Describes an advanced training course for English teachers that attempts to help students reconsider and refocus their prior professional experience through sharing it with other professionals. Experience is reconsidered in the light of state-of-the-art understanding coming from linguistics and psychology. (Author)

A survey of counselor educators indicated that consultation topics and skills were taught to masters students in most of the reporting institutions. Professional role definitions of elementary/secondary school counselors continued to stress the importance of consultation skills. (JAC)

Assessed the effects of four components of the microcounseling model in acquisition of a counseling strategy, measured by a written test and role-play performance. Components included video models, role-play practice, peer feedback, and remediation role-play practice. All methods of training were equally effective promoting acquisition of…

The continued education of practicing counselors is essential. Equally as important is training of counselor educators who are knowledgeable about the settings in which their students will function. Proposes a model for achieving both tasks, one in which practicing counselors receive on-site supervision from counselor educators in training.…

Assesses the value system held by supervisors in the counseling practice. Results indicate a strong relationship between the supervisee's satisfaction with the supervisory relationship and the level of communication that was developed in supervision. (Author)

Counselors, enrolled in supervised counseling practica, participated in a study to assess subjective and physiological anxiety responses to counseling under different stimulus conditions. Tape-recording and supervisory evaluation did not increase the anxiety levels of participants. (Author)

The steps in successful practicum site selection and assignment for prospective special education teachers are discussed. (CL)

Pharmacy students in Florida may fulfill their internship requirements either by participating in this college-supervised practicum internship program or in the traditional 2080-hour internship program directed by the Florida Board of Pharmacy that requires 1,040 hours be completed before graduation. The practicum provides 400 hours. (LBH)

Little research has focused on the actual supervision session and its relationship to trainee functioning. Supervision dyads (N=19) were selected to study this relationship. There was no significant relationship between supervisors' empathy level in supervision and trainees' empathy level in therapy. (Author)

Three student teachers and four cooperating teachers described experiences of power and authority in the practicum situation. Students were acutely aware of teachers' power but teachers tended to describe relationships as collegial or pedagogical. Conceiving of the practicum relationship as deliberate or anthropogogical could help increase…

Investigated the teaching and learning responses of preservice teachers enrolled in a brief language arts field practicum prior to student teaching. Survey, observation, and journal data indicated that despite consistent efforts by university professors to help preservice teachers examine theory into practice during their practica, procedural…

Eight first-year nursing students in Hong Kong implemented a primary health care project involving health assessments of older adults. Clients improved health knowledge and were satisfied with assessments. Students demonstrated high competence in health assessment, needs assessment, evaluation strategies, and health promotion skills. (Contains 27…

Investigates the supervisor complexity model (SCM) using the Psychotherapy Supervisor Development Scale (PSDS) to ascertain development over a 15-week supervision practicum for 12 doctoral students. A set of retrospective interview questions produced responses used to investigate the viability of the 4 proposed discrete developmental stages in the…

Provides a conceptual framework for coordination of the practicum/internship program, viewing it as the management of a system. Identifies important components and explores their impact on the system. Suggests ways to fulfill the needs and demands of students, faculty, the university, the placement settings and their clients, and the counseling…

Argues that lack of clarity regarding roles, functions, and research of psychologists in inpatient and outpatient rehabilitation settings has prevented establishing guidelines for training graduate students to work in rehabilitative settings. Asserts that students should have core training in psychology and receive coursework and practica in…