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1969•The Personnel and Guidance JournalRequires access

The Counselor in the Elementary School

C. H. Patterson

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This paper emphasizes the need to avoid the splintering of counselors into discrete kinds, separated by the settings in which they function. It also emphasizes the importance of the counseling function in the elementary school, a function now accepted as the major activity of counselors in other settings. A number of current issues on the functioning of counselors in elementary schools are considered, with suggestions for their resolution.

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This paper emphasizes the need to avoid the splintering of counselors into discrete kinds, separated by the settings in which they function. It also emphasizes the importance of the counseling function in the elementary school, a function now accepted as the major activity of counselors in other settings. A number of current issues on the functioning of counselors in elementary schools are considered, with suggestions for their resolution.

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This paper emphasizes the need to avoid the splintering of counselors into discrete kinds, separated by the settings in which they function. It also emphasizes the importance of the counseling function in the elementary school, a function now accepted as the major activity of counselors in other settings. A number of current issues on the functioning of counselors in elementary schools are considered, with suggestions for their resolution.

Key concepts: Function (biology), Psychology, Counselor education, Mathematics education, Pedagogy, Higher education, Political science, Law

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