GUIDANCE: A Constellation of Services

What Price Professionalization?

“…We have a conflict regarding the kind of fictionalized, glamorized image of the school counselor that we are going to accept and project. (This seems to be the basis of the disagreement between Hoyt [3] and Patterson [6].) Is the idealized school counselor to be a psychologist working in the schools or is he to be an educator with a specialized guidance assignment?…”

Chapter II: Elementary and Secondary School Programs

“…McCully (1962) also proposed that the term counseling services replace the term guidance services. Hoyt (1962), however, disagreed. He proposed a constellation of guidance services, but only in a school setting; whereas McCully would accept a team of workers representing pupil personnel services, but would feel that it would be futile to try to bring them together in a profession.…”

Guidance: A multi-service model of helping

“…Nevertheless, virtually all authors perceive guidance as a generic concept that organically links and integrates various helping modalities; in contrast, counseling, appraisal, information, etc., are identified as specific services that function within the perimeter of guidance (Byrne, 1977;Drapela, 1979;Hoyt, 1962;Jones, Stefflre, and Stewart, 1970;Roeber, Walz, and Smith, 1969).…”

“…In charting the mission of American school guidance, Hoyt (1962) coined the phrase: guidance is 'a constellation of services.' In the early stages the constellation was rather simple: individual counseling; appraisal, mostly by means of psychological tests; educational and occupational information; career planning and placement; and self-evaluation of the guidance program in terms of outcomes.…”