Reviews emergence of counseling supervision as a professional speciality. Explains need for standards of training and practice. Describes process by which "Standards for Counseling Supervisors" came into existence. Discusses current and potential options for their implementation. (Author)

Proposes pragmatic agenda for future developmental supervision research and a "moratorium" on new or improved developmental supervision models, self-reports, and on research limited to academic settings. Encourages researchers to explore pragmatic questions about actual conduct of effective counseling supervision. (Author/CM)

Explored full range of a female counseling student's in-session cognitions by categorizing the content and themes of her cognitions during an entire, nonsimulated session. Findings suggest that beginning counseling students may have few intentional or self-instructive thoughts during a session. (Author/NB)

The merits of peer group supervision have been advocated widely, but the actual practice has been described infrequently. The structured peer group format is a model that provides an organizational structure and a systematic procedure for conducting peer groups. In application, the approach can be adapted to match the developmental levels of the…

Investigated influence of ego development on in-session cognitions of 27 supervisees at the same experience level, using the Sentence Completion Test (SCT) of Ego Development (Loevinger and Wessler, 1970). Results indicated no significant effects of ego level on time, place, focus, locus, or orientation of retrospections. (TE)

Describes a course in which counseling students were taught the scientist-practitioner model, giving them an opportunity to integrate theory, research, and practice. Several themes arose from the students' experiences: analysis of contradictory responses; an enhanced awareness that they should increase their awareness of clients' perceptions; and…