Closing the Gap: A Study of Four Counselor Education Programs and Efforts to Facilitate Role Implementation and Counselor Effectiveness in the School

Abstract

This study is a pioneer effort to bring together the theory of counselor education, implementation of counselor role in the schools orce a person is employed and the evaluation of his/her effectiveness with others. It is an extensive research project studying both the elementary and secondary school counselor the study sought to examine the value of providing on-the-job consultation to a recently trained group of counselors from each of four institutions.