ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses that counseling can be conceived of as both a skill and a human quality. It conceptualizes the task of an alternate counseling center as dealing with support, awareness, and creation of strategies for change, and we related that task to the context of a radical restructuring of society. An alternate theory of counseling deals with a redefinition of the nature of the need. Testing is simultaneously a means of demonstrating to the caller his power over the counseling relationship and a defense against painful revelations. Any counseling program must recognize that most of the initial contacts made by adolescents are to test the responsiveness and trustworthiness of the counselor. Counseling takes place within organizations whose structure reflects the basic norms of our culture, and people bring to the counseling system a set of expectations, and a definition of their problems which also reinforce and maintain these core assumptions.
