Communicating ideas and information that will help counselors to implement the counseling role and develop the profession of counseling is the purpose of this journal. The first issue in volume 21 contains the following articles: "Policies and Procedures for Reporting Child Abuse in Alabama: Considerations for Counselors, Teachers, and School Officials" (Albert S. Miles, S. Allen Wilcoxon, and Karen Salem); "The School Counselor's Role in Inclusion" (Jamie Satcher and Glenda Reynolds); "Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID): Characteristics in Childhood" (Karla D. Carmichael); and "Teaching Students to Appreciate Nature as a Meditation Exercise for Personal Stress Management" (Brian F. Geiger). Issue 2 contains these articles: "The Candidates' Perspectives of Structured Preadmission Interviews: An Ethnographic Study" (Sandy Magnuson and Brad Chissom); "Corporal Punishment in Alabama: A Choice of Consequences" (S. Allen Wilcoxon and Albert Miles); and "Counselors and the Credentialing Process" (Susan Boes). (MKA)