Surveyed literature in family therapy, social work, and psychology to determine most important characteristics of beginning marriage and family therapist. Found that no set of skills could be derived empirically. Surveyed experienced counselor educators (N=372) to determine characteristics they found important. Found approximately one-half of the…

Reviews literature on multicultural counselor education. Reviews counselor training models from social-organizational and counseling psychology in terms of their focus on sensitizing counselors to cultural differences. Recommends that counselor training programs place more emphasis on assessment of counselors' cultural values and attitudes, the…

Four faculty members reflect individually and collectively on their lives and roles as educators. They recommend a deliberate process of self-reflection to other family-therapy educators and offer suggestions for improving the organizational dynamics of family-therapy training programs. (Author/MKA)

A sociocultural perspective for supervision uses the concepts of acculturation, apprenticeship, and reflective assessment to describe supervision in counselor education. Supervision can be viewed as an intersubjective process that revolves around solving ambiguous and unstructured problems; features include the coconstruction of shared meaning, a…

Reacts to earlier articles concerning lesbian, gay, bisexual (LGB) issues in graduate psychology programs. States that these articles demonstrate that psychology may be transitioning from the tolerance stage and is now moving toward the acceptance stage involving shared responsibility in promoting life adjustment and advancement of LGB people in…

Reacts to earlier articles concerning lesbian, gay, bisexual (LGB) issues in graduate psychology programs. Emphasizes these articles contribute to the literature regarding LGB issues and addresses implications for research, theory, and practice. Extends Laura Brown's lesbian-gay paradigm for psychology as it applies to these articles. (MKA)

Describes the ethical dilemmas in publication and provides recommendations for guidelines involving publication ethics. Counselors may be confronted with a variety of ethical dilemmas such as authorship issues, student-professor research, plagiarism, and other publication problems. The American Counseling Association's "Code of Ethics and…

Addresses issues of supervision for counselors in training who are moving from individual practice to systemic family sessions. Transition issues are identified and addressed. Recommendations for training in such areas as cotherapy, team approach, and basic skills applications in systemic models are offered. (Author/MKA)

Because many potential clients have religious as well as secular concerns, secular counselors and psychotherapists are striving to become more empathic and competent in treating religious individuals. This article discusses some issues and implications involved in working with religiously committed clients in secularly based counseling. (Contains…

States that six stages can explain the history of counseling in United States: (1) placement services offered for an industrial society (1890-1919); (2) educational guidance through public schools (1920-1939); (3) shift to college training of counselors (1940-1959); (4) work having meaning in people's lives (1960-1979); (5) shift from industrial…

Describes the process of how counseling theory is constructed in the classroom, deconstructed in the workplace, and then reconstructed to meet the unique needs of individual counselors. Marital and family counselor educators and students can both benefit from knowledge about this process. (Author/MKA)

Article provides suggestions for structuring and enacting clinical supervision of postacademic, prelicensed counselors. Includes information on initiating and formalizing supervisory relationships, assessing professional needs and facilitating professional development, and evaluation. Although directed primarily to supervisors and prospective…

Examines the evolution of the test and measurement field and the growing edumetric trend as it relates to counselors' skill level. Discusses three competencies that counselors must use for adult assessments at personal and career intake: training in good test-use practices, awareness of the shift in education from psychometric to edumetric models,…

Discusses how the City University of New York redesigned the Search for Education, Elevation, and Knowledge (SEEK) Program when funding was reduced. Graduate assistants were introduced into the program. The challenge was to develop methods of training the graduate assistants and to determine how to use them in a way that best served the SEEK…

Discusses traditional training techniques for students studying family therapy. Argues that psychotherapy has more to do with the therapist's personality than with the display of effective techniques. Supervision of clinicians should consist of helping them develop their innate skills rather than imposing on them a set of ready-made strategies.…