This OU Reader looks at how guidance and counselling in the context of learning is developing. It focuses on the different types of guidance and counselling in learning available to students and practitioners alike.

Taking issue: introducing debates in guidance and counselling in learning PART I Ethics and equity 1 Ethical issues in counselling in education 2 Ethical issues in workplace counselling 3 Gender and educational guidance: questions of feminist practice 4 Careers guidance and ethnic minorities in Holland and Britain: confronting fear and anger 5 After the Odyssey: new roles for Mentor PART II Modes of delivery 6 The tutorial relationship 7 Counselling in groups 8 Telephone counselling 9 Guidance and counselling in The Open University 10 British systems of careers software: past and present 11 Information technology in careers education and guidance: an historical perspective, 1970-1997 PART III Accessibility, client-centredness and impartiality 12 Guidance, access and networking 13 A whole-school approach to guidance 14 Guidance and retention of mature students in further and higher education 15 The interpersonal relationship in the facilitation of learning 16 Putting problems in context: the family and the school 17 Impartiality in adult guidance: a Scottish study 18 Guidance in the workplace: principles under pressure