There has been a growing relationship between the profession of counseling and computers over the last four decades. The focus in the 1950s and 1960s was on producing programs that could emulate a human therapist and computer-aided instruction. In the 1970s and 1980s computing technology was utilized primarily for counseling intervention and…

Limited literature concerning computer technology exists in the field of counselor education despite the increasing use of technology as a method of instructional delivery. The use of computers to aid or mediate instruction is rapidly becoming commonplace in many counselor education programs, yet little is known about the pedagogical advantages of…

This document contains six major presentations from the 1984 summer workshop, "The C3 Experience: Counseling, Computers, and Creative Change," sponsored by the ERIC Clearinghouse on Counseling and Personnel Services. The first presentation, "Exponential Counseling: Computers as a Multiplier" by JoAnn Harris-Bowlsbey, reviews…