Supporting structural tools in counseling include identification of specific outcomes, selection of criteria measures for their assessment, ranking of objectives, sequencing of subtasks, and keeping of performance records. (Author)

A case is presented for a radical shift of consultant orientation in the direction of accepting a client's felt needs and presented problems as being real and of working on them at a level where the client can serve as a competent and willing collaborator. (Author)

Reinforcement was administered contingent upon appropriate actions in order to reduce hyperactive behavior of a trainable mentally handicapped boy. A followup indicated substantial improvement in behavior. (CD)

Comments on article by Ray E. Hosford in same issue. (CJ)

The contemporary counselor must strive to integrate behavioral science principles with his previously established human relations context, to make them work for benefit of his clients. Comments on article by Ray E. Hosford in same issue. (Author/CJ)

Describes intervention program in which unpaid, untrained, and minimally supervised volunteers served in a one to one helping relationship with children manifesting behavioral problems. Although the program failed to have a substantial overall therapeutic impact, children displaying a high incidence of inadequate immature" behavior showed marked…

The results of this communicator credibility and opinion change experiment suggest that demand characteristics and persuasion are confounded in laboratory opinion experiments; however, the results of manipulations like communicator credibility may be entirely due to the demand characteristics of the situation. (DB)

A learning program in test-taking skills is proposed as a method of decreasing errors of measurement and testing handicaps. (GS)