Indications are that counselor attitudes do not alter appreciably by the end of either the first year following institute training, or the second. Perhaps a one year followup would be sufficient. (CJ)

Testing of college students in differing conditions as to performance being relevant to academic achievement goals revealed that under hgih relevance conditions scores on the Marlowe Crowne Social Desirability Scale were unrelated to test performance. Under low relevant conditions, the need for approval was highly related to performance in high…

Parents and counselors must learn communication techniques which encourage expression of feelings and at the same time indicate adult approval or disapproval of the child's expressed behavior. Children must be helped to discriminate between a disapproving act and the doer". (CJ)

This is a brief summary of two innovative approaches not only to counseling services but also to counselor training: (1) the use of television for feedback purposes and for wide dissemination of guidance information and (2) the use of microcounseling as a training technique to improve counselor behaviors. (CJ)

Undecided freshmen persisting to college graduation were compared with undecided freshmen who left college by the end of their fourth quarter. At the time of their departure, 72 percent of the leavers were not in good academic standing; stayers had higher ACT scores than leavers. It was concluded that the undecided, though diverse, represent a…

The author explores the meaning of values, how they are derived, what educators can do to help in transmitting them, the roles that helping persons can take (classification and implementation of choices), and characteristics appropriate to value educators. (CJ)