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…

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)

States that counselors need to become more involved in program evaluation. Presents rationale for including training in program evaluation in counselor education programs. Contends that only by conducting program evaluations will counselor educators and supervisors become major players in public policy, planning, and social reform. (Author/NB)

Presents presidential address delivered at Association for Counselor Education and Supervision (ACES) luncheon during American Counseling Association's 1993 national convention. Vows to promote field of counselor education and supervision by addressing training needs, engaging in collaborative efforts to facilitate ACES goals, and advocating for…

Comments two responses to author's article "Listening for the Voices of Care and Justice in Counselor Supervision" (Twohey and Volker, 1993). Responds to Ellis and Robbins (1993) by clarifying perspective on relationship between moral decision making and supervision. Takes issue with Bernstein's (1993) comments about superiority of instrumental…

This article asserts that personal counseling is a valuable growth experience for counselors in training. A decision tree is provided, along with guidelines for the supervisor's use in recommending personal counseling to enhance the training and development of students. (Author/TE)

Discusses and critically examines three issues that affect research in counselor education and supervision: mentoring practitioners, methodological diversity, and funding. Calls for counselor educators to improve research training counselors receive, particularly in area of treatment effectiveness. Urges counselor educators to provide mentoring to…

Discusses the ethical issues inherent in rehabilitation counseling, including emerging ethical standards in rehabilitation counselor supervision, supervisory relationship vulnerability and codes of ethics applicable to rehabilitation supervision, and ethical concerns that are common to supervision. (JPS)

Explores the ethical issues for counselors in a dual role of counseling and supervising the same individuals. The difficulties of this dual relationship are discussed, and a guide for distinguishing supervision from counseling is offered. (Author/TE)

Discusses how cultural and gender biases in definitions of mental and emotional health and illness create critical issues for counseling research. Suggests that future research in counselor education and supervision cannot afford to uncritically accept these definitions and challenges researchers to develop more inclusive definitions. (Author/NB)

This paper explores the complexities in transitioning from the role of a counselor to that of a counselor educator, integrating a review of the literature on counselor pedagogy with personal experience. The role of the counselor, the teacher, and the parallels and disjunctions between those roles as well as possible ways to bridge them are among…

Asserts that much of research currently conducted in counselor education and supervision is unreliable and invalid. Presents tabulation of research designs and errors in manuscripts submitted to "Counselor Education and Supervision." Notes that over 80% of submitted studies were descriptive designs and nearly one-half had errors that invalidated…

Discusses the need for a revitalization of a scientific agenda for clinical supervision. Reviews philosophy of science and scientific methods and attempts to disentangle common misconceptions about a scientific agenda as applied to supervision. Exhorts supervisors to be critical consumers of research and theory and to pursue programmatic and…

Sets forth a model of group supervision, drawing on a creative therapies approach which provides an effective way of delivering process issues, conceptualization issues, and personalization issues. The model makes particular use of techniques drawn from art therapy and from psychodrama, and should be applicable to therapists of many orientations.…