Primary prevention has increasingly become a focus of the child and adolescent research literature over the past 25 years. Groups are a natural milieu within which to work with children and adolescents. The current research reviews the literature on child and adolescent prevention-oriented group interventions for the decade 1990 -2000 to follow up the work of previous reviews in this area, identify current trends, and suggest future directions for the literature.

This annual review of the research and practice literature related to career counseling and development published during 2003 is presented in 6 major areas: professional issues, career assessment, career development, career theory, career interventions, and technology. The authors discuss the implications of the findings in this literature for career counseling practice.

Responding to the cry for school reform and to the growing demand for school counselors, this article offers a rationale for the pursuit of a new approach to educating school counselors. Based on a set of related assumptions, the proposed model relies on a group‐oriented, democratic strategic planning process of empowerment that involves participants in the collaborative development of a school counselor education program.

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Encouragement and ethnicity were e xamined in 112 African American college students attending 2 historically Blac k colleges and universities (HBCUs) and a predominantly White institution (PWI). Results indicated a positive relationship between Ethnic Pride and View of Others for the HBCU group and positive relationships between Ethnic Pride and the Encouragement Scale for the PWI group. Ethnic Worry was negatively correlated with the Encouragement Scale for both groups. In addition, Ethnic Discrimination was negatively correlated with Openness to Exper ience for the PWI group. The usefulness of conceptualizing encouragement and ethnicity together for African Amer ican college students and practice implications are discussed.