Behavior Therapy: Successes and Failures in a Student Counseling Center

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largely unchanged, as did the college's administrators and facuity. College environments seem to be determined more by the basic attitudes of academic communities than by physical plants or social and academic forms andpractices.-Chairman, Department of Psychology, Randolph-Macon Woman's College. 083846/EHB Truex, Dorothy. The Journal of College Student Personnel, 1970, I1 (September) pp. 323-331. The oppression of women (usually masquerading as "protection") has always been part of higher education in this country, starting with the practice of locking women in their residence halls at night and continuing with the present pattern of assigning women to subservient positions in the government of coeducational dormitories. College student personnel administrators should try to help remedy this situation. Campus Human Relations Councils, for instance, should encourage the investigation of sex discrimination as it is practiced against women faculty members as well as against students. Investigation of recruitment policies, admissions policies, and financial aid program usually reveals a pervasive bias favorable to men students. The housing policy for married students should give preference to couples who are both students. Child care centers should be flexible enough to accommodate the schedules of student mothers as well as working mothers. Student health programs should include the services of an obstetrician and gynecologist. The Association of Women Students or the Women's Student Governing Association should serve as a Commission on the Status of College Women, investigating, for example, the prejudices of faculty members and of campus recruiters for corporations. Many of the demands of blacks for curriculum reform should be adapted to press for elimination from the curriculum of courses that Dresent a subservient and demaded image of women.--Associate Professor of Focus on Feminine Ferment. Y kducation, University of Oklahima. 083946/BBR COUNSEL I NG Breen, George J. ActiveDirective Counseling in an Adult Education Setting. The Journal of College Student Personnel, 1970, 11 (July) pp. 279-283.One counselor has been assigned to the evening division of Worcester Junior College which has an average enrollment of 1,350 students a year. Most enrollees are married men employed full-time who take two weekly evening classes toward a degree. The counselor uses the active-directive approach which stresses efficiency and focuses on the time spent between sessions wherein the client follows specific directions given him by the counselor to deal better with his particular problems. Active-directive counseling centers on the here-and-now and frees the adult client from the negative influence of his past. The tangible reward for many in the form of Veterans Administration payments for staying in school provides a useful positive reinforcement. Also, the adult's sense of time passing quickly creates a greater sense of urgency in the adult client and hence a higher motivation. Specifically, the following active-directive techn...