With character education as one of the fastest growing reform movements in education today, counselor educators and counseling students need to be informed and cognizant of various character education programs. Currently, more than 30 states mandate some aspect of character education and school counselors are frequently responsible for introducing…

Although demand for more counselor educators doesn't appear strong over the next decade, there seems to be a steady need for replacements in the areas of schools, higher education, rehabilitation, and employment. The larger need over the decade seems to be for counselor educators with special skills in these areas: Inservice Training, Career…

Counselors, psychotherapists, and counselor educators completed a modified repertory test. Contrary to previous findings, presumed positive and negative affect role constructs of significant others did not produce significant differences. The role constructs--boss and person you'd like to help--previously presumed to be negative affect role…

This short article describes innovations in the counseling practicum at Ball State University. Such innovations include the setting up of a laboratory (wherein students spend at least four hours per week engaging in activities such as tape critiquing, encounter, and discussion), supervision of prepracticum by practicum students, and the use of a…

Although empathic understanding is widely taught, there is very little commonality among trainers in terms of what they teach their students to be empathic to. In this article the author presents a general conceptual set that may be applied to any statement a person makes. (Author)

This discussion of the evolution of student personnel workers and their plight as budgets have been tightened gives suggestions of ways this group could use their human relations expertise to recover from their current condition of institutional impotence. (JC)

Joint appointments appear to be accepted as a workable solution to the problem of staffing. It would seem that the necessary ingredients for successful joint appointments are rapport and coordination between student personnel directors and counselor educators. (Author)

Despite limitations in the results of the present study, these results were tentatively interpreted to indicate that the Tests of Social Intelligence have potential worth for further investigation in the identification of counselor trainees. (Author)

A two-media program of instruction was developed for teaching the basic components of emphatic skill. Treatment subjects demonstrated significantly higher performance on the Michigan State Affective Sensitivity Scale than control subjects. (Author)

This article describes an instrument, Recorded Counselee Narratives, used to collect counselor responses over the telephone and an instrument, Counselor Preference Survey, developed to evaluate such responses. Possible uses of the instruments in evaluation of applicants for graduate counselor education programs, lay counselors, and telephone…

An investigation was made to determine the interrater reliability and validity of peer evaluations in a practicum setting. The interrater reliability on the Rating Scale of Counselor Effectiveness was high. Differences in absolute scores between student and supervisor were significant with students consistently rating their peers higher. (Author)

This study investigated the effects of two supervisory roles when used within the small group practicum seminar, on counselor trainees' ability to emit understanding, affective, and exploratory responses in their final counseling interviews. Significant differences were observed only in the ability of the trainees to emit understanding responses.…

Attempts are being made to gear courses to meet needs of those studying to counsel in elementary schools. Need to improve programs is recognized. (Author/EK)

The study surveyed a sample of counselors and counselor trainers to determine the opinions of both regarding the content of a curriculum for community college counselors. (Author)