In this autoethnography inquiry, seven counselor educators from diverse intersectionalities discuss how they leverage their selfhood to promote antiracist counselor education. Based on two cycles of pattern coding, the authors identified themes of perceiving, experiencing, creating, and facilitating. Implications for future research and practice…

Counselor educators maintain a responsibility for providing site supervisors with professional development opportunities (Council for Accreditation of Counseling and Related Educational Programs. [2009]). The goal of this study was to evaluate a model for providing preparation to site supervisors. Significant differences were observed from pretest…

The Experiential Consultation Training Model (ECTM) provides students an opportunity to develop and practice consultation skills through real-life experiences in actual professional settings. The authors present the structure, process, and evaluation methods of the ECTM and discuss practical applications for counselor education. (Contains 1 table.)

This study explored the supervision training needs of site supervisors of master's program school counseling interns via the construct of self-efficacy. Using the Site Supervisor Self-Efficacy Survey developed for this study, the authors surveyed school counseling site supervisors in the states of Oregon and Washington (N = 147) regarding their…

Social justice in the education of all K-12 students begins with school counselors; preparing school counselors as advocates and leaders who can implement these principles in U.S. schools begins with counselor educators. Suggestions for intentional preparation of school counselors to be social justice advocates in schools by integrating the…

Examines rationale, methods, strengths, and limitations of using fiction in training family counselors. Suggests that using novels, essays, poems, and extended metaphors is a nonthreatening means of teaching human nature and values. Discusses bibliotherapy as a counseling intervention. Describes and evaluates a teaching model utilizing fiction.…

Describes how student-conducted and videotaped initial family interviews can provide a common frame of reference for learning family systems theories. States that videotape playback can be negative experience for some students. Describes and evaluates a teaching model utilizing videotape playback of initial family interviews. Includes 36…

Article identifies contextual teaching and learning as an important pedagogical tool that can be applied to counselor education, and argues that it provides a theoretical rationale for many teaching and learning interventions. Describes contextual teaching and learning and applies its five major components to counselor education. (Contains 53…

Counselor trainees were assigned to two groups (a) the experimental group, training in nondefensive communication, and (b) the control group, no training period. Results showed that the experimental subjects demonstrated a significant reduction in defensive behavior. Significant differences were found for the pre- and postchange scores between the…

Describes the reflecting team model as a group learning experience for counselor trainees. Approach permits trainees to give and receive immediate feedback on perceptions and learn about intervention strategies for working with couples. Discusses evaluation of the model utilizing The Family Therapist Trainee Rating Scale. (Author/CRR)

Presents a model hierarchy of questioning skills in counseling situations, developed to facilitate training of counseling students. Identifies question types and assesses their effectiveness along a continuum. Discusses implications of the mechanisms through which effective questions can be taught in terms of present theoretical assumptions and…

This article explains the rationale, development, and use of a simulation approach to training counselors in which videotaped vignettes of critical incidents that occur in the course of establishing and maintaining a helping relationship are presented to trainees as stimuli. (Author)

The practice of reflection can facilitate self-understanding and enhance counselor performance by creating new opportunities for learning. Counselor educators can facilitate reflective thinking in students through the practices of Socratic questioning, journal writing, interpersonal Process Recall, and reflecting teams. The pedagogical methods are…

Three factors, attention, retention, and action, are considered in developing good video models. A discussion of each factor and specific techniques counselors can use to develop good effects of each factor are provided. (Author)

Surveys research published over a 12-year period on skill-training programs used to enhance the interpersonal effectiveness of counselors. Describes, analyzes, and synthesizes significant patterns in the content and format of training programs and highlights the strengths and limitations in research methodology employed. (BH)