The major purpose of this investigation was to develop a program for teaching a specific counselor verbal skill and to examine the effect of simulation methods within the program. (Author)

This article reviews the literature pertinent to prepracticum laboratory experiences in counselor education and describes the elements and the evaluation of one such program. (Author)

Describes a fellowship program for counselors where experiences place emphasis on life within an industrial complex, sensitivity to the feelings of others and the effects that they have on those feelings, counseling theory and skills, and the psychology of vocational development. (Author/PC)

Reviews the group supervision literature in counselor training from 1960 to 1983. Included only those articles pertaining to supervised groups of counselor trainees participating in individual counseling practica. Descriptions of group supervision include elements of case presentation, didactic information, and interpersonal process. (Author/BH)

This short article describes innovations in the counseling practicum at Ball State University. Such innovations include the setting up of a laboratory (wherein students spend at least four hours per week engaging in activities such as tape critiquing, encounter, and discussion), supervision of prepracticum by practicum students, and the use of a…

The purpose of this study was to determine significant differences in the self-ratings of counseling practicum students, their supervisor, and practicum assistants using the Counselor Evaluation Rating Scale (CERS). Findings indicated significant differences for 9 of the 27 items on the instrument. (Author)

Laboratory facilities make possible the audio- and videotaping of counseling as well as live observation, and with these aides the counselor educator can help counselor trainees significantly improve their counseling skills. Undermining the potential value and success of the laboratory practicum is the problem of counselee staffing. (Author)