This article suggests the application of anticipatory intervention principles in schools to meet the psychological needs of teachers, pupils, and parents as well as of the school as an organizational system for coping with extreme stress caused by either natural or man-made disaster. (Author)

Systematic Human Relations Training (SHRT) is predicated on the basic assumption that there are certain core helper-offered conditions that are necessary in a helping relationship, i.e., empathy, respect, warmth, concreteness, genuineness, self-disclosure confrontation, and immediacy. This, however, is only part of the model. The second basic…

Many authors have suggested that counselors deemphasize the one-to-one model of counseling students and increase personal contacts with teachers, parents and administrators. This article presents a model that emphasizes a problem-solving process for conducting such consultation interviews. (Author)

Counseling flourishes best in the community college climate when it is congruent with that climate. A community college model of counseling must be interdependent, interactive, proactive, and client-centered. The structure of counseling services needs to evolve from the unique dynamics of each campus. (Author)

Depression is an emotional dysfunction encountered daily by counselors. This author discusses a step by step behavioral paradigm developed specifically to be employed with moderately depressed persons not receiving sufficient positive reinforcement from their environment. (Author/MPJ)

Using his psychobiography of Frederick Douglass as an example, the author describes how such material may be used to teach psychoanalytic developmental theory to parents who are enrolled in social welfare programs. (Author)

The authors present seven specific criteria for judging effective goal setting in counseling. These are described as goals which have been mutually agreed upon, promote achievement, eliminate self-defeating behaviors, and are success-oriented, quantifiable, behavioral, and understandable by the client. (Author/HLM)

An experimental program is described which was designed to train non-urban housewives for paid employment as paraprofessional peer counselors. A flow chart traces the origin of the project back to 1969, when the future project director recognized the mental health needs of a variety of non-urban housewives of all ages. The resulting peer counselor…

The author present a five-stage intervention model to be used in counseling with couples. The model stages include structuring, observation and assessment, interruption of the system, deviation and amplification, and responding to individuation. (Author/HLM)

The authors describe and illustrate a procedure through which the effectiveness and efficiency of intervention can be measured objectively by the practitioner. (Author)

This article describes a model for counseling minority students that addresses the problems of traditional college and university services being primarily oriented toward white students and being offered mostly by white staff members. (Author/HLM)

This paper describes the results of some same-college-age peer tutoring experiments. It is based on a theoretical model that calls for greater satisfaction and performance to result from being assigned the role of tutor than of tutee, and under equitable (status-congruent) rather than inequitable conditions. Same-sex tutoring pairs were formed of…

Because feelings workers experience as part of counter-transference may affect attitudes toward clients and their performance of casework, such feelings are the concern of supervisors and workers. An exercise which has been used successfully in the exploration by worker and supervisor of feelings that are nontherapeutic is presented. (Author)

The author describes a three-step technique for helping couples communicate better with each other. This technique involves an acknowledgement of verbal renunciation of the right to vent anger through fighting, and a request for help. (Author/HLM)

The children facing divorce program began last year and was built on the talents of an interdisciplinary staff. Included are experts in client-centered counseling, sociometry and psychodrama, Gestalt and TA, behavior modification, and various eclectic approaches to family therapy. (Author)