Explores the topic of learned helplessness in children. Discusses these counselor strategies for helping children with learned helplessness: develop realistic attributions, provide feedback, provide success experiences, provide microcomputer experiences, and set realistic goals and expectations. (ABL)

The counselor works in a difficult position, and school guidance programs are in jeopardy today. To develop meaningful programs, administrators must hire counselors who will meet the needs of the school and participate in the evaluation of program outcomes. (MD)

Identifies a number of problem areas in school counseling and suggests a variety of survival skills for counselors. Suggests that counselors identify and strengthen their special skills to make it evident to school systems that they fill a critical need. (JAC)

Surveyed 310 therapists to assess their perceptions of healthy family functioning and the goals of family therapy. Results indicated that therapists are fairly consistent in what they say a healthy family is and what they pursue in therapy. Age and professional identity were most influential in predicting values. (LLL)

In this article the author looks at some of the searing prophecies made by Alvin Toffler in his book Future Shock and relates them to the world of the professional counselor and the clientele the counselor attempts to serve. (Author)

Effects of interpretation and restatement on client expression of self-reference affect in a low-structured interview were examined. Subjects were 40 female volunteers. Interpretation treatment achieved significant positive conditioning of self-reference affect. Restatement treatment achieved significant negative conditioning of the critical…

Counselor trainees' verbal behavior in two initial interview settings, one each with an active and passive client, was significantly different. Verbal behavior was viewed from two perspectives; along the dimension of broad classification by categories of behavior and along the dimension of 3-6 second units of verbal interaction. (Author)

The success of career education will depend in no small measure on the input of the guidance and counseling component to make it possible for students to choose knowledgeably from among all careers open to them. (Author)

Based on material received from 20 sources (individuals and associations) and on his own opinions and those of his graduate student co-workers, the author compiled a list of suggestions for revision of those parts of the American Personnel and Guidance Association Code of Ethics relating to group work. The recommendations included in the article…

This article focuses on the problems encountered by minority students at white universities and suggests an approach that institutions might take to assist minority students in their efforts to adjust. (Author/RP)

The three Developmental Guidance Experiences

This review of Consciouness III'' thinking defines its impact on vocational counseling theory. Consciouness III is defined as that extreme of the life style continuum wherein each man must determine his own ends and where growth is considered synonomous with life. (Author/CJ)

The objective of disciplinary counseling is to achieve a balance of interests of both the individual and the group- Parallel to this purpose is the emphasis on personal growth toward acceptance of citizenship responsibilities. A model code for student discipline is presented. (Author/CJ)