Counselors and administrators need to collaboratively build a guidance program. This article offers a model of a people-oriented guidance program that requires the principal's active participation in challenging old assumptions and exploring new roles to bring about change. A checklist for establishing an effective program is provided. (Author/WD)

Describes a comprehensive guidance model designed to help the middle school student achieve the developmental and learning tasks of transescence and outlines a step-by-step plan for implementing the model. (Author/IRT)

In response to criticisms of the guidance profession, the American School Counselor Association sponsored a project to identify exemplary guidance programs throughout the United States. The project yielded a set of standards and distinguished the characteristics and functions of effective counselors. (Author/WD)