This article examines the nature and impact of paradoxical situations in counsellor education. The counsellor educator and trainee are the focus for defining and then examining these dilemmas. (Author)

The author comments on papers presented on counselor education for blacks. He hopes that continued discussion will stimulate educators to develop more relevant counselor education programs for black counselors. (BY)

The author argues that the counselor training program as well as the traditional role of the counselor must change to meet new demands. University personnel must take some leadership in the process. (BY)

Counselors in training need to be involved on an experience level with the disadvantaged with these experiences related to courses. Practicums should include employment service experiences, especially with adolescents. (KH)

Reviews articles in a 2001 special issue of Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology (A. Brenes & M. Wessells, 2001b) devoted to building cultures of peace. Counselor educators are offered suggestions on how to prepare counselors to successfully create cultures of peace in a variety of communities. (Contains 21 references.) (GCP)

Explores the strategies used by programs accredited by the Council for Accreditation of Counseling and Related Educational Programs (CACREP) to recruit and retain ethnic minority faculty. Results indicated that many programs have not developed specific recruitment or retention strategies, but that mentoring was the most frequently reported…

Study of addictive behavior is charged with ideology. Preparation of professionals demands awareness of "hidden lenses" of ideology and characteristics such as dogmatism and rigidity, oversimplification, reductionism, and dualistic thinking. Emotional investment in ideology makes it difficult to introduce threatening "heretical" teachings or…

Incorporating spirituality within a wellness paradigm can help counselors and counselor educators value and address spirituality as an integral component of optimum human functioning. By distinguishing between religiosity and spirituality and operationally conceptualizing spirituality as a lifespan developmental phenomenon that is essential for…

Presents a message from the president of Association for Counselor Education and Supervision on ways to improve counselor education. Encourages counselor educators to be more specific in attempts to produce qualified individuals for professorial ranks in counselor education and suggests that required internship in teaching, writing, and research…

Contends that counseling/therapy is more complicated than it may first appear. Urges counselors/therapists trained in limited areas to place their specific techniques within a general, comprehensive counseling framework. Stresses that failing to do so makes counselors/therapists limited in what treatment they can provide. (CM)

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…

Notes that Donald Super, who died in 1994, was member of National Career Development Association for 60 years. Structured around five stages in Super's life stage model and narrated in language of vocational development tasks that he identified and researched, tells story of Super's career development and extrapolates themes in his career as…

Family therapy educators listed most critical/basic skills/competencies of beginning family therapists with transgenerational orientation. Self-selected respondents then rated items according to importance for beginning therapists. Found transgenerational family therapy skills founded in theory and identifiable behaviorally. Most important skills…

Master and doctoral students attending CACREP accredited counselor education programs participated in this research study. Of the 189 CACREP accredited programs invited to participate, 21% of the programs had students responding Each participant completed the Multicultural Counseling Inventory and The Counselor Self-Efficacy Scale. Significant…

The importance of consultation content and rehabilitation counselor educators' proficiency in teaching consultation content were explored. In addition, this study addressed whether educators' perceptions of importance differed according to demographic characteristics. Faculty members from National Council on Rehabilitation Education (NCRE)…