Dr. Trish Hatch has served as a leader in school counselor policy and advocacy for over 30 years. As a co-author of the ASCA National Model, Dr. Hatch has worked tirelessly to establish school-based policies to promote the profession of school counseling at the district, state, and federal levels. This interview serves to provide readers with…

This interview is the second in the Lifetime Achievement in Counseling Series at TPC that presents an annual interview with a seminal figure who has attained outstanding achievement in counseling over a career. I am honored to present the interview of Amy King, a school counselor in Mississippi and the first practitioner to be interviewed for this…

The predoctoral relationship that counseling psychology programs have had with master's programs over the decades is being challenged in current times. A model that is developing is one that provides greater responsibility for program definition and then full faculty engagement from doctoral program faculty. With change occurring in training…

Focusing on the challenges of training counseling psychologists, Ridley and colleagues offer in this issue a review and critique of microskills training, the dominant training model in counseling psychology graduate programs. Recognizing the role of higher order cognitive and affective functions in expert practice, they propose a hierarchical…

The authors articulate the need for a "Counseling Psychology Model Training Values Statement Addressing Diversity" (henceforth "Values Statement"). They discuss the historic unwillingness of the field to address values in a sophisticated or complex way and highlight the increasingly common training scenario in which trainees state that certain…

The complex interpersonal process that makes up counseling includes dimensions of interviewing skill, assessing the present concerns of the client, understanding dynamics of behavior and change, and the employment of a repertoire of techniques and appropriate interventions. This complexity requires integration, either explicitly in a theoretical…

Provides a professional model for practicum supervision using supervisors with equal responsibility and status. The model stresses the use of professional knowledge in both the content and process of practicum supervision. Dual-focus supervision is seen as the integration and application of theory congruency and interpersonal dynamics. (Author/BL)

Goodyear, Wertheimer, Cypers, and Rosemond refine Ronnestad and Skovholt's counselor development model and some of its implications. Fouad's reaction to the articles in this issue describes how counselors' careers develop and the implications for training. Contains 16 and 9 references respectively. (SK)

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…

Focuses on some cross-cultural aspects involved in the process of transposing models of training from one setting to another. Discusses the development of indigenous modes of therapist training in terms of the availability of experts, money, time of both trainees and trainers, and the institutional settings where they are housed. (BH)

Outlines tenets of multimodal therapy (MMT) and argues for its cost-effective yet comprehensive value as a brief psychotherapy model. Describes MMT as an integrated, seven-modality model of personality and provides clinical examples of its use. Argues that MMT approach will be an important future alternative to more expensive, time-consuming, and…

Addresses three issues of concern to mental health counseling profession: professional identity, curricular expectations, and degree differentiation. Sees "mental health counseling" as preferred term for the profession as a whole. Sees 60-hour master's degree as terminal program, with doctorate expanding master's-level competencies in effort to…

Identifies sources of anxiety in live counseling supervision. Offers six guidelines for minimizing anxiety: (1) negotiate clear training contract; (2) match method to supervise developmental stage; (3) directly address anxiety and fear; (4) develop collaborative supervisory attitude; (5) create positive evaluative focus; and (6) encourage…

Reports on a qualitative study of perceived needs of counselors in training at Southeast Missouri State University and proposes a model of graduate education to meet local and global needs that is comprised of: (1) curriculum enhancement; (2) partnership between the university and a professional development school; (3) international professional…

Discusses similarities between group and family modalities, then goes on to explore the application of training methods from family therapy supervision to group work. Reviews several family training models which may be useful for training group counselors and supervisors. (Author/NB)