As greater emphasis is placed on addressing critical school issues such as school-based mental health, violence prevention, and the effects of trauma, the utilization of school counselors should be examined to ensure that these uniquely-trained professionals are mobilized by school administrators to engage these issues. Q methodology was employed…

The New York State Education Department recently passed legislation that requires school districts to implement a programmatic, data-driven approach to school counseling. This change moves the state toward comprehensive school counseling and away from traditional "guidance"; however, these policy changes often do not translate into…

The increasingly diverse student demographics reflect a myriad of needs in the interrelated arenas of educational achievement, social-behavioral adjustment, and career development, while federal legislation, the ethical standards of the American School Counselor Association (ASCA; 2004a), and the ASCA (2005a) National Model have emphasized…

Background/Context: This study investigates the teacher's role in the student advisory process, which to date has generated limited research literature. Teachers who serve as student advisors assume a role that extends beyond the more traditional instructional role, and includes implied or explicit expectations to provide student advisees with…

Twenty years ago, futurists examined the changing role of the school counselor and forecasted what the 21st-century school counselor would need to know. This article forecasts the future of school counseling in the next 20 years by focusing on expected diversity of K-12 students. Speculation on student enrollment based on projected trends and…

Expectations run high that accountability for student outcomes will continue to drive the education agenda with reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (1965). School counselors have also recognized the imperative to connect their work to school improvement goals. This article discusses action research undertaken by school…

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)

The existence of a widespread perceptual structure of occupations is postulated. One hundred and twenty-five adolescent boys from five schools rated all pairs of 12 representative job names for overall similarity, and then ranked them for preference and prestige. The group similarity ratings were highly reliable. (Author)

The author describes, and gives rationale for, a model for the delivery of counseling services to black youths through community organizations instead of schools. (RP)

This compilation of papers, presented at the 1974 Summer Workshop in Guidance and Counseling at the University of Wisconsin, Madison represents a variety of approaches related to individual counseling and supporting strategies. Farwell provides a rationale for the primacy of the individual counseling function within the total counseling and…

The Education for All Handicapped Children Act of 1975, Public Law 94-142, represents the culmination of a "quiet revolution." The far-ranging provisions of P. L. 94-142 are causing many education personnel, including school counselors, to reevaluate their traditional roles in order to accommodate the needs of handicapped students.…

Discusses the need of school psychologists to work with parents. Suggests that parents be viewed as consultees who seek assistance in dealing with their youngster. Hence, the primary function of the psychologist is to serve as a facilitator to the parents as they attempt to solve the child's learning problem. (Author/HMV)

There is an increasing need for helping persons" to manipulate the environments in which individuals function as a means of altering behaviors. Since man responds to his environments, a certain amount of tension must exist so that the relationship between man and his world does not become static, thereby preventing change. Presented at APA…

Consultation services have been considered an essential and important role for school psychologists throughout the history of the field. Traditionally consultation has been cast as a problem-solving process, nevertheless, it can be thought of as a knowledge-linking process in which psychologists advance knowledge in schools to various mediators…