The doctoral comprehensive examination is still the most often used method of evaluating doctoral students for candidacy. Widespread dissatisfaction, however, on the part of both professors and students continues. This article gives suggestions for improving the written portion of the doctoral comprehensive examination. (Author)

Extends Pate and High's study of Council for the Accreditation of Counseling and other Related Education Program (CACREP) accredited programs. Focusing on the attention given to religion and spirituality in programs accredited by several different counselor and therapist-training accrediting bodies, found that many programs do not address client…

Explores the relationship between Helms'"womanist identity" attitudes and the mental health of black and of white women. Results showed that black women and white women have different patterns of responses to both womanist and mental health scales. Discusses limitations of the study, and implications for counseling and education. (RB)

Describes a process of feedback in which a supervisor challenges a trainee's point of view regarding some aspect of the trainee by pointing out strengths which that individual may not be aware of. It is suggested that the process should help counselor trainees identify and use their strengths more fully. (RJM)

Examined the current status of ethnic faculty representation and hiring practices in counselor education programs. Results from chairpersons of 66 counselor education programs indicated that minority faculty members were underrepresented and hired at a slower rate than were nonminority faculty members. Results were mixed in terms of advancement…

This article asserts that personal counseling is a valuable growth experience for counselors in training. A decision tree is provided, along with guidelines for the supervisor's use in recommending personal counseling to enhance the training and development of students. (Author/TE)

Discusses and critically examines three issues that affect research in counselor education and supervision: mentoring practitioners, methodological diversity, and funding. Calls for counselor educators to improve research training counselors receive, particularly in area of treatment effectiveness. Urges counselor educators to provide mentoring to…

Surveyed 32 master's degree programs in rehabilitation counseling to determine inclusion of curriculum content on learning disabilities before 1981 and alterations in curriculum after 1981 when eligibility for vocational rehabilitation services through state and federal vocational rehabilitation systems were extended to persons with learning…

Conceptualizes the process of conducting integrative research reviews as a data-gathering, empirically based procedure and offers guidelines for conducting such reviews. Introduces specific suggestions that were heretofore unaddressed. Maintains that efforts to standardize integrative review process and to ensure its scientific rigor in counselor…

Drawing on earlier research, presents the stages of counselors' cognitive flow (what counselors are thinking). Describes associated techniques that can be used by supervisors of any theoretical orientation to teach supervisees working with couples to be aware of and modify their thought processes in sessions. (RJM)

Presents the need for a shared understanding of the tasks and purposes of supervision for the emerging professions of counseling and psychotherapy. Reviews progress in these areas and includes a brief account of the initiatives taken by the British Association for Counselling. Makes suggestions for working with trainee counselors and a plea for…

Transcription of an interview with Emmy van Deurzen-Smith, a noted and influential female counselor. Discusses van Deurzen-Smith's emigration from France, her start in counseling in Great Britain, and some of her career challenges. She is a Dutch counselor trained in France who emigrated to Great Britain in 1985. Today, she is the director of…

This reaction to S. C. Whiston and K. J. Coker (2000) discusses the research-training gap in counselor education and proposes an evidence-based model of clinical training. Asserts the importance of clinical training and education to the profession of counseling and argues that counselor educators may be inadvertently contributing to the gap…

Despite three decades of affirmative action efforts, counseling programs continue to struggle with the challenge of recruiting and retaining African American women faculty. African American women in general, and African American female professors in particular, have emerged from what Hudson-Weems (1989) terms as a tripartite form of oppression, of…

This article describes results of a national questionnaire completed by counselor education program professors regarding their teaching of ethics. The questionnaire asked professors about 5 aspects of ethics education: materials used, instructional methods used, content taught, methods of evaluation used, and professors' goals for the ethics…