This guide outlines guidance and counseling services in adult basic education (ABE) while providing a structure on which to conduct counselor inservice training. Relationships with ABE teachers and administrators are considered first. Also covered are implementation of the curriculum, functions of the New York State Employment Service, ABE counselor relations with community and welfare agencies, ABE guidance and counseling goals, characteristics of disadvantaged adults, student orientation and other program services, and the process of program evaluation. Two bibliographies and a subject index are furnished. (LY)