for the present and the immediate future. The plan identifies approaches and activities to help students with their normal but nontheless crucial growing up tasks, as well as with their special problems. It anticipates their needs…

This paper discusses the efforts of the Taiwan government to establish a more comprehensive and effective guidance program for Taiwan's youth. It lists the six components involved in the development of this program, and describes several projects that have evolved out of this effort. The core of the "Six Year Project of School Guidance…

This monograph describes how the comprehensive guidance model is transforming elementary-secondary school guidance and counseling programs in schools across the country. It incorporates the ideas and experiences of 12 guidance program developers in the actual use of the comprehensive guidance model in diverse school and cultural settings. The book…

A survey was conducted to determine the nature of career education programs provided for gifted/talented (G/T) students in the West Kentucky service region. Thirteen gifted coordinators completed questionnaires on programing. All respondents indicated that some type of pull out program was employed for their G/T students. Fifteen percent also…

Objectives, project personnel, procedures, accomplishments, and problems of the Mobile County (Alabama) three-year career education project are described in the report. Successive reductions in funding severely handicappped implementation of the model program in the large county school system. Two major accomplishments during 1974-75 emphasized…

Intended for administrators, supervisors, counselors, and other school officials, the booklet provides information on guidance programs for handicapped students which help them to increase their ability to participate in school, cope with their handicaps, relate to other students, and plan ahead for education and careers. Brief chapters cover…

This text provides a programmatic overview of the practice of school counseling and advocates for comprehensive programs of essential services. Chapter topics include: (1) "The School Counseling Profession," which covers development of the field and professional identity; (2) "Comprehensive School Counseling Programs," which discusses the…