Two decades of experience with the use of school counselors in rural areas of Russia has demonstrated their necessity in supporting students, but their further development and increasing effectiveness requires a significant increase in resources provided to them.

Describes some of the frustrations involved in counseling in a metropolitan junior high school serving a community of lower middle class people. (HMV)

Describes how one energetic individual developed the role of guidance director in one high school. Describes some of the problems encountered in terms of students' needs and faculty resentment. (HMV)

The author proposes 10 rules for the counselor to follow which are especially aimed at improving a counselor's outreach effectiveness. (RP)

This paper describes a program of regular consultation with teachers at two elementary schools by an interning school psychologist. Teachers signed up for the consultation on a voluntary basis. Results indicate that student-clients significantly improved after their teachers participated in the consultation program. How the consultation model was…

The example outlined in this paper illustrates how a school system established a counseling service within its own special education division. The key administrative positions were taken up by qualified and experienced teachers while other professional personnel, such as psychologists, were employed as resource consultants. (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…

This issue begins the third year of publication of this comprehensive index to the literature of the counseling and personnel services fields. Included are 1439 entries drawn from ERIC documents, dissertations, journal articles, and books. Each entry is annotated and availability of the original document is given. The entries are cross-referenced…

Describes a real-life, workable and tested group counseling model that evolved out of the dual efforts of the Detroit Public School System and a team of university trainers. The specifics of the model and its selection are presented, as well as some early evaluation results. (Author)

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…

This project is an attempt at a statewide collection of baseline information on guidance counselors and the services being offered by those counselors in the school districts of Pennsylvania. Data were collected on: (1) counselors; (2) guidance program characteristics as described by counselors; and (3) the various publics being served by the…

This project carried out by members of the school system presents a detailed description of the town of Suffield, Connecticut and its public school system, and then specifies the counseling services provided in the school system. It details the attempts to clarify the role of counselors as perceived by various parts of the school system (e.g.,…

These 3 papers explore accountability in education: implications for guidance workers; accountability -- to whom, for what; and accountability from the point of view of a chief administrator. The first paper promotes a 4 step action plan to help the practitioners of guidance "get their house in order": (1) balancing burdens with capabilities; (2)…