| Abstract: | This article describes an innovative, child-oriented, self-development project that gives the child major responsibility for assessing his own developmental needs. With the child at the core of the process, the traditional counselor-teacher consultation model is given a new twist. Although the age-old concept of understanding and relating to the needs of children is viewed as necessary, it is not seen here as sufficient in promoting an atmosphere of self-growth. In this alternative model of counseling, the counselor acted as a consultant to the teacher and the child, rather than as an active agent of change. |
