Peer counseling cannot take the place of a valid guidance program within a school. It can, however, augment an ongoing guidance effort by providing appropriate experiences for students and thus freeing trained guidance personnel for more specialized work. (Author)

More preteens suffer from problems of hypertension than ever before; and since personality development is approximately 90% complete at the age of ten or twelve, the need for early identification and proper handling of pupil needs and problems is evident. Using the basic assumption that guidance and counseling personnel might best meet these…

The introductory section of this brief on counseling in the community college reviews the major concerns presented in the literature relative to student counseling services, professional associations, the Computerized Vocational Information System, peer and paraprofessional counselors, cultural factors influencing counseling, counseling special…