Materials contained in the 16 volumes that make up the Rural America Series suggest practices through which rural schools can meet local community needs and realize their potential for career program delivery. This handbook, one of five in the subset of program development process documents for the series, describes the need for and characteristics of behavioral objectives and procedures for their development and use in a comprehensive career guidance and counseling program. Procedures for coordinating the writing of program behavioral objectives are provided. These include the role of the program planning committee, the responsibilities of behavioral objective group members and their leader, and a process for developing and reviewing program behavioral objectives. A major section of the handbook consists of a programed self-instructional manual for writing behavioral objectives. (TA)