This learning module, one in a series of 127 performance-based teacher education learning packages focusing upon specific professional competencies of vocational teachers, deals with counseling exceptional students with personal and social problems. Addressed in the individual learning experiences are the following topics: understanding the important considerations and techniques involved in counseling students with personal or social problems (building rapport, working on special problems, referring students to other professionals, and keeping records); describing and evaluating the performance of teachers who have counseled students with social or personal problems in case studies; and counseling such students in an actual teaching situation. Each learning experience contains some or all of the following: an objective, instructional text, one or more learning activities, and a feedback activity. (MN)