It is generally agreed by authorities, all Universities should have a Health Service, incorporating student counselling facilities. Just what is being done in this University as regards such facilities? Are you, John Student, aware that the incidence of mental illness amongst students is higher than that of the non-student population?

Important questions such as these need answering; they need solutions. To give some indication to students and others, where the problem lies, what the problem is, and what is being done about the matter; Salient is incorporating in this issue, a special "Counselling Supplement."

Below, we print the text of a recent discussion, in which some relevant questions were put to a panel. Those taking part were: Mrs Kalfas, Miss Keren Clark, Vice-President, V.U.W.S.A., Professor Beaglehole, Mr I. Boyd, Managing Secretary, Student Union, Mr W. Landreth, Physical Education Officer, and Mr John Murray, Chaplain to the V.U.W.S.A. The chairman was Murray White.

The term "counselling" is a much-abused, little-understood concept. Could the panel give an Indication or what it thinks the term denotes. Could counselling be related to academic and social, as well as personality problems?