Having both a service mission with defined limits and an entering clientele with diverse needs has implications for the intake interview. At Kansas State University a relatively small number of clients received an inordinate amount of direct service time. Cost, effectiveness, and definition of service limits became issues to consider. The staff…

Service agencies on a campus tend to operate in parallel isolation, at times working at cross purposes. A consultant from a counseling center can act as a liaison and resource person for a campus police department while developing the relationship between the two offices. The process of developing a consulting relationship is described. Potential…

The shift in mental health delivery systems from a centralized to a decentralized community-based system requires quality service standards from both a professional and a service implementation viewpoint. The present paper sets forth the basic and preliminary structure for standards for crisis outreach services. Definitions are presented which…

Career Tracks is an alternative for college and university career centers experiencing an increased demand for services in a time of reduced financial and human resources; committed to providing a quality practical training experience for those joining the career services profession; and seeking to establish a meaningful and highly visible…

The author discusses a short-term delivery model which forms the essential mode of operation at the counseling center at Rhode Island College. He prefaces his discription of the model by indicating that not all clients, problems or counselors are amenable to this short-term approach. There are three steps or elements in the delivery model: 1)…

Counseling centers from 87 four-year colleges and universities completed the College Counseling Center Role and Function Survey (CCRF). This survey is designed to measure agreement and disagreement, and rank 14 functions of a university counseling center in order of importance. Participants were asked to identify their top five responsibilities.…

This symposium explores the general roles and functions of a college counseling center and of the professional staff within it. Contributors to the symposium discussed the role of the director, the counseling psychologist, the clinical psychologist, the psychiatrist, and the sociologist in fostering positive mental health on college campuses. The…

The value of the college counseling center has been to symbolize the concern for students of the basically depersonalized institutional bureaucracy. The center has permitted others on campus to avoid becoming involved with students. By localizing the problems which are presented by clients within the clients themselves, counselors defuse any…

The Learning Skills Center (LSC) of Whatcom, Washington, Community College is a service, not a place. The college campus is the whole county and the LSC is offered in more than one location in the county. The disadvantages of the scattered-campus LSC include complicated decentralized record-keeping, the necessity of duplicated services and…

Guidelines on how placement should fit into the total school setting and in particular into career education as it becomes better established are discussed in this paper, one of a series on critical issues in vocational-technical education. The school counselor is viewed as the coordinator of the total career guidance, counseling, and placement…

This study examined and sought to clarify several major issues related to Adult Children of Alcoholics (ACA) and the notion that they are at increased risk for developing problems with alcohol. The study involved a questionnaire survey of randomly selected university counseling centers in regard to a variety of ACA issues. A total of 102…

The assured guidance and counseling services that are provided to the students of the Spokane, Washington School District are based on identified needs, with a building plan established that carries out services to all students. For seventh and eighth graders opportunities are provided for personal and career counseling; support groups; student…

This paper describes the planning and implementation of a Career Resource Center. Although this model was designed specifically for one community college, it offers a good guide to other groups interested in establishing such a center. This paper was presented at the C.G.C.A. Convention (Vancouver, B.C., June 1975) as part of a slide presentation;…

The Simmons College Career Planning and Counseling Center is a training site for counseling psychology interns who want to gain experience in counseling late adolescent and adult women. This paper describes the model for training counselors of women, developed at Simmons College. The development of the program is discussed, and the four goals of…

This document outlines the steps necessary to develop computer-based student service programs that will improve service quality and alleviate the problems associated with staff shortages and heavy case loads. The analysis phase of the process entails that the project manager complete the following steps: (1) define the problem; (2) conduct a…