ABSTRACT
Counsellors are dealing with issues that are in a collective sense political and in an individual sense, moral. The years between the student riots in 1968 and the present time have seen a granting of greater freedom and responsibility to young people, and at the same time a denial of their right to become financially independent and to develop a sense of self-esteem. Many students have consulted a variety of medical or caring agencies before they refer themselves to the counsellor. If one asks a senior member of the academic staff, who sees counselling as a low priority factor, how he selects students for undergraduate courses, he will invariably say motivation first, then a good intellectual standard. In the higher education situation one again turns to the teacher and expects him to create a learning environment with a 'rewards system' that will meet the needs of individual students and thus affect the students' motivation.
