Highlights major changes in school and rehabilitation counselor preparation over past decade following Howie's 1979 counselor preparation recommendations. Suggests specific counselor competencies needed to provide comprehensive services. Describes how to integrate competencies within applicable accreditation guidelines. (Authors/CM)

Discusses complex and ambiguous process of counseling and range of skills needed by counselors. Notes that the training of counselors is also a complex task and describes the work of Viviane Robinson and Jan Halliday, who are examining counselor training from an information-processing perspective. (NB)

Surveyed Chinese (N=102) and American (N=148) graduate students studying at the same large American university on the preferences for counselor characteristics, images of a counselor, and attitudes toward counseling and counseling services. Found that although both groups held positive attitudes towards counseling they had different preferences…

Investigated the relationships between clients' early premature termination of counseling and ratings of their counselors' expertness, trustworthiness, and attractiveness and the extent to which clients believed that they were understood by their counselors. Conducted a follow-up survey to assess clients' reasons for terminating prematurely. Time…

Characteristics of current and emerging school counseling program models are reviewed, and their limitations and challenges in serving students' needs in the 21st century are enumerated. The authors discuss the implications for these models of recent advances in developmental theory and research and in positive psychology, along with the…

Claims client posttermination contact with counselors who have relocated has been neglected as training and practice issue. Uses analytic reflections to explore counselor, client, and process variables relative to counselors' response to "following" clients. (Author/ABL)

Reviews three articles from the EAP Digest which discuss the low employee-penetration rate of employee assistance programs. Claims low rates may be a result of environmental, employee, and supervisory attitudes about referral and intervention responsibilities. Concludes future of counselors as feasible service providers hinges partly on successful…

Provides overview of distinctive problems actors pose from a counseling standpoint and the manner in which a recently established program addresses these needs. Describes how performers are assisted in securing dignified interim work, changing their careers, and renewing their sense of purpose in life. (Author)

Describes application of Gestalt theory as a means of dealing with surviving classmates of a student who commited suicide. Relates case study of counseling classmates of a 13-year-old suicide victim in class-sized groups, individually, and groups of two. (Author/ABL)

Reviews research on client attrition from university counseling centers, explores implications for practice, and offers suggestions for future research. Concludes that premature termination is not unitary phenomenon and that dropouts are heterogeneous group, suggesting need for greater conceptual and methodological precision in study of counseling…