The author offers guidelines for improving listening skills. Emphasis is on listening to key words and word arrangement. (RWP)

An effective counselor is described as one who has and uses his ability to help others. Techniques and trappings are secondary and may vary greatly from one effective counselor to the other. (Author)

Describes a counseling program whereby 12 selected high school students were trained as peer counselors to extend counseling services to a greater number of students. Results were favorable. (HMV)

The approach presented here represents a purposeful eclecticism designed to systematically guide the counselor or effectively meet unique individual needs in changing situations. The counselor's work with a particular child or group is considered done only when he has done all that he can do to achieve successful outcome with whatever techniques…

This article includes a discussion of two counseling cases as handled by "naive perceptualists" as well as thoughts concerning some effects of empathy and respect and how they relate to behavior modification. "Naive perceptualist" refers to the novice, client-centered counselor who makes no attempt to be selective in his empathy and respect, and…

Consulting provides counselors with a process for affecting their public image while becoming highly accountable to the full range of their clientele. (Author)

Examined factors that correlate with satisfaction with peer counseling. Findings from 159 students who had met with a peer counselor during 1 academic year revealed that, in general, students were only slightly satisfied with peer counseling services. Students who were satisfied had received empathy and understanding, as well as problem-solving…

The purpose of this article is to support aspects of family counseling as an appropriate dimension of school counseling, and to introduce the school counselor to one of the many theoretical orientations available to those who work with families. (Author)

A description of an effective and innovative program designed to help alienated youth which is currently in use in the Newton Public Schools, Newton, Massachusetts. (JC)

A goal-oriented approach which relates counseling objectives to client presenting problems serves several purposes. It increases the client's investment in the change process of counseling and permits the counselor to become accountable by taking into account the client's needs, the counselor's contribution, and the resulting client change.…

This comment on the Hackney article (The School Counselor, January, 1973) presents a criticism of premature goal-setting in the counseling process. The author offers an alternative viewpoint of the goal-oriented approach to counseling. (JC)

This article describes how the detention room in one school system was changed in favor of group counseling sessions. In the counseling sessions, the counselors could aid students in identifying the problems which disturb them in order to improve self-understanding and status in school. (JC)

The program described in this article was an attempt at utilizing high school students in a lay counseling role through a student-to-student service organization. (JC)

The results of this study suggest that black and white youth hold virtually identical expectations of their school counselors; that both black and white youth expect counselors to be of prime help in educational-vocational problems more frequently than they expect other sources to be so. (Author)