The key subject on the psychological approach to delinquency has been put on the clarification of character traits. But in order to clarify the characteristics of delinquents in our modern society, it is necessary to study their valuesystems. Resolving that problem, we must pay attention to the next points.

1. It is a prerequisite to standardize the real modes of the value systems which are held by the people in general. Moreover, we must take care of the various contradictory facts of value system which are found between generations, communities, and stratifications, etc.

2. The value standards of delinquents cannot be located on the formal scales of our whole society.

3. The internalized value system in personality has a pluralistic structure. Therefore, the concious-unconcious levels and the each region of one’s life space must be considered.

4. The value standards of a specific personality are not necessary consistent among those inner plural dimensions.

5. We consider that delinquency comes into existence from the conditions correlated between one’s internalized contradictive value system and his deviate character.

What the author wants to discuss and insist upon in this report, are the counselor’s attitude toward the client, reconsideration about counseling techniques and necessity for receiving supervision.

For those purposes mentioned above, a concrete counseling case is demostrated.

Counseling was done under supervision of the Japan Counseling center in Tokyo. The client is an eighteen-year-old boy who has been committed to the Urawa Juvenile Detention & Classification Home a couple of times.

The main points discussed by the author here in this paper are:

(1) the counselor’s attitude, especially his congruency and transparency. Because the counselors who work with such kind of Home, are compelled to play double roles, i. e. they have to work as a diagnostician and also therapist.

(2) importance of desirable client-centered responses. The author puts special emphasis on importance of understanding and clarifying the symbolic meanings which are realised through both flow of the client’s feelings and his verbalized responses, during counseling is done.

(3) reconsideration of the counselor’s schematic, stereotypic or formal responses and manners.

(4) significance of the client’s “experiencing”.