If there is one thing that the recent FOX television program got right, it is the gender and age of the school counselor on Glee.

With Wednesday night class, I have seen about 15 minutes of three different episodes of this new program.  As I was watching the glee club teacher and another character (Emma Pillsbury) hook up last night, my daughter informed me that she was the school counselor.

A current debate is raging in professional counseling associations surrounding the issue of professional identity of counselors.

The Association of Michigan School Counselors (AMSC) and the Michigan School Counselor Association (MSCA) are hosting a joint spring conference on April 27, 2009 at Eastern Michigan University in Ypsilanti, Michigan.

Since the profession of school counseling has opened up to include non-teachers being trained as school counselors, there has been much debate surrounding the following question:  Does one need to be trained as a teacher to be an effective professional school counselor?

School counselor v. guidance counselor:  Does it really matter?  When we talk about the role of the counseling position in schools, many would argue that the title doesn't matter.