Provides an overview of the Comprehensive Guidance and Counseling Program in the Beechville-Lakeside-Timberlea Community. Focuses on program development, including the needs assessment and description of programs designed to meet specific needs of students, program evaluation, staff training, and community involvement. Illustrates how the program…

The importance of addressing the career- and life-planning needs of Canadian children and adolescents has emerged as a prominent theme in recent studies. Studies of adolescents demonstrate that they are proactive and future-oriented and want to gain information and skills to help prepare them for the transition to adulthood. The purpose of this…

This monograph encourages counselors to embrace a comprehensive, programmatic approach to counseling by helping them develop their own versions of comprehensive guidance and counseling programs. The approach adopted here is based on some of the following assumptions: students need support as they strive to achieve their full potential, all…