The authors examined 38 school counselor supervisors' perceptions of the Discrimination Model (DM; Bernard, 1979, 1997) of supervision, replicating and extending Ellis and Dell's (1986) investigation of the DM with mental health counselor supervisors. Participants judged the dissimilarity of each unique combination of roles and foci of the DM. The…

Current Council for Accreditation of Counseling and Related Educational Programs (CACREP; 2001) standards promote the use of triadic supervision by counselor educators and supervisors. However, conceptual models of triadic supervision do not presently exist in the supervision literature. This article describes the process and structure of 1 model…

The article describes a triadic method of supervision that can be adapted to several settings. The triadic method reduces the complexities of the supervision process to teachable elements. Students learn to function alternately in the three roles of supervisor, commentator, and facilitator. (Author)

Describes the structure and process of a third party approach toward evaluation of counseling skills. The structure is referred to as "the counseling jury", which involves a practical examination taken anytime during the doctoral program, prior to admission to doctoral candidacy. (Author)

An instructional program using simulation to reach instructional objectives is described. The four levels of simulation discussed are reading and listening, modeling, practice experience and role playing, and supervised experience. (Author)

Conducted a national survey of counselor education field practicum programs. Reported current and ideal characteristics of practicum activities, trainee evaluation, and supervisory requirements from 287 counselor education programs. (Author)