Makes an argument for the value of addressing, understanding, and learning from critiques of psychotherapy and counseling. Offers framework for viewing disparate critiques. Suggests that valid criticism can be welcomed as a spur to fresh thought. States that practitioners must be proactive in examining their profession if the field is to remain…

Discusses key issues which address the distinctive dilemmas and challenges associated with qualitative approaches to evaluating counseling. Investigates such concerns as relationships with research participants, ethics, reflexivity, methodological choice, communicability, perspective, and obviousness. Makes some suggestions regarding the link…

Shares the experiences of a researcher engaged in qualitative research. Looks at researcher sensitivity and flexibility, ethical dilemmas, and the importance of a good "research alliance" with participants. Discusses, the implications of including participants as collaborators and the role of co-researchers. Emphasizes the impact of…

Investigates whether supervisors of counselors in private practice consider themselves to be personally responsible for the work of their supervisees, what responsibilities they consider themselves to have, and how they manage their responsibilities. Participants indicated a preference to supervise only those counselors in whose work they already…

Sets forth a model of group supervision, drawing on a creative therapies approach which provides an effective way of delivering process issues, conceptualization issues, and personalization issues. The model makes particular use of techniques drawn from art therapy and from psychodrama, and should be applicable to therapists of many orientations.…

Discusses practitioners' doubts about the value of theory in counseling. The relationship between theory and practice is a sensitive one in the debate on competencies, and an illuminating one in that on postmodernism. Practice is improvisational, and is refined by frameworks provided by theory, critical thinking, and "reflective…