This anthology contains eight papers given at a symposium which brought faculty and graduate students together to share their interests and views about the counseling profession. It explores a wide variety of topics: the need for preretirement counseling, the views of elementary counselors regarding their responsibilities in working with the parents of disabled children, ideas for counselors who wish to have career counseling and placement programs at a minimal cost, Christianity and counseling from a person perspective, extending mental health services to the elderly using a consultation and peer counseling approach, premarital pregnancy and out of wedlock births as they relate to child abuse, seating positions and group interactions, and the use of assertiveness training as it relates to therapy with couples. (Author)