Describes innovative recruitment and selection strategies for counselor preparation programs, discussing how the Transforming School Counseling Initiative (TSCI) is addressing the need for minority school counselors at six universities, examining TSCI recruitment and selection practices, and noting the need to build programs based on a vision for…

Describes a two-semester beginning graduate practicum in counseling that integrates the development of external knowledge and skills with the development of the personal internal beliefs and attitudes of the counselor who is being trained. Claims this process ensures training counselors who are able to communicate skills in a personal and…

Reviews the rationale for the use of simulation and game exercises as part of counselor education programs. Counselor competencies in the areas of knowledge, skills, and self-awareness are discussed; and the use of experience-based learning activities is explained, including the debriefing stage. (Contains three references.) (LRW)

This article describes a training design to help counselor trainees perceive the positive and negative messages in a client's internal dialog. Twenty graduate counselors-in-training produced 2 10-minute interviews with simultaneous feedback from an anticounselor (gives explicit negative messages) and a procounselor (gives explicit positive…

Describes challenges faced by a women's center when their relatively homogenous, middle class clientele shifted to one of diverse inner-city women. Strategies for meeting these challenges included encouraging staff members to examine their personal values and coping skills, reassessment of services and service delivery, and a commitment to…

Examines a way in which the computer can be used to offer live supervision in the training of basic counseling skills. Explains how computer-assisted live supervisory feedback was integrated into a basic counseling skills training class at a medium-sized public southeastern university. Discusses setting up the computer, course design, and student…

School counselors often lack training in family systems theory, because training programs tend to use individual counseling models. The Collaborative Drawing Technique (CDT) introduces counselors-in-training to family systems concepts. A case illustration is presented to explain shifts in trainees' case conceptualizations with use of the CDT model…

Two universities that are working to prepare school counselors have changed their recruitment and selection procedures to attract increased numbers of candidates who can be optimally trained to fulfill the requirements. Describes criteria and procedures used to select graduate students who have the greatest promise of becoming leaders, advocates,…

Provides a rationale for the use of cognitive developmental theory as a framework for counselor education, discusses the implications for preparation programs, and suggests evaluation and research possibilities in this area. Discusses theory's theoretical background, reviews components of successful programs, and presents specific strategies. (EMK)

Examines models of integrative delivery services for children and families and the role of the school counselor in the provision of such services. Discusses the importance of structuring the delivery approach and the role of school counseling professional organizations and counseling programs as valuable sources of support. (Contains 17…

The application of Gestalt dreamwork was explored with counselor education students and professors at two Taiwan universities. The literature indicates Asians are reluctant to disclose personal matters or to display emotions. Contrary to expectations, the Taiwanese participants readily enacted roles, were personally open, and expressed intense…

Home-based counseling is often the most effective intervention for families that have a child at risk for removal from the home. Whereas the process of home-based counseling has received a fair amount of attention in the literature, there has been little attention paid to the supervision of the counselors who provide the services. This article…

Although pervasive throughout counseling psychology and other training programs that incorporate experiential activities, reflective journals have sparse, fragmented and disparate theoretical bases to support their use. Coming from the fields of counseling and professional education, the authors use counselor education as a template to explore the…

Despite three decades of affirmative action efforts, counseling programs continue to struggle with the challenge of recruiting and retaining African American women faculty. African American women in general, and African American female professors in particular, have emerged from what Hudson-Weems (1989) terms as a tripartite form of oppression, of…

Despite an early shared history with school counseling, counseling psychology has, over time, distanced itself from the schools. Current circumstances with regard to public education and questions about the relevance of counseling psychology's graduate training programs within schools and colleges of education have resurrected consideration of a…