Describes competence assessment as a method by which counselors can relate staff development directly to success on the job. Discusses collecting data to identify critical counseling competencies and constructing learning experiences to promote competence. Offers some general principles for staff development. (Author/RC)

The authors focus on evaluation as opposed to research, showing that the skills and processes are not the same and that therefore the graduate training should not be the same. Necessary evaluation skills include a knowledge of research design, instrument construction, effective consultation, practical experience, maturity and communication. (LA)

A review of literature was conducted to provide direction in developing skill maintenance strategies. A self-supervisory program that applies the procedures of behavioral self-control to specific helping behavior that is identifiable on audiotape or videotape is advocated. ( Author)

The process of career selection should begin with self-knowledge. With this in mind, we have adapted a unique and creative career decision-making approach beginning with self-exploration and ending with the establishment of alternative plans of action. The model is discussed. (Author)

Presents the rationale for deliberate psychological education as a mode for individual, direct and developmental intervention in schools. Following the rationale, a detailed description is given of classroom learning experiences actually employed to achieve the overall objectives of psychological maturation of pupils. (LA)

As an answer to a previous article written by David Frey on creativity, the author argues that creativity is not innate but learned. He admits the important role creativity plays in counseling, but maintains that creativity is very much a developmental process that is influenced by the environment. (Author/SE)

The authors propose a two-phase model of group counseling that is structured and involves simultaneously teaching and applying counseling skills to real-life problems of the members of the group. (Author)

Provides a metamodel with which counselors can design programs for all populations of parents, particularly low-income. Suggests that education programs can provide training in interpersonal skills and family management skills. Describes development and application of the model and how components might be sequenced for training a particular parent…

An eight-session Relationship Skills Training program was developed for college students who have difficulty in meeting others and establishing close personal relationships. The major components of each session (i.e., introduction, cognitive restructuring, skills training, and homework) are described, and results of the initial offering of the…

Any interview in which the client and counselor come from widely different cultures becomes a cross-cultural interview. The attempt is to train counselors in specific skills--even beyond those proven counselor skills from any one of the several theoretical orientations--that will help the counselors communicate with culturally different clients.…

Professionals must recognize that skill domains that go well beyond the usual intellective and cognitive professional-technical skill domain are vital to effective practice but are believed less possible and less appropriate to teach and evaluate. (Author)

Describes the Directed Individual Response-Educational Consulting Technique (DIRECT) which delineates seven steps in the consulting process and further specifies four levels of appropriate consultant "leads" to facilitate the development of each step. The DIRECT model is specifically designed to promote development of consulting interview skills.…

A counselor training program with a specialization in bilingual-multicultural education is proposed. This requires specific attitudes, skills, and competencies based on the interdisciplinary philosophies of counseling, bilingual education, and multicultural education. (Author)

Describes how persons working in health care settings can learn basic counseling and empathic listening skills through a special course/workshop. The rationale for introducing such counseling to medical professionals and an outline of an instructional model are included. (Author)

Human relations skills are more widely taught and used, and inevitably misused. This aritcle is intended as a brief self-defense course identifying those who undergo this usually temporary, metamorphosis into "turkeys." It provides a rough categorization of subspecies with their identifying characteristics and a proposal for return to personhood.…