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…

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)

Examined extent to which 1988 Council for Accreditation of Counseling and Related Educational Programs (CACREP) standards were judged by counselor educators (n=102) as relevant to counselor preparation. Respondents judged CACREP standards to be crucial or important to accreditation. Judgments of relevance differed significantly by numerical size…

Examined effects of counselor's fee level and title on perceptions of counselor behavior by female undergraduates (n=60). Results indicated fee level significantly affected perceptions of counselor credibility, attractiveness, expertness, and overall counselor behavior; title had no effect. (Author/ABL)

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…

Discusses various approaches to multicultural counseling training currently being used in counselor education programs. Outlines a developmental framework that describes the types of training thought to be available to counseling students at this time. (Author)

Contends that the development of consultation skills lags far behind the development of counseling skills in most counselor education programs. Examines some of the reasons why consultation training is not emphasized and suggests some remedies. A set of competencies of the consultant is appended. (Author/NB)

Contrasted counselors who disclosed personal material similar to client's problem, counselors who disclosed problematic but irrelevant information, counselors who disclosed nothing, and counselors whose similarity was revealed by someone else, using 60 college students role-playing clients. Found both disclosures and similarity information had…

Explored relationship between counselor trainee anger-proneness and anger discomfort and trainees' reactions to angry client. Thirty-eight trainees viewed and gave reactions to videotape of angry client-actress. Trainee anger-proneness and anger discomfort scores were positively and significantly related to discomfort with and anger toward the…

Compared skill-based and conceptual-based training method by measuring graduate level counselor trainees' (N=48) skill application in actual client interviews and client outcomes. Although groups did not differ in responding skills at pretest, skill-based group exhibited greater skill application in client interviews and superior client outcome…

Developed computer-based rehabilitation caseload management simulation and administered simulation to 18 rehabilitation students and 18 rehabilitation counselors. Performance was evaluated using six caseload management performance indicators. Performance indicators, derived from computer simulation, were found to be effective in differentiating…

A counseling student describes her experience as a target of long-term, systematic harassment in the form of sexual seduction by her practicum supervisor. The author recounts the effects of experiencing the harassment, confronting her harasser, and enduring an investigation. Claims events of case demonstrate sexualization of professor-student…

Examined effect of Relationship Enhancement training as a preventive intervention with college roommates in which trained paraprofessional counselors (resident assistants) led 20 Relationship Skills workshops for students in their living units. Found significantly higher level skills for the trained experimental group in comparison to the as-yet…

Examined the hypothesis that positive self-involving and self-disclosing counselor responses would be rated more favorably by college student subjects (N=214) than negative self-involving and self-disclosing counselor responses. Found counselor using positive self-involving responses was viewed as most interpersonally attractive. (Author/ABL)