This document presents guidelines for planning and teaching a cross-cultural counseling course. Problems encountered in defining the culturally different are discussed. Ten minimum course objectives are presented and three ways that a professor may focus on the impact of culture on the counseling process and address the counseling relationship,…

Strategies and techniques based on the Multicultural Counseling Competencies must be grounded in principles that establish counselor training programs as learning environments and that reframe curricula through competency-based objectives. Outlines a framework for infusing multiculturalism into curricula through the application of specific…

Describes the curriculum for a course on counseling and spirituality. Details elements of the course, methods to facilitate interaction, and skills to be gained by counselors taking the course. Lists course goals and course assignments and details the five parts of the curriculum. (RJM)

Graduate training programs could help counselors become aware of their biases. Coursework on sex fairness is available in some institutions and is open to practicing professionals. Counselor educators must be aware of their roles in expanding options for all students. (JAC)

Describes a course designed to explore spiritual issues that occur in counseling. Using a multicultural framework, discusses topics such as understanding spirituality, assessing clients' spiritual needs, and identifying spiritual issues in counseling. Looks at course rationale and objectives, counselor self-awareness, the class process, and…

Concludes that to provide training applicable for counseling students anticipating employment in a community setting, a planned, systematic approach to program development is needed. This article proposes a three-phase model for change that considers departmental resources, student characteristics and agency needs. (Author)

Delineates specific steps necessary to successfully recruit and retain American Indians in counselor training programs, proposes a curriculum for training counselors to effectively provide services to American Indians with disabilities, and discusses the responsibility of counselor educators to concern themselves with the "job placement" of their…

Describes how the faculty of a counselor-education program developed and implemented a social-advocacy model of counselor preparation. States that preparing counselors to be advocates for change puts counseling in action. Encourages counselor educators to consider the value of social advocacy in counselor preparation. (Author/MKA)

Over the next decade, distance learning will provide counselor preparation programs with a host of both opportunities and challenges. This user-friendly handbook helps counselor educators develop skills to teach students who are participating in distance learning classes. The purpose of this book is to help counselor educators and other faculty…

Many undergraduate courses can be easily modified for televised instruction. However, courses such as group work require weekly writing, have major expectations of practice, and necessitate immediate feedback, and so need considerable revamping for televised instruction. Ways to achieve this modification are covered here. The first consideration…

Charges that counselor educators are calling for more counselor training without recognizing that academic programs do not have ever-expanding resources and time. A response by the Council for Accreditation of Counseling and Related Educational Programs agrees that the profession must examine counselor education, and make specific recommendations.…

This report on a project concerned with planning and integrating basic academic skills in vocational education contains three sections. The first section describes required elements of the project; the second section presents a detailed review of how each of the major deliverables was developed; the third section outlines recommendations. The…

Suggests that poetic and figurative language be incorporated into counselor education curricula and explores five practical ways of doing this. Concludes that a knowledge of the poetic may facilitate counselor-client communication and interaction, complement other counseling techniques, and help in counselor-client problem solving. (Author)

Responding to the need for qualified personnel for career education, the authors designed the guide for use by university program or instructional planners in the preparation of undergraduate/graduate personnel for implementing career education in grades K-12. The basic components of the document consist of: (1) 105 broad general goals in career…