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Professional School Counseling, Dec, 2004 by John Wadsworth, Amy Milson, Karen Cocco

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John Wadsworth, Ph.D., CRC, NCC, Amy Milsom, DEd, LPC, NCC, and Karen Cocco, Ph.D., all are assistant professors in Counseling, Rehabilitation & Student Development at the University of Iowa, Iowa Cir. E-mail: johns-wadsworth@uiowa.edu

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