ABSTRACT
As is true for other areas in the field of education, there have been increasing pressures on the school counseling profession to be more accountable to the public concerning their relevance and effectiveness in helping students to be successful in the schools. The most recent example of this press of accountability has been the passing of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (U.S. Department of Education, 2002) legislation. This law mandates school systems to be more accountable for the academic successes and failures of their students. An important consequence of this law, and the more general current trend on accountability, is that there now are even greater pressures on the school counseling profession to demonstrate its effectiveness in meeting students’ emotional and social developmental needs and helping them to attain academic success.
