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This article focuses on the use of "extinction" as a classroom behavior modification technique: whether or not the counselor should suggest its use in a given situation and how to insure its maximal effectiveness once it is chosen as an appropriate procedure. The authors present some questions to be considered when deciding whether or not to use extinction and give guidelines for its best use. The questions and guidelines are presented in allow chart format in order to facilitate easy and quick use by practitioners. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

School counselors are anxious about their status and identity as professional workers. They are criticized by other helping professions for theft superficiality, and they are being dispossessed of their basic helping functions by school psychologists and social workers. Solutions proposed are abandonment of the guidance model for counselors, and adoption of the counseling psychologist model geared to a two-year master's degree level. Counselors are being called upon increasingly to function as psychological specialists in behavior change and their training has become firmly based in the psychological aspects of behavioral science. Statements by the American School Counselors Association and a growing number of counselor educators emphasize the psychological base of counseling practice. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]