The present discussion points to the need for further inquiry in the area of the guidance team process. The author enumerates weaknesses of the team approach and suggests that the helping professions need to place more emphasis on prevention. (Author/BY)

School social work has short circuited its total effectiveness as the result of nearly exclusive attention to individuals, groups, or situations that fall within the many sided definition of the problem." Attention is directed toward appropriate references in the literature of social work that relate to the dilemma. (Author)