Word: counselors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Edward Lashman, Harvard's senior planning counselor, fine-tuned his efficient and politically saavy administrative techniques since he began working for the University in 1975. In his projects at Harvard, this tough-guy image has brought Lashman as much criticism as it has praise. But it appears that such a style is just what the denizens of Beacon Hill are seeking...
Lashman continues to work as Harvard's senior planning counselor. In this role he oversees various projects such as planning for the Kennedy School of Government...
...follow a strategy called intervention, which was pioneered in the early 1960s by Vernon Johnson, an Episcopal priest in a Minneapolis suburb. In intervention, family members, friends and co-workers directly confront the alcoholic to shatter his carefully nurtured self-delusions. Beforehand they meet with a specially trained counselor (the fee: $500 to $750) to rehearse. In the actual confrontation, the alcoholic is presented with a tough but sympathetic portrayal of the mess he is in and is urged to accept prearranged admission to a treatment center, often on the same day. Says Carol Remboldt, publications director at Johnson...
...nearly 30 million offspring of chronic drinkers in the U.S. Made up of a variety of organizations, the movement took off four years ago with the best-selling book Adult Children of Alcoholics, a guide to the dilemmas C.O.A.s face, by Janet Geringer Woititz, a human-relations counselor in Verona...
...killing stunned residents of the blue-collar community, where many were unaware that a drug problem existed. "Ours is no worse than other towns, certainly not as bad as Dallas," said School Counselor Perry Elkins. At the trim pebblestone school, where short skirts and exposed shirttails are banned, only four students have been dismissed for drug use in four years, and a surprise inspection with drug-sniffing dogs last year turned up nothing...