Many professional school counselors regularly serve as site supervisors to school counselors-in-training, despite never receiving formal supervision training. Using a phenomenological approach, the researchers explored school counseling site supervisors' (N = 15) experiences in a clinical faculty school counseling university supervision training…

Social workers and attorneys both interact with persons from diverse backgrounds every day, yet although interpersonal skills are an essential focus of social work education, these skills are not addressed in legal education. Interdisciplinary courses in which social workers and lawyers learn interpersonal skills together and have an opportunity…

This paper describes a creative approach for training counselor and counselor educators that provides collaborative interactions among students and faculty in several university training programs. Structured around a problem-solving activity and self-reflection questionnaires, undergraduate teachers-in-training were given an opportunity to receive…

The paper outlines a faculty developed communication skills training lab designed for students in a masters degree program in guidance and counselor education. The communication module, three voluntary, ungraded sessions offered during three of the final six class meetings, focus attention on (1) distinguishing between thinking, feeling, and…

In order to facilitate a synergistic relationship to the community, the Center for Human Development was established at Loras College in Dubuque, Iowa. The major purpose of the Center was to initiate adjunct professional experiences to assist the training of graduate students in counseling and guidance. Results are discussed. (Author)

This article proposes development of self-instructional modules to individualize counselor training. Advantages and constraints of self-instructional modules are discussed and three components of a self-contained module are illustrated. Suggestions are included for implementing self-instructional modules as individual instructional units or as…