Refers to misunderstandings of client-centered theory and attempts to explain how client-centered supervision works. Notes that a client-centered supervisor sets explicit standards for student behavior and, on basis of those standards, evaluates particular behaviors of a supervisee while still relating to trainee as person worthy of respect. (NB)

Responding to Joe Smith's unfavorable comments concerning Texas' alternative certification program in the November 1991 issue of "Educational Leadership," this article claims the Texas program is highly successful, thanks to school-university cooperation and closely supervised teacher interns. New Jersey's failures cannot be likened to…

Presents four exercises for family therapy educators to use in facilitating family therapy education and supervision that offer rapprochement between systems and individual conceptualizations, according to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders III-Revised. Presents rationale, descriptions and examples for each exercise…

Discusses major ethical issues related to training and supervising counseling practitioners including transference, dependency, and power in the supervisory relationship, dual relationship, stereotyping, and the imposition of the supervisors' beliefs on the supervisee. Identifies suggestions for lessening the threat of ethical violations. (Author)

Investigated live supervision in counselor preparation programs by surveying 307 counselor preparation programs. Live supervision was used at 157 institutions and was used in preparing individual, group, and marriage and family counselors. At least 75 percent of programs provided live supervision weekly. Techniques of cotherapy and remote viewing…

Responding to four critiques of his article, "Toward a Scholarship of Practice," published in the Spring 1990 issue of the "Journal," the author welcomes further discussion of his ideas. Frances Bolin's remarks concerning needed societal changes were appreciated, but Patricia Holland's overemphasis on hermeneutics is not the author's cup of tea.…

Discourse or conversation analysis represents a new direction for understanding the nature of social interaction during the supervisory (or peer) instructional conference. Discourse analysis may be a key to mechanisms involved in institutional management and individual improvement. Supervisors cannot assume that successful conferences necessarily…

Laws that govern society also govern the workplace. Understanding how rights have expanded will give managers insight into the social and legal principles that govern the workplace. (JOW)

Presents three supervision modalities applicable to training marital and family counselors: live supervision, delayed review supervision (audiotape and videotape), and supervision through verbal reports. Discusses goals, supervisory considerations, advantages, and disadvantages of each modality. Concludes that key in using modalities is to…

Interviews 19 Quaker counselors or psychotherapists to explore the impact their spiritual beliefs have on their work. Their faith impacted their work in several ways: it helped them understand their clients' spiritual journey, underpinned their work, and gave them inspiration and spiritual preparation before sessions. For a minority of respondents…

Interviews with 14 professionals investigated whether and how they learned from mistakes, appropriate and inappropriate learning, and acceptance of personal responsibility. Gender differences were found: women tended to internalize blame and sought to make things right; men tended to externalize blame and sought to minimize fallout. (SK)

Describes the benefits of clinical supervision as perceived by school guidance officers who work in a large Australian education authority. The benefits of and reasons for clinical supervision described by the participants raise questions about the cost of inadequate supervision to the individual counselors themselves and to the profession as a…

Explores the implications of working with an impaired supervisor at various levels of counselor development and discusses some of the critical factors that may influence how a supervisee decides to handle this problem. Presents an ethical decision making model that can be used to guide the counselor trainee through the arduous process of…

A well-developed and researched conceptual framework exists for identifying undergraduate students' conceptions of learning. In addition, research has been reported on teachers' conceptions of teaching as they relate to their conceptions of learning. The research reported in this paper takes the existing framework into a new area, postgraduate…

Although feminist supervision approaches have been advanced in the literature as alternatives or adjuncts to traditional supervision models, little is known about those who utilize feminist supervision practices. This study was designed to examine if feminist supervision practices were related to one's own feminist identity and various beliefs…