This volume contains the papers presented at a conference whose purpose was to bring together counselors to discuss the issues around changing roles of counselors, attitudes of counselors, updating counseling strategies and techniques, and legal considerations. It also addresses the problems of counseling students who have suffered from racism and/or sexism. The papers included address the following issues: (1) building counseling skills for special clients, (2) multicultural counseling, (3) counseling for equal educational opportunity, (4) changing perspectives of the counselor's role, (5) counseling the handicapped, (6) anti sexist counseling and counseling strategies that reduce sexism, (7) the role of the counselor in a sexist society, (8) testing and equal opportunity, (9) a review of models provided as explanations for black childrens' low test performance and academic achievement, (10) the assessment process in counseling, and (11) a legal look at counseling. (Author/AM)