Focusing on the challenges of training counseling psychologists, Ridley and colleagues offer in this issue a review and critique of microskills training, the dominant training model in counseling psychology graduate programs. Recognizing the role of higher order cognitive and affective functions in expert practice, they propose a hierarchical…

Working from their proposed model of counseling competence, the authors address critical implications and applications of the model. First, they present a 10-parameter juxtaposition of the model of counseling competence and the microskills training model, including points of comparision and contrast. Second, they discuss implications of the model…

For more than four decades, the microskills approach has been the dominant paradigm for training entry-level counseling students. At its inception, the model met a critical need: instruction in discrete counseling behaviors, which at the time was conspicuously missing from training curricula. Although these behaviors have become essential…

This article represents an invited reaction to the series of articles critiquing the microskills approach predominant in most counseling training programs as well as the new model of counseling competence presented in this issue. The authors note that the microskills approach has been a useful and well-researched framework in the field, although…

The authors of the Major Contribution have developed a complex and elegant three-level training model on which they suggest advanced microskills may be built. Prior to the description of their model, they have built a case that current microskills training has proved foundationally important but insufficient to training needs. They then invite…

The Practical Skills Model of Multicultural Engagement represents an attempt to create a means for moving beyond the development of knowledge and awareness into the development of skills that will assist practitioners to practice in a culturally competent manner. The model builds on basic counseling skills, combining them with specific approaches…

This article describes the goals and methods of training facilitators of consciousness-raising groups in an undergraduate sex roles course. (Author)

Chinese counselors (N=133) were surveyed in order to examine the recent development of counseling at universities in China. Results suggest that most counselors had received little formal training in counseling, and counseling was often done in the context of political and thought education. Respondents perceived themselves as needing more…

Skills dissemination refers to therapeutic interventions which train individuals in human development process skill for their own benefit and that of those around them. The author discusses prerequisites to dissemination, skills or content satisfying these prerequisites, methods for dissemination, and necessary education and training for…

The acquisition of research skills is seen as appropriate for all counselors. Research proposal writing is suggested as a training method for achieving those skills. The role of each part of the research proposal in training research skills is explained. (NG)

Adult counselors can benefit from applied skill training to increase their effectiveness as helpers. This article outlines an eclectic training model developed to train paraprofessional counselors. It then describes three major training approaches in use today, and makes some comparisons among the four training models. (Author)

This article applies the Principles of Empirically Supported Interventions (PESI) in counseling psychology to anger management with adults. The review suggests that there is empirical support for cognitive-behavioral interventions generally and for four specific interventions (relaxation, cognitive, behavioral skill enhancement, and combinations…