This book contains a collection of 14 papers dealing with guidance and guidance programs in the Philippines, the Republic of China, Japan, and Thailand. An overview of the place of American counselors in international guidance and benefits to counselors and the counseling profession of world-wide contacts is reviewed in the initial paper. Issues facing the helping professions in Asian countries are discussed, including career counseling and manpower development and the role of public and private educational funding. Among the programs described are counselor training, vocational counseling, career information resources and testing programs in the Philipines, manpower development and junior high placement services in China, career guidance in Japanese senior high schools, and a guidance information-week fair in Thailand. (JAC)