This study analyzed aspects of the supervisory conference that uses the vehicle of microteaching to improve supervisor behavior. Six members of a Principles and Practices of Secondary Teaching class assumed the role of teacher in the microteaching situation, and graduate students enrolled in a Principles of Educational Supervision course performed…

This study failed to support earlier findings that jargon as a behavioral cue and assigned prestige as an external cue can be manipulated to affect perceived helper expertness. Several interpretations are drawn from the lack of hypothesized effect in the present study. (Author)

Describes the instructional development of two related courses: Managerial Finance, a personalized system of instruction; and Finance, Learning Theories, and Practices, a practicum. Student evaluations of both courses were conducted, focusing on student tutors and the systems of instruction. (VT)

Journalism Central, a joint effort of the Journalism Association of Ohio Schools and the Ohio State University School of Journalism, responded to the school closing crisis of the winter of 1977 with an intensive two-day interviewing and news-writing session for high-school journalists. (MKM)

The authors describe a practicum for nursing students in the junior year, located in a local Head Start Center. The nursing students monitored children's health and development and taught basic health education concepts to the children. (CH)

Responds to Holloway and Roehlke's article on training counseling psychologists by questioning whether psychology is maintaining its viability in the midst of changing professional times and whether psychologists are being prepared to meet the ever-changing needs of society. (ABB)

Examined the validity of an elaboration of Stoltenberg's developmental counseling supervision model. The Supervision Level Scale classified predominant developmental level of supervisees and supervision environments. Supervisee developmental level and supervision environment level were related to mean semesters of supervisee-supervised counseling…

The supervisory relationship provides a model for ethical behavior for the supervisee in addition to being an important adjunct of counseling. Ethical issues involved in supervision are raised for potential resolution by the profession in an effort to protect the supervisor and supervisee and to enhance the quality of supervision. (Author/BL)

Two primary sources of beginning counselor worries are identified: (1) concern for one's competence as a counselor and a person and (2) worry about the increasing intimacy involved in discussing the emotional life of a client. A catalog of possible humorous responses of beginning counselors is provided, and each response is illustrated with an…

Summarizes information gathered in a national survey of the course offerings and programs in marriage and family counseling offered by 244 counselor education departments. Approximately two-thirds of those departments offered such courses. Approximately 90 percent of the departments supported marriage and family course offerings in counselor…

This article provides an overview of the issues and problems in developing consultation skills and outlines a supervisory model that can be employed by practicum and internship supervisors interested in developing consultation skills. Reactions to the model are given by Jewelle Taylor Gibbs (cross-cultural perspective), Dick Dustin, and Walter B.…

The results of a study designed to assess the function of feedback and instruction on experimental groups show that all experimental conditions increased counselor trainees' empathic responses significantly. (Author/RP)

An overview of a two-week practicum-laboratory training program is presented and discussed. The efficacy of the training is examined from the standpoint of helpful levels of empathy presented by the employment service counselors trained. (Author)

This paper describes a workshop designed to teach the methodology of constructing family theory. In Phase I students dealt with metatheoretical issues (nature and types of theory, elements of theory structure, criteria by which theories can be evaluated, etc.). Phase II was a critical examination of several family theory building attempts. In…

This study attempted to measure the generalization of the counseling skills learned via the microcounseling paradigm to the actual counseling setting. Results indicated that experimental subjects evidence greater learning and retention of skills in reflection of feeling and summarization of feeling. (Author)