The author contends that counselor training and school realities are not insurmountable obstacles. School counselors are desperate for help and guidance in these times of upheaval and confusion and feel the resources to retrain, renew, and revitalize the profession rest with counselor educators and university personnel. Chris D. Kehas comments on…

This article, expressing the views of three collaborating graduate students, examines the role of the counselor and concludes that the basic priority for all school counselors is to break down the existing dichotomy between teachers and counselors by removing the mystique surrounding what counselors "do." (Author/HMV)

This discussion of school counseling advocates the need for a reexamination of the political role of the counselor in the schools, the preparation of a more realistic curriculum for counselor education and the development of guidelines by which counseling positions in each school can be evaluated. (JC)