This article describes the rationale, developmental framework, needs assessment, and evaluation of the comprehensive career guidance project in Mesa, Arizona. (Author)

The process of career selection should begin with self-knowledge. With this in mind, we have adapted a unique and creative career decision-making approach beginning with self-exploration and ending with the establishment of alternative plans of action. The model is discussed. (Author)

A curriculum for counselor training was piloted with inservice counselors and teachers. Significant gains were achieved in counseling skills and moral reasoning, but shifts in ego and conceptual level failed to reach statistical significance. Implications for training are discussed. A case for a developmental perspective is made. (Author)

Describes the Personal Employment Program, a four-week training and development experience that enables CETA participants to secure unsubsidized employment. The last two weeks of the program emphasize job search interactions. The program is successful in finding employment for program completers but has a low completion rate. (AJC)

Describes the delivery of counseling center presentations to college students via cable television. Discusses the development of the first tape, which was on career development, and detailed other uses of videotapes. Future plans include use of cable television in health education and financial aid as well as career planning. (JAC)

Proposes curriculum development in school counseling as a possible solution to a number of contemporary problems in the field. Discusses major elements including the need for appropriate materials, research and training to allow counseling to be taught by counseling instructors as a regular school subject. (Author/JAC)

The authors pull together a wide variety of practical methods and media for implementing career guidance programs from kindergarten through maturity. They draw on their extensive work with ERIC-CAPS and summarize several developmental strategies that might be used by teachers, counselors, or program developers. (Author)

This article presents one approach to organizing a program in psychological education. The sequential model presented here translates the scientific method of inquiry into humanistic terms. This trumpet'' model provides a guide for counselors to examine their personal concerns and goals in psychological education. (Author)

An eight-session Relationship Skills Training program was developed for college students who have difficulty in meeting others and establishing close personal relationships. The major components of each session (i.e., introduction, cognitive restructuring, skills training, and homework) are described, and results of the initial offering of the…

It is suggested that career counseling curricula, developed and taught by counselors, may effectively meet the needs of women reentering college. Specific components for the development of curricula are discussed. (Author)

Any interview in which the client and counselor come from widely different cultures becomes a cross-cultural interview. The attempt is to train counselors in specific skills--even beyond those proven counselor skills from any one of the several theoretical orientations--that will help the counselors communicate with culturally different clients.…

The growing emphasis on organizational change and curriculum intervention is given a new look through the eyes of a change process model that provides a framework for examining the steps in developing, implementing, evaluating, and expanding a career development program. (Author)

A small liberal arts college has taken a serious interest in student career development and has created a sequence of experiences and career planning approaches for the student in a four-year college. The authors describe the seven stages of career development at the college level. (Author)

Racism still abounds on the college campus. Thomas and Yates have implemented two paraprofessional programs in an attempt to alleviate this problem. Their work speaks to all persons involved in human service delivery systems. (Author)

What's happening in training programs on campus? And where do the graduates go? True and Young's pioneer work in the Center for Human Services Research provides many of the answers. (Author)