One in five children experiences a diagnosable mental disorder. However, adolescents have been overlooked in programming and policy responses to mental health issues. Mental health issues contribute to poor academic performance, lower rates of high school graduation, disrupted development, increased health risk, role transition from adolescent to…

New England's long winter and seemingly interminable wait for spring has this author thinking about what colleges could do with their campuses during the summer. The options are almost infinite, although the cost-benefit analysis clearly varies. For some students, being on campus in the summer is preferable to going home, where the environments…

This article offers additional support for Hansen's (2012) position that humanism and a renewed respect for human complexity are essential to counseling. In the article, the author also speaks to the critical importance of continuing to ground the profession in art and science. Implications for the future of humanism and counseling are presented.

Larry Golden started the marriage and family therapy program at Our Lady of the Lake University and was founding chair of the Department of Counseling at the University of Texas at San Antonio. He has contributed substantially to the literature in marriage and family counseling. This interview secured his unique perspective on developments in the…

Alan J. Hovestadt, EdD, is the immediate past president of the 24,000 member American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy (AAMFT) and a long-time IAMFC member who served as an IAMFC founding board member when American Counseling Association (ACA) first granted International Association of Marriage and Family Counselors (IAMFC) divisional…

Presents interview with Ralph Bedell, professor emeritus of educational and counseling psychology in order to gain insight into the influence of the National Defense Counseling and Guidance Institutes on the history of counseling and to learn about the man who was responsible for the National Defense Education Act program. (Author/ABL)

Presents interview with Ralph Bedell, professor emeritus of educational and counseling psychology in order to gain insight into the influence of the National Defense Counseling and Guidance Institutes on the history of counseling and to learn about the man who was responsible for the National Defense Education Act program. (Author/ABL)

Examines supervision from attributional perspective. Conceptualizes counselor supervision as interactional process in which trainees learn to describe and manage cause-effect relationships. Reviews attribution theory and discusses common biases and errors in attribution process. Proposes interventions to help supervisors minimize influence of…

Focuses on the contributions of Merle Ohlsen to the development of the counseling profession and to the American Association for Counseling and Development. Interviews Ohlsen about his early work history; professional organizations; professional issues including training, mentoring, and individual and group counseling; and the enrichment between…

The article is a personal and professional account by 2 counselor educators who worked together as professional school counselors in the same high school setting. Both reflect on the "storied" nature of their professional development and define participatory leadership in school counseling as emerging from engagement and participation in…

A hallmark of any profession is the degree to which it has advanced, through research, that body of knowledge which constitutes the core learnings and skills of the discipline. Counselor educators must first ascertain where they have been and what empirical evidence has influenced and provided the foundations for professional actions. A review of…

Study of addictive behavior is charged with ideology. Preparation of professionals demands awareness of "hidden lenses" of ideology and characteristics such as dogmatism and rigidity, oversimplification, reductionism, and dualistic thinking. Emotional investment in ideology makes it difficult to introduce threatening "heretical" teachings or…

Presents a message from the president of Association for Counselor Education and Supervision on ways to improve counselor education. Encourages counselor educators to be more specific in attempts to produce qualified individuals for professorial ranks in counselor education and suggests that required internship in teaching, writing, and research…

Contends that counseling/therapy is more complicated than it may first appear. Urges counselors/therapists trained in limited areas to place their specific techniques within a general, comprehensive counseling framework. Stresses that failing to do so makes counselors/therapists limited in what treatment they can provide. (CM)

Notes that Donald Super, who died in 1994, was member of National Career Development Association for 60 years. Structured around five stages in Super's life stage model and narrated in language of vocational development tasks that he identified and researched, tells story of Super's career development and extrapolates themes in his career as…