The Working Alliance Inventory of Supervisory Relationships (WAI-SR) was designed to evaluate the three factors--an agreement on goals, an assignment of tasks, and the development of a bond--of a working alliance between supervisor and trainee as proposed by Bordin (1983). The items for the WAI-SR were drawn from the Working Alliance Inventory and…

An integral part of the Project Approach is documentation of children's work. In the belief that instruction, modeling, and opportunities for application will help student teachers develop the knowledge, dispositions, and skills they will need to continue documentation practices, this paper discusses the strategies that have been useful in…

This practicum project defined the roles and responsibilities of parent cooperative preschool team members to help parents identify who was responsible for different functions in the co-op preschool. A 10-week intervention strategy was implemented to provide information and support to parents during the first 2 months of the school year.…

This paper outlines the purposes, professional obligations, and key components to consider when providing effective evaluation in psychotherapy supervision. An overview of various methods for gathering supervision data for evaluation purposes is provided including self-reporting; process notes; video and audiotaping; live observation; co-therapy;…

Counselor trainees' verbal behavior in two initial interview settings, one each with an active and passive client, was significantly different. Verbal behavior was viewed from two perspectives; along the dimension of broad classification by categories of behavior and along the dimension of 3-6 second units of verbal interaction. (Author)

Personality characteristics of effective paraprofessional counselor trainees were compared with those of effective counselor education students using a standardized personality inventory and the Counselor Evaluation Rating Scale. The effective paraprofessionals and the effective counselor education students in the study were remarkably similar in…

Discusses the philosophy, methods of implementation, experiences, and plans for future growth of a center whose purpose is the preparation of secondary English teachers. (RB)

This study investigated the effects of two supervisory roles when used within the small group practicum seminar, on counselor trainees' ability to emit understanding, affective, and exploratory responses in their final counseling interviews. Significant differences were observed only in the ability of the trainees to emit understanding responses.…

Peer ratings of counselors in a graduate practicum were explored. The nature and direction of the differences between the subjects ranked in the highest and lowest quarters by their peers suggested valid discriminations between graduate students of both sexes with regard to potential as counselors. (Author)

The study surveyed a sample of counselors and counselor trainers to determine the opinions of both regarding the content of a curriculum for community college counselors. (Author)

Simulation offers an opportunity to provide specific training emphases while offering a way of providing a wide range of counseling and guidance experiences not easily obtainable under regular practicum conditions. Specific examples are described. (Author)

This report describes a year long undergraduate course in community mental health, combining didactic and practicum elements. Reactions of installations and participants are reviewed and implications of this type of course model and orientation to training are considered. (Author)

Explored whether practicing supervisors (N=37) perceived themselves varying their supervision process across four trainee experience levels and whether supervisor demographic variables related to variance in the supervision process. Results showed that supervisors significantly varied supervisions between second and advanced practicum level…