Word: counselors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...juvenile crime. The program at present lacks the resources to keep tabs on all those who receive counseling and most who do participate hardly end their waywardness immediately. Still, the relationship with an inmate can have an enormous influence on a juvenile. As one youth put it to his counselor in a recent letter...
...kids are in the counseling area now, a series of small rooms filled with wooden desks and chairs. They are greeted warmly by the inmate counselors who offer coffee and cigarettes. (Inmates must buy their own coffee and cigarettes but usually insist on sharing their meager supplies.) Small groups form, or, if the youth has visited before, he may move off into a cubicle with an inmate who has befriended him--often because they are from the same neighborhood--and in the course of a few weekly visits a confidence often develops between them. The inmate then becomes the youth...
Grace Roderick, Pleasant Point's alcoholic counselor (and a former alcoholic) says, "A lot of the problem is the pills. If I take an alcoholic who is drunk to the hospital, the doctor will let him straighten out and when they let him go they won't prescribe 20 or 30 valiums, they'll prescribe 100 valiums. There are people who don't want any help, because they're addicted to these pills. It's a way for them to get these pills by coming to me." Valiums induce a state similar to drunkenness. "Every Indian who walks into that...
...extension program, after dropping out of Vassar in the '30s. At first, she recalls, "it was horrible. Everyone was very young, very bright and very articulate." But she stuck it out, and is now contemplating a career in teaching or day care. Florence Pfeiffer, 60, a prospective religious counselor, has just finished her first year of full-time study at Chicago's Mundelein College. "I don't say I found it easy," says Pfeiffer; along with 350 other adults, she has been studying in the same classes as 18-year-olds. "But the younger students talked...
Members of the minority task force had expressed concern that the new admissions administrator not be mere window dressing. They rejected suggestions by some faculty members that the new administrator work primarily as a counselor for minorities as "based on a mistaken belief that minority students' lives are problem oriented...