Presents an interview with Clayton A. Morgan, a distinguished rehabilitation counselor educator. Focuses on Morgan's experience and insight in areas such as the helping relationship, noncounseling variables in counseling, creative thinking and applied imagination, selection of graduate students, and communication. (Author/ABL)

Examines significant events that have influenced the personal and professional development of pioneers in the counseling field who have been interviewed in the "Journal of Counseling and Development." Presents some of the pioneers' observations and reflections about counselor training. (ABL)

Presents interview with Robert O. Stripling, a leader in counselor education in the development of standards of preparation and the procedure for accreditation, discussing his personal development, the development of his principal works, and his thoughts about important issues in counselor education. (Author)

Interviewed Frank Fletcher, a leader in establishing counseling as a profession, about his life and his work. His responses provide a personalized perspective of the profession and of the significant events that influenced his career development. (Author/KS)

Compared skill-based and conceptual-based training method by measuring graduate level counselor trainees' (N=48) skill application in actual client interviews and client outcomes. Although groups did not differ in responding skills at pretest, skill-based group exhibited greater skill application in client interviews and superior client outcome…

The counseling literature documents the profession's inception and growth in a variety of ways. Current examples include Counseling Today's "ACA Turns 50" feature series and "Passing the Tradition: ACES Presidents 1940-97" (Sheeley, 1997). Professional counselors often identify the late 1940s and early 1950s as the time of the profession's…

Presents interview with Ralph Bedell, professor emeritus of educational and counseling psychology in order to gain insight into the influence of the National Defense Counseling and Guidance Institutes on the history of counseling and to learn about the man who was responsible for the National Defense Education Act program. (Author/ABL)

Presents interview with Ralph Bedell, professor emeritus of educational and counseling psychology in order to gain insight into the influence of the National Defense Counseling and Guidance Institutes on the history of counseling and to learn about the man who was responsible for the National Defense Education Act program. (Author/ABL)

Presents interview with Rollo May, a prominent existential psychologist and therapist, who discusses his personal and professional development, his perspective on the state of the counseling profession, and his concerns about current societal issues. (Author/ABL)

Presents interview with Hans Zacharias Hoxter, a counselor with a wide influence on counseling internationally. Discusses how the American counseling movement affects and is affected by multinational and multicultural conceptions. (Author/ABL)

Solution-focused counseling (SFC) and motivational interviewing (MI) have gained recognition over the past 2 decades. A review of the features of these counseling approaches is provided, as well as an examination of the similarities and differences on several dimensions of counseling. Attention is given to empirical research, and it is proposed…