Notes that counselor educators, supervisors, and practitioners who communicate to students and trainees the importance of being caring, respectful, warm, flexible, honest, and personally competent, sometimes act in ways that contradict these significant beliefs and values. Discusses issues related to counselor educator's, supervisor's, and…

Comments on Weinrach's (1990) article "A Psychosocial Look at the Jewish Dilemma" and offers an alternative view of how a Jewish counselor educator responds to tension created by membership in multiple communities with multiple and often competing ritual systems. Concludes challenge of being Jewish is to willingly engage in dialogue. (Author/ABL)

Outlines general courtroom procedures and offers systematic practical advice for the counselor testifying as an expert witness. Includes topics of counselor role in court, preparing for testimony, answering questions, and dealing with the cross-examination. (Author)

Surveyed 155 secondary school counselors from schools organized along three different structures (high schools, junior high schools, combined junior-senior high schools) to examine how the counselors perceived their roles. Counselors in combined schools reported spending greater amounts of time doing educational and vocational guidance.…

Provides update on status of primary prevention for counselors and argues for its broader-scale adoption in training and practice. Reviews recent evidence demonstrating that well-designed and well-executed primary prevention programs can be highly effective. Discusses implications of this work that are significant for the profession of counseling.…

Discusses diagnosis, addressing need for and usefulness of diagnosis by clinicians in general, with emphasis on related ethical concerns and clinicians' competence in diagnosis specifically. Concludes that graduate programs involved in training clinical professionals need to teach diagnosis more aggressively. (Author/NB)

Provides brief overview of models of ethics training and addresses specific strategies for preventing counselor-client sexual contact (knowledge, activities promoting self-awareness, provision of climate that enhances moral development). Discusses responsibilities of training programs, including provision of clear statements of rights and…

Suggests that counselors might profitably investigate new graphic approaches to showing clients what their multivariate profiles mean. Gives illustration in terms of Holland's RIASEC (Realistic, Investigative, Artistic, Social, Enterprising, Conventional) model of vocational interests. Notes that same issues and principles of graphic display would…

Counselors in all settings work with clients who are survivors of trauma. Vicarious trauma, or counselors developing trauma reactions secondary to exposure to clients' traumatic experiences, is not uncommon. The purpose of this article is to describe vicarious trauma and summarize the recent research literature related to this construct. The…

Discusses scientist-practitioner model in which practitioners are consumers of research findings about assessment and treatment, evaluators of their own interventions, and researchers who report data to the scientific community. Stresses importance of using model in training entry-level counselors. Describes a course focusing on model. (Author/ABL)

Studied employment and roles of master's-level counselors in employee assistance programs (EAPs). Counselors were found to be similar to those with Master's of Social Work degrees in employment rate and percentage of EAP staff. Both groups were most frequently employed and constituted greatest percentage of professional mental health staff in…

Describes educational collaboration and its relationship to school consultation as structured planning, decision-making, and problem-solving process. Identifies characteristics of collaborative school and its organizational structures. Articulates roles and skills counselors can use to provide leadership in developing and implementing…

Describes program for training parents to be more effective as sexuality educators of their children developed and implemented in elementary school setting by school counselor. Content of the program is discussed and need for such programing is examined. (Author/NB)

Lists and describes a number of types of consultee resistance that commonly occur during consultation and discusses methods and techniques for dealing with these acts. Concludes with suggestions for empirical research to determine the effectiveness of various strategies for dealing with consultee resistance. (Author)

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…