Review of Counseling techniques in adult education

Abstract

Reviews the book, Counseling techniques in adult education by Paul E. Klein and Ruth E. Moffitt (1946). Here is an excellent outline of the organization, promotion and conduct of a personnel program in a public adult evening school system. The authors have drawn upon their experience as director and counselor, respectively, in adult schools of San Diego, California, with corroborating quotations and citations from pertinent authoritative literature in the field of guidance. The book's chief appeal will be to administrators and counselors in adult education for whom it gleans proven principles and practices, more extensively developed by other authors for day school personnel workers. Its applicability to social agencies, churches, veterans organizations, is merely suggested. The title leads the reader to expect a full discussion of counseling techniques but half of the book emphasizes the machinery of guidance in an adult evening school even after acknowledging that "counseling is only one phase of guidance". The professional counselor of adults will welcome this book as evidence of an awakening to the need for personnel service in the expanding field of public adult education. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved)