Describes a guidance center designed by the counselors where most counseling activities can take place; where guidance reference materials are available to all; and which allows an open, team approach to guidance services. (Author)

Edited version of a guest panel discussion for a class in "Guidance in the Secondary School." Which discusses role of the high school counselor. (Author)

The author of this article feels that there is a great need for more directors who are oriented toward counselor education, and he focuses on three areas in which this type of director can have a great impact on school counseling. (Author)

Assesses and summarizes core aspects of the career development of American youth. A major finding is the sharp contrast between students' need for help with career planning and the help they have been receiving. (Author)

Describes a program wherein four adolescent boys participated in a six-session group that utilized transactional analysis principles. Homework exercises were assigned to the participants at the end of each session. Concludes that the structured, time-limited transactional analysis group approach is useful in working with adolescents. (Author/HMV)

This article is a series of excerpts from 11 papers which the editors requested from foreign colleagues who visited the U.S. Particularily emphasized are the points of difference and similarity between what they see in their own countries and what they see here. (HMV)

Describes improvements in the guidance program at one high school after three major changes were instituted to attain greater flexibility. The changes were: (1) allowing students to choose their counselors; (2) allowing counselors to arrange their own schedules; and (3) recruiting volunteers from the community to help with clerical duties. (HMV)

This article presents a way of using John Holland's Self-Directed Search as an illustration of how such an inventory can be employed dynamically within a developmental career counseling framework. Use is discussed in terms of environmental exploration, self-exploration, and integration of information. (Author)

Pupil personnel services and student personnel services are compared on organizational patterns, professionalization problems, and relationship to counseling. Future prospects for both services have inherent promise. (Author)

The fact that 15 percent of our child and adolescent population suffers from serious mental health problems requires that we reexamine our traditional system for delivering services. The author examines existing patterns of counseling service in the light of those functions mental health workers should be able to perform. (Author)

There is no provision in career education for formally fostering such general attitudes as a sense of agency and a feeling of self-esteem or such basic skills as time management and interpersonal cooperation. This article discusses the need for providing basic attitude and skill training. (Author)

Describes a program in which high school students were given the opportunity to discuss mutual problems in a group setting with professional supervision. (RP)

Recognizing that counselors, as well as clients, need easier access to better occupational information than either can find now, a few public schools, colleges, and community agencies have assigned one or more persons to become specialists in occupational information. The authors present a model for this type of specialist. (Author/BY)

The attitudes of counselors and college deans were studied to determine how they use information about a nonacademic personality problem, or sexual or legal misbehavior in a college admissions procedure. The author raises questions regarding the rationale, ethics, and legal basis of the behavior of counselors and admissions deans. (BY)

Discusses the reorientation of school guidance to involve teachers and assesses the attitudes of secondary vocational teachers toward school guidance systems. Teachers believe career guidance is important; however, they have an unfavorable disposition toward the adequacy of school guidance systems in providing students with career guidance.…