Responds to previous four articles on counseling lesbians and gay men. Focuses remarks on issues pertaining to training of counseling psychologists. Asserts that integration of gay and lesbian affirmative material into courses requires that instructors themselves possess requisite knowledge and belief that such material is legitimate and…

Examined effects of leader versus member deliverer status, member defensiveness level, and group development stage on corrective feedback acceptance among 36 graduate students in counseling who participated in training groups emphasizing counseling skill development and personal growth. Although measures of acceptance discriminated between levels…

Developed Counseling Self-Estimate Inventory through five studies. Factor analysis yielded five factors that reflected counselor trainees' confidences in using microskills, attending to process, dealing with difficult client behaviors, behaving in culturally competent way, and being aware of one's values. Items were internally consistent and…

Describes the experiences of new teaching assistants, their orientation, and first days in class. Discusses what they learned about teaching, grading, and their students. (PRA)

Describes a role-play exercise that offers an experiential means to teach counseling students about process consultation. Claims exercise provides an experiential framework for understanding the role of the consultant but also illustrates the complexity of interpersonal dynamics within an existing organization. (ABL)

Used Classification System for Counseling Responses to analyze verbal behaviors of four male and four female beginning counselor trainees and their clients. Results provided limited support for hypothesis that counselor trainees would show significant differences in types of verbal responses used across thirds of sessions. Findings provided some…

Semistructured interviews with 15 masters-level biology students revealed that most proposed deterministic explanations of evolutionary processes, ignored the role of chance, seemed unaware of debates over deterministic versus probabilistic models of evolution, and confused evolutionary theory (a model) with the actual complex processes it…

Explored relationship between counselor trainee anger-proneness and anger discomfort and trainees' reactions to angry client. Thirty-eight trainees viewed and gave reactions to videotape of angry client-actress. Trainee anger-proneness and anger discomfort scores were positively and significantly related to discomfort with and anger toward the…

Discusses various types of gender bias in criteria and use of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Third Edition, Revised (DSM-III-R) by counselors. Provides recommendations for addressing such bias in counselor training. Contends that bias can be minimized to extent that counselors appreciate strengths and limitations of…

Outlines method of fostering self-exploration and group interaction among counselors-in-training. Describes lifeline process as having students draw horizontal line with dot at each end representing their birth and death, drawing dot to represent where they presently are on lifeline, and recording positive and negative experiences chronologically…

Explored effects of expressed attributions regarding personal blame for disability on perceived rehabilitation outcomes. Rehabilitation graduate students (n=84) viewed one of six versions of alleged vocational evaluation report. Perceived accuracy of attribution, client's predicted coping, rehabilitation prognosis, and future life control varied…

Discussed is the idea that professors are still teaching science in much the same way they were taught 20 or more years ago but that students are no longer connecting to the methodology. The arrogance of professors and the curriculum are proposed as turnoffs to science education. (KR)

Challenges Donald C. Stewart's assertion that "a good number" of graduate school English majors teach freshman composition. Suggests that only a small minority of these students enter college teaching. Argues that college English departments should not limit student options by setting more specific course requirements within the major.…

Suggests that criticism of Donald C. Stewart's assertion that many English majors enter teaching stems from a misunderstanding. Argues that Stewart simply proposes making graduate students more aware of recent developments within the field. Questions critics' claim that few graduate-level English majors enter college teaching. (SG)

Presents the results of a survey assessing the state-of-the-art of graduate teaching assistant training. Indicates that speech communication departments are leading the way in the proportion that train but not in the breadth or scope of that training. (SR)