TITLE Helping Counselor Trainees Get Along: An Issue for Professional Development.

Implementation; Role This paper presents a programmatic strategy to address unresolved student-student disagreements. The paper examines cultural norms--within training programs in academic settings--that contribute to interpersonal problems among students. It describes the following norms as related to some stated principles for negotiating diversity: (1) program faculty, as a collective, should not manage relationship problems among students; (2) perspectives represented by the majority of a group, whether student or faculty cohorts, are meaningful perspectives; (3) all issues of difference should be addressed and resolved within the confines of multicultural or diversity related counseling courses; (4) increasing the representation of diversity among faculty and student cohorts is the most important end; (5) all faculty share the same level of access to power and resources and professional status within the system and within th