Ways in which an emotionally mature and perceptive person can help another with deep-rooted and seemingly unsolvable personal problems are presented. (CK)

To meet the needs of young black students in integrated junior high schools, adult black human relations specialists were systematically selected and trained and assigned within the school system. They functioned above levels determined to be minimally effective and were generally highly rated by students, principals and administrative staff,…

Lay personnel indigenous to the inner city were selected and trained in helping and human relations skills as functional professionals. In turn, they utilized an internship principle in conducting similar training programs for 63 essentially unselected hard core unemployed. (Author)

There are systematic techniques available to enable indigenous lay personnel to develop and implement effective courses of action for the students. The results suggest that the functional professionals are not simply a measure of last resort, but rather, when appropriately employed, may be a preferred mode of treatment, constituting the human link…

Makes a case for affective education based on the assertion that affective-interpersonal skills make possible continually expanding human productivity. (Author/JM)

Focusing on the rights, responsibility, and role of one who intervenes therapeutically in another person's life, this volume builds on a practical and theoretical human relations base with a view toward guidelines for effective professional training and personnel selection. In an overview of the helping profession, the first chapter presents…