In response to the increasing demand for mental health services on campus, this comprehensive college counseling handbook provides strategies for clinical and support services work with diverse student populations. Written from a holistic, sociocultural perspective for future and current professionals, it brings together information and resources…

Notes that counselors in all settings must understand marketing principles and be able to apply them ethically and effectively. Contends that marketing may benefit counselors by helping to maintain their position as service providers, enhance the image of counseling services, and meet increasing demands for counselor accountability. Suggests…

Presents a strategy for teaching group counseling skills to beginning group leaders in which leaders receive on-the-spot, unplanned feedback from an "assistant coach" (counselor educator) that seems to foster learning. Presents portions of an actual group counseling transcript. (Author/PVV)

Discusses ways in which multidimensional scaling can be used by counseling practitioners. Presents brief conceptual overview and describes application of multidimensional scaling in vocational, family, and group settings. Includes a case study of the author's use of multidimensional scaling as an intervention in counselor training groups. Also…

This handbook is one of four handbooks developed for preservice and inservice counselor preparation and professional development. It was developed as a practical guide for practicing professionals and as a textbook or supplementary material for use in courses or workshops on consultation. Chapter 1 provides an introduction to consultation,…

This handbook is one of four handbooks developed for preservice and inservice counselor preparation and professional development. It was developed as a practical guide which will provide resources for counselor educators to use with students in practicum and internship settings in their training programs. It is also appropriate for use by…

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…

The first part of this two-part book on counseling techniques emphasizes techniques for counselor training and individual counseling. Chapter 1 defines counseling and includes a rating scale for determining effectiveness of counselor performance. Chapter 2 provides a presentation of the composition of an effective initial counseling interview and…

New and experienced school counselors will find this handbook to be a valuable resource that addresses most of the challenging situations they confront everyday. "Top 10 Topics" will also interest counselor educators who train graduate students to do group-work. This book is filled with reproducible activities, in-depth discussion questions,…

Asserts that intensive family simulation provides a bridge between classroom role plays and supervised practicums in family-therapy training. Presents such a simulation method and describes specific techniques in three distinct phases of intensive family simulation: family building, therapy simulation, and debriefing. (Author/NB)

Focuses on the "here-and-now" interactional experience in group counseling, and elaborates on the importance of counselors preparing members for this dynamic to optimize active participation. Reviews norms of group behaviors and possible leader responses, process illumination methods, and preparation of a written guide for members. (PVV)

Presents training format that encourages mental health counselors to address their own comfort with sexuality and then offers specific concepts for working with sexually active clients. Presents five areas: counselor comfort with sexuality, sexuality assessment tools, societal values about sexuality, treatment approaches to clients' sexual issues,…

This book presents a practical guide on how to improve the communication and cultural awareness among culturally different people. It is organized into three parts which correspond to the three stages of multicultural development: awareness, knowledge, and skills. The first part emphasize the awareness of culturally learned opinions, attitudes,…

Calls raw data supervision important component in family therapy training. Sees such supervision as difficult to implement, especially when therapists and supervisors live great distance from each other. Presents technique for providing videotape supervision via long-distance telephone. Presents advantages and problems of this technique. Discusses…

Describes how family sculpting, grounded in Experiential Family Counseling, can be used as a training technique in marriage and family counselor training programs. Provides detailed guidelines for conducting family sculpting. A case study is included. (Author/NB)