The author contends that helping early adolescents to become more effective in expressing themselves is an appropriate and necessary undertaking of the school counselor. (Author)

The author outlines the role of counseling in English schools having spent a year in England as a researcher and observer. (Author/HMV)

To study the influence of affect simulation and Interpersonal Process Recall (IPR) techniques on client growth in personal counseling, an integrated affect-simulation/IPR treatment for college student clients was compared with a traditional treatment. Participants in the IPR/affect-simulation treatment did not score significantly higher or lower…

The author describes a Career Direction program designed to teach people how to identify their talents for themselves and how to link these talents to career fields that use them best. Talent identification by the individual coupled with career analysis is proposed as a lifelong guideline for making career decisions. (SJL)

Study investigates the relationship between assertiveness and patterns of drug use. Found exploratory use of marijuana and hashish was the norm among this sample of college students. Current users and those never using such drugs were less assertive than those who had experienced these drugs but no longer did so. (Author)

The purpose of this article is to share the author's group leader counseling experiences and to provide an outline of certain techniques, personal ideas, observations, and reactions that might provide assistance and direction for other counselors. (Author)

Development of student leaders has been identified as an important need on college campuses. Experience drawn from numerous training sessions for various student leadership situations has led to a leadership training model based upon five propositions for effective training. (Author)

Student services must be directed toward the overall needs of education. They must decline to be an isolated segment of the institution rendering services ancillary to the "academic" mission of the college and move toward collegewide involvement and commitment to fostering the personal-psychological growth and development of all people. (Author)

Describes why and how Florida State developed a new career planning course that helps students formulate realistic goals. The course is designed to initiate self-motivated individual study through structured exercises, video tapes, bibliographies and guest speakers. The instructors also provide for individual counseling and discussion. (Author/PC)

A paraprofessional and a professional team up to look at the best and the worst in current human service, and they challenge us to support the evolution of the "new professional." (Author)

Investigated the prediction of success in the six-year combined undergraduate and medical education program at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. Implications for selection policy are considered. (Author)

As a youth group adviser, the teacher has an obligation to offer more than what is available in the classroom. The most important lesson being learned is living as an individual, but within the bounds of acceptable behavior. (Author/BP)

The villain that prevents people from building a sense of community is themselves; their ambivalence about the community and their wish not to get too close to each other. (Author/EA)

Education consists of three important facets: reflection, action, and systematic instruction. Various mixtures of these components should be available to meet the needs of persons at the various stages of life, of persons in different groups, and of persons in different types of communities. (Author/WM)

According to Jaan Valsiner, development takes place within culturally structured environments jointly organized by the activities of children and the people around them. When overlap between promoted activity and the child's zone of proximal development exists, the structure of action that results from the interplay of the two is internalized by…