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)

The Widowed Service Line, a mutual help program in metropolitan Boston that provided service by telephone, effectively meeting the various problems and needs of differing stages of widowhood, is described. (Author)

The author maintains that the counseling profession needs to reexamine its present approach to training counselors. Current training programs are not preparing counselors to work effectively with clients from all sectors of the population. (Author/HMV)

The helping students completed a training course dealing with topics of communication, sensitivity, and resources. They had definite objectives for both themselves and the program. In implementation, the students tutored, oriented, ran projects, helped counselors and the administrative staff, answered student questions, and provided various other…

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)

Family network intervention is a therapeutic approach aiming to mobilize family and friendship support systems in a collaborative effort to solve a crisis. A team of therapists helps the family and its extended social system become involved in a networking process consisting of six distinct phases. (Author)

In an effort to "treat" the growing death concerns of many medical staffs, an experiential death and dying lab was created. Its evolution to meet changing needs is discussed, as well as future potential for work in this area. (Author)

Describes an intergenerational service program designed to use the skills of each generation to meet the needs of the other. Reviews screening, training, and a variety of placements for the teenage and older adult participants and discusses ongoing program benefits. (Author/NRB)

An association of families of children with leukemia, the Family Leukemia Association (FLA), was recently established in Toronto. This paper discusses (a) philosophy of the FLA; (b) formative years of this organization; (c) problems encountered by leukemic children and their families; and (d) the FLA's past and future educational and social…

This report details the purpose and development of a student volunteer program at the University of Florida which evolved from the idea that students who volunteered to serve as informal helpers would be an effective force in orienting freshman students. (Author)

The Gestalt techniques of staying in the present, focusing on self-awareness, using fantasy, and experimenting with opposites can facilitate working with critical rehabilitation problems. Adapting the Gestalt approach would provide trained counselors with the opportunity to add to their helping repertoire. (Author)

Describes Community Sex Information, Inc. (CSI), a nonprofit educational organization, staffed by professionals and volunteers in New York City, which provides accurate sex information in a nonjudgmental and supportive manner. One of its major programs is a telephone sex information service. (Author/HMV)

Describes a program of peer counseling that met with successful results, helping not only the counselees but the counselors as well. (HMV)

Describes a program of peer group counseling. The program was instituted with the aim of improving self-concept and facilitating better interpersonal relationships both for peer counselors and counselees within the group setting. (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)