The author discusses the reasons behind one high school's decision to discontinue visitation by college representatives. The consequences of this decision are also discussed.

This article applies student development concepts to academic advising. Advising is viewed as a teaching function based on a negotiated agreement between the student and the teacher in which varying degrees of learning by both parties to the transaction are the product. (Author)

Discusses the effectiveness of counseling, the literature of the field, the programs of preparation, and the characteristics of those who enter counseling and guidance. (Author)

Women who express the need for new fulfillment outside the home need educational counseling programs designed to help them cope with a world larger than their experience knows, to help them alter their feelings and outlooks, and to help them grow psychologically and professionally. (CJ)

Makes suggestions for organizing and coordinating an advising system. A delivery system is described that assumes a general advising staff and support systems related to three student developmental goals. (Author)

Educational opportunities for the disabled adults are, in theory, little different from those available to other adults. There are, however, obvious and less obvious extra difficulties in their paths, and the author offers some suggestions on how counseling can help overcome these. (Author/CT)

The Bilingual Teacher Aide Training Program was composed of nontraditional students. Evaluation found that adult students are serious and will usually overcome greater obstacles in pursuit of a college education. With a little academic and/or personal advising, the nontraditional adult can successfully complete a university curriculum. (Author)

Academic advisement has traditionally been thought of as course registration and academic record-keeping. Advisement, however, should be redefined so that developmental functions are central in order to perform a much-needed service in higher education. Faculty and advisors will need to learn some unaccustomed roles and some new skills. (Author)

Analyzes advice giving in counseling within labor market training. Shows how a stepwise entry works in a setting in which a counselor's role is that of a facilitator of learning. (Author/VWL)

Discusses ethical issues concerning dichotomies which may occur in educational counseling in one kind of vocational training, medical education. Suggests that this kind of learner-centered mentoring is problematic when there is a parallel imperative to protect the common good. (Author/GCP)

Currently, in the field of guidance, relevant stakeholders including guidance practitioners, educators and policy makers, have identified progression for adults in education and employment as one of the key outcomes of educational guidance. Lifelong guidance is now inextricably linked with lifelong learning as a mechanism to enhance individual…

In this article, special attention is paid to psychologists' experiences of learning trajectories in educational counseling. The data consists of two case studies. They were selected from a total of 15 interviews with psychologists conducted as part of a research project on "Changing Practices in Educational Psychological Practice (CPEPP) in…

The primary research question for this project was whether a streamlined, relatively inexpensive, counseling-based program that assists low-income high school students with the college and financial application processes can significantly increase college enrollment rates. The intervention was designed to test the hypothesis that lack of…

College counselors are urged to diversify their contribution to campus life by strengthening faculty advisement. (Author)