This dissertation is prepared to explain the research conducted to study the extent of instruction that school psychology graduate students are receiving on strengths-based assessment in their training programs. Strengths-based assessment is the process of intentionally measuring strengths rather than solely measuring deficits. The positive…

Surveyed clinical psychology graduate students (N=17) to determine their perceptions of evaluation criteria and to compare these perceptions with criteria actually used. Results showed that 77 percent of the students either did not know the evaluation criteria or thought the evaluation was based on professors' personal biases. (LLL)

Counselor development from the beginning counselor to the master counselor has been researched as to the most beneficial model for describing the progression of the trainee. One developmental model, the Integrated Developmental Model, describes three stages plus an integrated fourth stage that a counseling trainee moves through from a beginning…

Examined adolescent perceptions of the counselor effectiveness of peer helpers by studying perceptions of videotaped simulated interviews. The subjects were 143 grade eleven students. The effects of training and role label were tested. Data indicated that adolescents perceive trained peer helpers as more facilitative than untrained helpers. (JAC)