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Comprehensive guidance and counseling programs are being implemented throughout the United States. One of the most widely used programs, the Missouri Model, includes a guidance curriculum as one of its central program elements. The authors discuss the results of a study exploring the national trends in the use of school counseling guidance materials. Implications for comprehensive guidance and counseling program implementation are included. The American School Counselor Association (ASCA, 1997) clearly supports a comprehensive guidance and counseling orientation through its policy statement, the publication of the National Standards for Schoo