An examination of issues faced by the developmental school counselor. Topical areas include the history, principles, and practices of school counseling, tenets, and guidelines of developmental counseling, schools as institutions, counselor reform, Massachusetts curriculum frameworks, MCAS and other forms of school-based appraisal, students with special needs, school-based prevention and intervention, legal and ethical issues, college and career counseling, referral, group counseling in educational settings, consultation, the deveopment of the school counselor, and the future of school counseling. Rewuired for master's- and CAGS- level school counseling students. Restricted to matriculated students or those with permission of instructor. 4cr, 1st sem.