This article's focus on the rehabilitation future highlights past, present and probable trends affecting rehabilitation counseling changes in clientele, settings, counselor preparation and role, and in technology. The author believes that employment opportunities for rehabilitation counselors will continue to increase and that persons with…

Although demand for more counselor educators doesn't appear strong over the next decade, there seems to be a steady need for replacements in the areas of schools, higher education, rehabilitation, and employment. The larger need over the decade seems to be for counselor educators with special skills in these areas: Inservice Training, Career…

The author discusses demographic, political, and developmental factors influencing the employment of counselors in the next decade. He concludes that there is reason to expect healthy growth in counselor employment, primarily in schools but also in public and voluntary agencies. This growth should require the training of at least 50,000 new…

This author deals with college and community college counselors. The counselor/client ratio appears somewhat more favorable than before but the trend appears to be a considerable flattening out in the frequency of staff additions. Some other trends in collegiate counseling discussed here are accountability, minority group members as counselors and…

The employment counselor outlook for this decade is good if the needs of youth, older workers, women, and the handicapped are provided for. Short-term curtailment and redirection of counseling staff in state agencies will result from the phasing down of categorical programs and from funding restraints. In the long run, though, there will be a…

The author recounts major events in the emergence of secondary school counseling as a profession in the United States. She then briefly describes present trends (group counseling, career education, and use of automated equipment) and current debates (over counselor role and label, counselor-student ratio, etc.) Issues of future concern to the…

The authors discuss trends affecting community sponsored agencies counseling persons with work-related problems. They cite qualifications and functions of counselors in these agencies. Opportunities for expansion in this area will be limited, they say, in the early 1970's and most openings will be due to replacements. For the long run they predict…

Presents an overview of the methodology underlying the formulation of occupational outlook projections. Projection limitations include limited ability to anticipate economic conditions, premature obsolescence, and inadequate base-period data. Projections should be used with caution in career counseling and academic planning. (Author/JAC)