Counselling : selected definitions and references / Maurice Saulnier.: RE22-1371/1971E-PDF ; RE22-1371

"We prepared this handbook as a ready reference for counsellors in Canada NewStart, an experimental program designed to seek solutions to problems of disadvantaged areas. The main objective of NewStart is to develop, through action research, methods and programs that may be effective in helping to motivate and prepare unemployed and underemployed adults to take advantage of opportunities for stable and rewarding employment. Six NewStart Corporations operate in selected areas of Canada, three in the prairie provinces and three in the Maritimes. Recognizing the importance of counselling in adult human resource development, we believe there is a need to experiment with new methods and to be innovative with existing ones. We have attempted to bring together selected definitions of the principal counselling methods that we identified from an intensive literature survey made by Paul Girard, under contract to this Department. The survey included nearly 200 professional journals, bulletins, pamphlets, and reports, covering the period 1963 to 1969. Authors included were from Africa, Australia, Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Holland, India, Israel, Japan, Mexico,Russia, Spain, and the United States. We collected more than 800 abstracts concerned with counselling from which we selected those considered most useful to NewStart counsellors, both professionals and nonprofessionals. …"--Preface, page iii.

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