This article focuses on the implementation of the goals of psychological education through guidance. (Author)

The approach presented here represents a purposeful eclecticism designed to systematically guide the counselor or effectively meet unique individual needs in changing situations. The counselor's work with a particular child or group is considered done only when he has done all that he can do to achieve successful outcome with whatever techniques…

Most counselors in this study tended to communicate real interest and concern only if the client is in obvious distress; they indicated such interest on the goal checklist by checking a relatively large number of goals. (Author)

This research effort presents (a) a model for viewing counseling theories and (b) data regarding the similarities and differences among selected counseling theorists on two dimensions: a process dimension and a goal dimension. (Author)

Stresses the role of counseling in the area of career development. Compares the term vocation, as a limited term, to the concept of career development which opens the door to a lifetime experience. (ML)

The column focuses on practical procedures that counselors have found effective in their work. (Author)

For a creative counseling situation to occur, the counselor must cultivate a positive climate that can encourage the child's unique spontaneity, wonder, and feelings. The attitude and the climate that the counselor establishes in a counseling relationship are possible because the counselor himself has undergone his own search for meaning. Because…

The author discusses the changing technological society and its forced change on counseling psychology. He challenges the notion that psychologists need to spend their time on changing individuals; institutions are difficult to change. He forwards the need for new methods and a broadening of the settings in which psychologists work. (Author)

Virtually all counseling is governed by implicit contracts that define both treatment goals and procedures and the client-counselor relationship. Discusses the implications of both types of contracts for counselors, presents a rationale for making these contracts deliberate and overt, and suggests guidelines. (Author)

Provides overview and critique of rehabilitation counselor roles and functions studies. Recommends future rehabilitation research efforts be directed toward solving more important theoretical and practical research questions. (Author/CM)

Examines the underlying factors of the Association of Multicultural Counseling and Development's (AMCD) Multicultural Competencies. Surveys 151 professional counselors on items reflecting AMCD's multicultural competencies and Explanatory Statements. An exploratory factor analysis reveals five multicultural competencies factors: Awareness,…

Examines the evolution of the test and measurement field and the growing edumetric trend as it relates to counselors' skill level. Discusses three competencies that counselors must use for adult assessments at personal and career intake: training in good test-use practices, awareness of the shift in education from psychometric to edumetric models,…

Study seeks to identify groups of students who differed in their patterns of expectations about counseling and then to relate those groups to personality, as organized by the Five Factor Model (FFM). A brief interpretation is offered of each cluster that integrates information based on expectation scores and the significant personality functions.…

The mother's reaction to the disclosure of sexual abuse is often dramatic and her particular type of response in turn affects the daughter's coping mechanisms to deal with the abuse and the disclosure. The type of symptoms developed are thus considered in part dependent on the mother's reaction. Mothers of children who have been sexually abused…