The purpose of this study is to develop a parents-involved group counseling program for alleviating academic stress of elementary school students in higher grades and to test the developed counseling program in order to verify its effects on academic stress. This Group Counseling Program is researched, analyzed, designed, developed and applied. First, it surveyed 190 elementary school students in higher grades for actual requirement. Second, it analyzed the number of program session, session’s goal, session sequence. Third, it designed program contents and activities by pooling and warehousing. Forth, it developed final program by pilot test and experts of advice. Fifth, to verify the effectiveness of the developed counseling program.a sample of grade 5 students at W elementary school in Cheongju City was selected to test an academic stress level. Students with a score higher than M+1SD became the subject of the counseling program, which included ten students for an experimental group and another ten students for a control group: the ten students in the experimental group participated in the counseling program with their parents, and the other ten students in the control group consented to take the counseling program on their own. Mihyun Kim’s (2009) academic stress test was used as a tool for this sampling test, and the collected statistical data was analyzed by Mixed ANOVA from SPSS/Window 12. Furthermore, from the experimental group, both experience reports and counselor observation contents were analyzed in order to improve the reliability of the quantitative results. The results from this research are as follows. The counseling program showed a positive reduction of academic stress of elementary school students in senior year grades.