This publication contains eight research papers presented and discussed at the April 1977 second annual Carolina Counselors' Spring Symposium. They cover a wide range of topics: (1) self-concept as it relates to adjustment in the blind; (2) open-space school and its guidance strategies; (3) death education and counseling; (4) the locus of control in counseling; (5) sex-role stereotyping; (6) counseling women offenders; (7) concerns of continuing education for mature women; and (8) school phobia. (PFS)