Romano and Kachgal argue for greater collaboration between counseling psychology and school counseling. Although their proposal has considerable merit, a variety of barriers to collaboration—including professional jealousies and turf, the lack of knowledge and interest of most counseling psychologists in schools, and the availability of benefits to sustain the partnership for all parties—must be addressed. We argue that adopting shared conceptual frameworks that return to and extend the roots of both disciplines is needed to foster and sustain the proposed partnership. Three conceptual models are presented.
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