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Based on a review of the literature involving group counseling and guidance activities with learning impaired adolescent students, the present article focuses on the cooperative assistance that counselors and special education teachers can provide for the learning disabled. A rationale and set of procedures are suggested to incorporate group activities for the less severely impaired so as to facilitate their reintegration into regular classrooms.

Almost a decade has passed since a number of counselor education programs across the country began offering an undergraduate major in guidance. The purpose of these programs is to provide undergraduates with a wide range of limited guidance skills necessary to function under supervision in helping capacities. Descriptive data about the graduates from these programs and evaluation of the training they received is needed. This followup study of 101 alumni, representing five classes of undergraduate guidance majors, provides demographic data, male-female comparisons in selected areas, information on graduate education completed, employment data, and a general evaluation ofthe training program. Implications of the findings for graduate-level counselor education programs are also discussed.The Guidance Associate Program in the Divison of Counselor Education at North Texas State University, established in 1972, was one of the first programs in the nation to offer an undergraduate major in guidance. The two-year program, consisting of twenty-four semester hours, is open to students of junior standing. Student applicants are screened by a selection committee and receive their training in an institute-like format with classes open only to Guidance Associate majors. To encourage growth and personal integration of learning material, students are placed in permanent subgroups for weekly group counseling sessions spanning their first year of training. Although the program was initially conceived and designed to equip students to perform various guidance functions in public schools, well over half (64%) the students selected planned to work in nonpublicschool related occupations.The purpose of this survey, was (a) to provide long-term follow-up data on an innovative program in counselor education and (b) to obtain data that could be used in curriculum and program modification.