Recent literature on school counseling has focused on the need for new directions for school counseling and redefined roles for school counselors. However, since the 1984 supplement to the High School and Beyond (HS&B) survey, no national data have been collected to describe guidance counseling programs and activities. To help address this lack of…

This paper discusses the efforts of the Taiwan government to establish a more comprehensive and effective guidance program for Taiwan's youth. It lists the six components involved in the development of this program, and describes several projects that have evolved out of this effort. The core of the "Six Year Project of School Guidance…

This paper discusses the center/satellite model for funding educational programs which was introduced by the U.S.O.E. Bureau of Educational Personnel Development in early 1971. The author traces the origins and examines the underlying rationale of this model in order to assess its potential. (RP)

The resurgence of interest in vocational guidance and emergence of various instructional specialists in career development at all levels have pointed to the need for a team of guidance workers and a guidance curriculum. Through this need has emerged a new and broader guidance delivery system. (Author/DS)

Presents the rationale for deliberate psychological education as a mode for individual, direct and developmental intervention in schools. Following the rationale, a detailed description is given of classroom learning experiences actually employed to achieve the overall objectives of psychological maturation of pupils. (LA)

A review of research findings concerning counselor use of time indicates that most high school counselors are primarily concerned with information giving. (Author)

In September 1969 a program called Early Bird Guidance'' was designed in New Orleans, Louisiana, in response to one of the most deep-seated and crippling problems that black children experience in elementary school--negative self-concept. (Author/CB)

Purpose is to provide some ideas to adult basic education teachers, learning center coordinators, supervisors, and administrators; to emphasize the importance of guidance and counseling programs in existence for the underprivileged, underestimated rural adults; to reiterate the responsibilities of adult basic education personnel. (Author/DR)

State legislation initiating career education in Arizona and its results in 13 separate programs throughout the state are described. (MU)

Suggests that mandates to successful programs include knowledge of work world, and its broadly defined dimensions, social changes influencing workers, factors in career planning relationships between education and future plans, and acquisitions of more effective decision making skills. (Author/CJ)

Author describes an action oriented guidance program at the high school wherein counselors, teachers, and students form a visible team offering assistance to students. (Editor)

A review of the research to date shows the overall direction of group guidance to be more positive than negative. (Author)