Counselor education literature suggests that part of counselor training is personal growth and that counselor education should be dealing with personal issues that may hinder the effectiveness of counselor trainees in a clinical setting. An ongoing discussion of effective interventions has presented a variety of suggestions for intervention by…

Several ideas are presented as a rationale for the existence of research teams in master's level counseling programs. Research teams provide master's level counseling students with a heightened sense of awareness, value of, and interest in the process of inquiry, development of meaningful research questions, and testing of hypotheses. Students are…

The author studies the self-concepts of women graduate students during their doctoral studies. Discusses difficulties and rewards experienced in the process of superimposing a new professional role on their already assumed wife-mother role. (Editors/AS)

Although no single Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory scale was found to differentiate between subject clinical effectiveness groups, the subjects' MMPI profiles were found to predict accurately the clinical effectiveness groups to which the subjects were assigned. (Author)

Uses 12 subscale scores on the Personal Orientation Inventory to assess effects of a practicum experience upon self-actualization of 79 University of Alberta graduate students (counseling students with and without practicum, and noncounseling students). Results indicate a facilitative effect of practicum upon self-actualization. (AH)

Examined the relationship between reading comprehension, reading vocabulary, and five dimensions of library anxiety: barriers with staff, affective barriers, comfort with the library, knowledge of the library, and mechanical barriers. Participants were 45 African American graduate students from various disciplines who were given the Library…

Describes how the United Automobile Workers has become a major force in organizing college teaching assistants. (EV)

Discussion pf the stress associated with the educational use of games and simulations focuses on a study of graduate students that used the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator to determine that people with certain personality types experience stress at different intensities. Also found that all participants, regardless of personality type, needed…

Uses single-group pretest-posttest design to examine the impact of problem-based learning (PBL) on problem-framing ability of students enrolled in the Prospective Principals Program at Stanford University. Finds that the greater the students' exposure to PBL the greater their problem-framing ability. (Contains 30 references.) (PKP)

In this qualitative study, 13 master's-level counseling interns were interviewed to understand their perceptions of caring in the counseling relationship. Results suggest that these interns perceive that supporting desired outcomes, a personal capacity for caring, maintaining therapeutic conditions, mutuality in the counseling relationship, and a…

A study of wellness among 263 graduate students in counseling revealed that counseling students experienced greater wellness than the general population; however, significant within-group variability existed. Doctoral students reported significantly greater wellness in most areas measured by the Wellness Evaluation of Lifestyle as compared with…

Describes the use of role play in creating an experiential learning environment for graduate students enrolled in a comparative evaluation theory course or an evaluation procedures course. The exercises require students to learn by "doing" in a safe environment. (SLD)

It is argued that the visual knowledge of smoothly curved surfaces can be defined in terms of local, non-metric order relations as well as point-by-point mappings of metric depth and/or orientation relative to the observer. A series of experiments with eight graduate students supports this theory. (SLD)