Within the field of systemic family therapy, the collaborative team is emerging as a powerful training approach as well as a valuable therapeutic tool. This article presents the collaborative team as a method of counselor supervision and training. Issues around the developing team process and potential pitfalls are elaborated. (Author/BL)

Provides an historical view of guidance and counseling services in Taiwan and suggests the need to promote counselor training from the undergraduate to the graduate level. (JOW)

Professional development does not have to mean large investments of time and money. This article explores the ins and outs of distance learning for school counselors. (GCP)

Presents highlights of an interview with Robert Callis, counselor educator and administrator of counseling education programs, concerning his personal and professional life and his career of developing people and building programs. (Author/ABL)

Discusses ethical issues of dual relationships and grading in teaching group skills building courses. Offers recommendations for avoiding unethical practice. Concludes personal growth experience can be most beneficial but that this may not necessarily be accomplished in situations in which participants are evaluated for a grade, a recommendation,…

Describes special program on live supervision in family therapy given at 1988 annual American Association for Counseling and Development (AACD) Conference that featured experts Barbara Okun and Fred Piercy discussing "cotherapy" and "one-way mirror" live supervision approaches. Provides edited transcript of their program.…

Contends that isolated training programs, role confusion, and adherence to differing philosophies of the etiology and treatment of alcohol and other drug problems contribute to different philosophies of treatment and disparate priorities. Notes that any attempt to reform health care system must include attending to quality of training and…

Analyzes current status of counseling psychology from perspective of Freudian, drive-structure theory. Argues that counseling psychology has committed classical response to oedipal conflict in its treatment of counselor education by identifying with aggressor (psychiatry and clinical psychology). Recommends more unified relationship between…

Notes that training of employment counselors in Canada includes tripartite approach to employment counseling and consists of direct delivery of counseling, consultation, and coordination. Contends that recent attention has been focused on training of group employment counselors and development of group workshops to assist counselors in delivery of…

A rejoinder to criticism of earlier articles on lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) issues in regard to affirmative counselor training. Discusses the role mentoring has played in the authors' professional development. Offers four suggestions for including the study of bisexuality in LGB research. (MKA)

The development of the Association for Specialists in Group Work's (ASGW) four-category system for classifying types of group work is described. Strengths and limitations of the Waldo and Bauman proposed Goals and Process (GAP) matrix for group work categorization are identified and discussed in relation to the present ASGW system. (Author/MKA)

Presents a reaction to major contribution articles from this issue of "The Counseling Psychologist" (2000, [this issue]). Maintains that the articles provide an excellent introduction for counselors to the field of prevention. Discusses problems concerning the definitions of prevention and the overwhelming need for primary prevention and…

From the standpoint of a journal editor and researcher, this commentary critically reflects on some of the primary notions addressed in the 4 featured articles of the special section, discussing areas of agreement and divergence. As a way of further exploring these ethical and professional concerns, the contentious issue of using school children…

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…

Provides a full description of group enactment procedures and their use in each of Kelly's proposed six phases of group development. Emphasizes the appropriateness of these methods for multicultural training of counselors. (Author/ABB)