Review of Practical handbook for counselors

Abstract

Reviews the book, Practical handbook for counselors , published by Chicago: Science Research Associates (1945). The reviewer states that this handbook is directed primarily at counselors in secondary schools. Handbooks, if encouraged, could easily become substitutes for sound training for counselors. This would be unfortunate because they are of necessity superficial and skimpy. There are many examples of this in the present handbook. According to the reviewer, if a person wants a superficial survey of the field of counseling with no intention of practicing counseling, this booklet would be of some use; but the reviewer believes it is unwise to put such a device into the hands of a naive person who intends to do counseling. Such a person might conclude that he could do counseling. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved)