Journal of Counseling Research

Today, due to complex and rapid changes in various aspects of personal, social and cultural life of students on the one hand, in terms of age and academic  with the needs and specific problems and on the other hand with different challenges and face numerous decisions and counselors can be trained as experts in the field helper services to students in these matters and his colleagues (teachers and educators) to facilitate and improve the education process, help. Therefore, study and rethinking what is planned and what has been done in a dynamic and flourishing of professional this field will be facilitator and helpful.

This study is an overview of the research is to study the evolution of guidance and counseling system in education. After more than two decades of continuous counseling services in schools, there is some overlap challenges and tasks at school level, reviewing and defining new strategies in the manner and to provide counseling  services in the vital necessity for qualitative and quantitative.

In the study evolution of guidance and counseling in Iran, Six distinct periods, each of which represents a particular ups and downs is understandable and verifiable. This period include: Ideation and preliminary planning; incomplete implementation of the program; recession and cessation; Planning of infrastructural, Rehabilitation and Reconstruction counseling program; period of development and maturity of work; and Period of stagnation and erosion counselors. Can conclude that despite the necessity and effectiveness of of guidance and counseling program has been faced with numerous challenges. to expected besed-health  and its effectiveness was organized much earlier, which demands attention, support  and scientific planning and in education of  human resources and is in the field of administration.