This paper presents the findings of a mixed methods study regarding students' perceptions of mentoring in a cooperative education (co-op) program. Specifically, content analysis of student interviews suggested a lack of understanding of the mentoring process as characterized by unexamined assumptions and inadequate preparation for the co-op…

The American School Counseling Association's (ASCA) National Model has been recognized in the field of professional school counseling as an effective framework for the training and supervision of school counselor interns. Despite this recommendation, school counselor supervision models which incorporate the ASCA model have until recently been rare…

The primary form of experiential education in political science is an internship in a government office. Too often, however, with little actual monitoring of their experiences, government interns become little more than classic office "gofers." Fortunately, there are strategies to make political internships not only useful learning experiences for…

The supervision of interns in field settings has traditionally posed problems for university faculty members. While most professors would agree that supervision of interns is important, it is generally viewed as an add-on to an already full complement of responsibilities. The present study was designed to examine the effects of a faculty feedback…

The purpose of this paper is to present a model of a master's level internship training program at a university counseling center and to show how master's level therapists, with adequate supervision and training, have enhanced the performance of a counseling center. The first step was to develop a training manual to serve as a roadmap for staff…