Noting that peer supervision groups are advocated for counselors at all experience levels, this article describes and illustrates a structured peer group format that encourages skill development, conceptual growth, participation, instructive feedback, and self-monitoring. Discusses emphasis on developing cognitive counseling skills and describes…

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)

Examined therapist-counselor development by conducting in-depth, semistructured interviews with 100 participants. Twenty themes of therapist-counselor development fell within categories of primary characteristic themes, process descriptor themes, source of influence themes, and secondary characteristics themes. Professional development topics…

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)

Reviews articles in special journal issue dealing with critical incidents, or direct experiences which have impacted the counselors who experienced them. Examines what critical incidents mean to the persons they affect and discusses the powerfulness of mistakes, of personal crises, and of empathy. (NB)

Responds to 58 articles in special journal issue dealing with critical incidents, or direct experiences which have impacted the counselors who experienced them. See critical incidents as examples of Jung's concept of synchronicity, two simultaneous events that occur coincidentally and, although not causally related, result in a meaningful…