The author relates the school counselor to Lucy, the ever-ready psychologist of the "Peanuts" comic strip. (HMV)

Describes some of the moral dilemmas facing adolescents and discusses some problems counselors face when dealing with adolescent counselees. In particular, the author mentions the difficulty in distinguishing normal developmental growing pains from personality disturbance. (Author/HMV)

By shifting the focus of their work toward taking risks and sharing ideas, counselors may gain the kind of satisfaction that will result in renewed professional dedication. (Author)

For optimal effectiveness counselors must have accurate knowledge of the cultural, ethnic, and family backgrounds of the children and youth they seek to help. Counselors working in a complex school society which draws its students from various cultures must possess special personal qualities. (Author)

Maintains that pupil personnel workers must recognize the dignity, worth and right of children's feelings and self-determined action. Argues that schools and courts have flagrantly ignored these rights, particularily in withholding from adolescents birth control information and devices. (Author/HMV)

Not only do black students need assistance in solving problems, but so do school personnel with whom they come in daily contact. Counselors must realize how influential they are in helping youth form images and attitudes. Students need help in channeling energies toward constructive ends and in developing positive outlooks about life. (Author)

Describes a study that involved setting up an expanded counseling network with an emphasis on professional service provision, and combining this with the training and professional development of a network of part-time counselors. Ethical and practical issues are explored in detail, and encouragement is given to other institutions to use a similar…

The paper presents short descriptions and an existing program example for 29 innovations in the personnel services. The topics chosen as innovations represent a wide range of concerns of counselors and other pupil personnel workers in various educational levels. (Author)

Through their drawings children provide observable clues to their conflicts, symbolize their needs and stir pupil personnel workers to action on their behalf. In this article the authors present a projective testing technique entitled, Child At School Drawings, and explain how to use it. Presentation made at Convention of International Association…

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)

Describes an intervention program at the Herbert H. Lehman High School in Bronx, New York. A conflicts class was introduced to reduce violence and tensions among students. Trust and openness increased, and fear of the loss of control was allayed through counseling, interpersonal relationships and activities, and video tape feedback. (BEF)

An increasingly important function of high school counselors is advising students about financing their postsecondary education. With substantial increases in the amount of student financial aid funds available from the federal government, state aid programs, and local and other sources, the counselor's role has been significantly affected. This…

Describes the counselor as one who is committed and communicates honestly and sincerely to Black students, knows the facts about the Black experience, enlightens his administration about Black students' needs, and has first hand knowledge about students' feelings regarding their curriculum. (Author)