Surveys 86 mental health professionals employed in university counseling centers in the United States on their attitudes toward discussing religious and spiritual topics and toward using religious and spiritual practices in counseling. Participants viewed the use and discussion of spiritual topics/practices more favorably than the use and…

Explores the challenges facing counseling centers, particularly as centers encounter a changing and unstable social and financial environment and consider undertaking a greater or lesser degree and variety of tasks. Suggests a strategic agenda for consideration in the 1990s. (Author/ABL)

Study surveyed university counseling center directors to identify job tasks and management practices. Directors reported spending the most time on administrative, clinical, and outreach activities. Nearly half of the directors reported spending three to five hours per week on campus leadership activities. (Contains 16 references and 5 tables.)…

The provision of mental health counseling within student affairs in the context of a rapidly changing society, and ever broadening demands as issues such as prevention and diversity are integrated into the scope of counseling are challenged. Part 1, "Meeting the Need for Basic Counseling Services," discusses (1) "Counseling Needs of Today's…