Jeannine R. Studer is a professor of counselor education at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. She received her doctorate in counseling at the University of Toledo. Studer was previously a high school counselor at Perkins High School in Sandusky, Ohio, later becoming the program coordinator and associate professor of the counseling program at Heidelberg University in Tiffin, Ohio, and an associate professor and co-program coordinator of school counseling at California State University, Stanislaus. Studer has written numerous journal articles surrounding such topics as the school counselor's role, at-risk students, students with special needs, supervision, and accountability procedures.… She is the author of three texts, The Professional School Counselor: An Advocate for Student , and A Guide to Practicum and Internship for School-Counselors-in-Training.