Surveying the faults and conflicts is society obscures many strengths and advantages and seems to put undue stress on the negative. But these are the factors that must be high-lighted. There are shortcomings that demand immediate and comprehensive remedies. Guidance and counseling obviously cannot solve everything alone, but they can play a major role. Guidance workers can reach individuals who need assistance, help modify conditions that call for improvement, change institutions that are failing in their missions, and take steps to reverse destructive trends. Problems and needs in society are nothing new, but today they seem to be proliferating at an unprecedented rate. Problems once hidden have become visible; new ones arise. All are given extensive coverage by media. No area of life is taboo. But rapid and unexpected local, national, and international changes give rise to needs and challenges qualitatively and quantitatively different from those of the past. The book will be of use to graduate and post graduate students in education and to practicing teachers, administrators, librarians and planners. The chapters and the further sources of information cited in this book should lead the reader to thousands of people and documents for either research or programme planning purposes.