Counselors in the elementary school: 1970–71

Abstract

The authors of this article investigated several aspects of elementary school guidance during the 1970-71 school year in the 50 states and the 4 United States territories. They discovered that the number of counselors in US. elementary schools has

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

“…National support for guidance has been evidenced by financial support through the National Defense Education Act of 1958 (NDEA); Titles I and III of the Elementary Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA); and the Vocational Education Act as Amended in 1968. Local financial support for guidance has increased (U.S. Office of Education, 1964;Van Hoose and Kurtz, 1970;Van Hoose and Carlson, 1972) and although there is evidence that high school counselors have been helpful to students in providing information to assist them in making intelligent educational and vocational training decisions (Petry, Anderson, & Miller, 1969;Tamminen and Miller, 1968) there is also evidence that counselors fall short in making impact on longer-range goals (Ginzberg, 1971; Tamminen and Miller, 1968).…”