Describes how older students in an Educational Opportunity Program were selected and trained to function as peer counselors and group facilitators to aid freshmen students in adjusting to a university setting. In addition, an outline describing structured activities to be used in the group-counseling setting is included. (Author)

This study evaluates the impact of personal-social counseling upon student behavior change. The primary concern was a measure of the effect of a counselor-initiated humanistic-intervention paradigm upon identified personal-social problem areas of nonreferred Black junior high school students. (Author)

The points of view of the parents and pediatrician of a young child with slow physical and motor development are presented to stress the need for better communication between parents and professionals. (SBH)

A broadened scope of career possibilities for teacher education graduates in settings other than the classroom is discussed, and a curriculum designed to prepare them for work in industrial corporations, museums, hospitals, health and social service organizations, and prisons is described. (JD)

A study of widows in metropolitan Chicago documents the failure of community resources in providing support for women trying to rebuild their lives after becoming widowed and at the present time, resulting in dependence upon children and friends, or else in relatively unsupported lives. (Author)

This article reviews the client-centered contribution to family interventions. A client-centered approach to family therapy is developed. An evaluative review is presented of educational methods developed to train members of the family as therapeutic agents, both for treatment and prevention. (Author)

Describes the "Ropes and Initiatives" course for secondary school students at the Lathrop E. Smith Environmental Educational Center, Rockville, Maryland. The course is designed to increase the students self confidence, teach them to develop trust in others and foster groups interaction and responsibility. (CM)

It is important for those working with the mentally retarded to encourage them to make their own decisions on the use of their leisure time. (JD)

This paper encourages the combination of behavioral and family therapeutic techniques within the family context. This approach is most helpful during the beginning to intermediate stages of family therapy and provides the therapist with the necessary leverage to allow for effective intervention and change. Three case histories are presented.…

Refocusing indicates a more accurate view of a developmental-emergent process. The preretirement age is a new era in which couples as individuals can begin to experiment with different rhythms and patterns of life. (Author)

Clients (N=103) completed the Human Service Scale and were evaluated by counselors by using the Client Outcome Measure. Analyses led to the conclusion that client and counselor perspectives tend to converge at the theoretical level. A critique of this article is presented by English. (Author)

This is a study of the changes that occur in undergraduate student interviewers as traced in three separate interviews over a 3-year training period and replicated over two classes of students. Student interviewees perceived student interviewers as more benign than professional interviewers over the series of three interviews. (Author)

The author maintains that counseling, with its developmental tradition, can be responsive to more of the human concerns of today. Hygiology or higher level adjustment is no longer the luxury that it once may have seemed; it is becoming the norm. (Author)

Depression is an emotional dysfunction encountered daily by counselors. This author discusses a step by step behavioral paradigm developed specifically to be employed with moderately depressed persons not receiving sufficient positive reinforcement from their environment. (Author/MPJ)

Two counseling-analogue studies compared empathic-listening and active advice-giving styles of telephone counseling with college undergraduate participants. Results consistently indicated significant participant preference for active advice giving on overall call evaluation and on the two major factors (Helpfulness of Call and Helper Likability)…