he professional counselors, psychologists, psychiatrists, and other college counseling professionals working in counseling centers, mental health centers, and health centers on 2-and 4-year college and university campuses support their institutions' missions by "helping students work through psychological and emotional issues that may affect their academic success and personal development" (Dungy, 2003, p. 345). The reach of college counseling professionals is wide: it covers students' adjustments, wellness, coping, and decision making, as well as their mental health needs and help seeking. The articles appearing in this issue of the Journal of College Counseling (JCC) explore several of these student needs and help inform and illustrate effective college counseling practices.
In Research, Kim A. Weikel and her colleagues examine the roles of overt and covert narcissism in college students' interpersonal problems, emotional distress, academic concerns, and other adjustment difficulties. These authors add to a robust literature exploring the importance of narcissism in the college counseling context. In the second research article, Todd F. Lewis and Jane E. Myers apply a well-established wellness model to a perennial college counseling issue: problematic student alcohol use. They report on several relationships between wellness factors and the intensity and consequences of student drinking. In the next research article, Alberta M. Gloria and her colleagues assess whether cultural orientation, cultural fit, and other factors influence Latina students' help-seeking attitudes. The authors discuss their mixture of findings and offer implications for future research as well as current practice. Kelly L. Wester and Heather C. Trepal report in the fourth research article what they have learned regarding factors differentiating the special population of students who engage in nonsuicidal self-injury from their peers who do not self-injure. They add tentative new findings to what is known about this underexamined campus population. In the final research article, Janis T. Morey and Donald F. Dansereau discuss on the outcomes of two strategies for improving college clients' decision making. They report that one approach-social perspective taking-seems especially promising.
Next, in their Professional Issues and Innovative Practice article, Melinda M. Gibbons and W. Matthew Shurts introduce and illustrate a counseling approach grounded in narrative theory that can be used to address career and relationship issues, simultaneously, in an effective and efficient group format. Finally, in this issue's engaging College Counseling Case Studies article, Rebekah Smart uses a biopsychosocialcultural approach informed by feminist and multicultural theories to assist a female biracial client experiencing an eating disorder.