Leisure counseling and consultation is a fairly new counseling speciality that is emerging from the field of recreation and volunteer placement while borrowing heavily from vocational counseling models and techniques. The authors describe a working model of one approach to leisure counseling. (Author)

Offers 12 ways in which a consultant can be used to attract, answer, and defuse concerns from employees, parents, students, and community members regardless of the reason the consultant was brought in. (Author/IRT)

Evaluation specialists give suggestions for preparing the presentation of negative research results and evaluation outcomes to clients. (SK)

A report of a counseling session with parents of a 9-year-old behaviorally and learning disabled boy is presented to illustrate the role of a consultant in mediating parent/school differences. (PHR)

Suggestions on when to seek a consultant and how to select the one best suited to collegiate needs are discussed. Reliance on recognized firms, professional organizations, and selective free-lance consultants is recommended. Being well-prepared, planning the consultant's time schedule carefully, clarifying arrangements, and setting the terms are…

Defines construction management, lists the qualifications for the position, the services offered, and the benefits of construction management. (MLF)

Outlines Johnson's decision-making theory as a conceptual framework from which designers can work to facilitate effective relationships. The theory classifies clients into four styles: systematic internal, systematic external, spontaneous internal, and spontaneous external. (Author/JEG)

Provides a condensed description of the criteria and choices for selecting a particular assessment, evaluation, or research design. Strengths and weaknesses of each design are presented. (Author/JEG)

Explores the roles and limits of consultants in libraries, the utilization of their talents, and the future directions of library consulting. (FM)

Reports on a survey in which people who responded as reading specialists actually performed many different jobs. (MKM)

Reviews some models of the reading consultant's role and of the way change occurs and suggests that reading consultants function as clinicians and as consultant/trainers as they work to bring about change in a school district. (TJ)

Gives a list of guidelines for reading specialists to use in evaluating content area textbooks. (MKM)

Career counselors should practice what they preach and develop strategies for diversifying their careers. Options include adjunct faculty, outplacement consultant, motivational speaker, mentor/advisor for special groups, job club facilitator, seminar leader, radio host, and newspaper columnist. (SK)

Discusses library consultants and offers a step-by-step plan for selecting a consultant who meets a library's specific needs. Topics include setting criteria and the type of consultant needed; turnaround time; Request for Proposal or Request for Qualifications; and building consensus between staff, management, and the consultant. (LRW)

Focuses on relations between applied discourse analysts and professional colleagues in the field of medicine. Examines how discourse-based research findings were taken up and responded to by the medical professions. (Author/VWL)