Describes a study of the impact of a nurse training program for family planning that stresses the development of nurses' counseling skills. Found an association between improved family planning training for nurses and positive changes in family planning knowledge, attitudes, and behavior among women attending Egyptian Ministry of Health clinics.…

This article describes the implementation and expansion of Robert Carkhuff's Training Technology to maximize trainees' skill transfer to applied settings and to maximize their ability to integrate various theoretical orientations into their counseling repertoire. The article summarizes training outcomes and invites counselor educators to…

Examines the importance of the induction phase for graduates of Transforming School Counseling Initiative programs, offering a rationale for strengthening the involvement of counselor educators in this process, reviewing relevant literature, and discussing: current practices in practicum and internship, mentoring and supervision, the need to…

Describes Peer Assistance Leaders, a peer facilitator program designed and implemented at a small rural junior high school. Peer helpers had roles of helping with orientation, registration, coordination of theme works, adjustment, and students with academic difficulties. Concludes program was a success with grade point averages and classroom…

Examines growing trend of special issues training sessions for peer counselors. Describes number of training guidelines developed as result of secondary school's training program and formal evaluation. Suggested guidelines include training in listening and helping skills, extended practice of these skills, mutual decision-making, peer counselor…

Describes a graduate course for teaching therapists about the contributions that have been made to the understanding and treatment of substance abuse by family researchers, theorists, and clinicians. Delineates course purpose, student selection, instructional methods, and course content. (Author)

Discusses the status of training about sexual orientation in counselor education and the importance of including gender-related issues. Presents a brief review of research on lesbian/gay gender issues, and describes a course designed to prepare counselors-in-training. (JPS)

Reviews phases of Kellogg Foundation support for library-based adult career counseling programs as background to this special issue. The programs are (1) System of Interactive Guidance and Information (SIGI) at the University of California-Irvine, 1975-80; (2) Project LEARN (Lifelong Educational Assessment and Referral Network), 1980-86; and (3)…

Describes mentoring as a support mechanism for trainees undertaking new in-service professional qualifications for the Association of Graduate Careers Advisory Services (UK). Presents the selection procedure for mentors, the process of matching them with trainees, the regional network for induction training and support, and the documentation…

A camp's culture must be established in a way that maximizes the opportunities to fulfill the camp's highest priority goals and objectives. A camp director describes how his staff training emphasizes building relationships, a sense of community, and experiencing camp activities. Skill practice, safety management, policies, procedures, and…

Although special services providers are trained to address a range of behavioral problems, there has been little attention paid to non-traditional training sites which can prepare special service providers for working with seriously delinquent youth. Article considers the increasingly delinquent behaviors of children and describes an internship…

This article describes the Consortium for Social Work Training in Aging (CSWTA), a unique partnership among 3 schools of social work and 6 county departments of adult and aging services. Using an innovative collaborative training model that included structured rotations and curricular support, CSWTA contributed to increased student interest in…

The symposium International Perspectives on Career Development included a plenary session that addressed career counseling in a world of limited resources. Panelists representing diverse areas of the world shared their perspectives on career counseling in their countries and the specific problems they faced. They identified common concerns and…

School counseling professionals are recognizing the need to address family issues as an intervention strategy with children. Counselor educators can assist school counselor trainees in understanding the family systems' perspective by using the family autobiography as a course requirement. This article presents a description of the family…

Women frequently lack access to within-profession (and more frequently within-department) mentors to help them clarify and maneuver within the unwritten rules of their profession's culture (Cawyer, Simonds, & Davis, 2002). Such access is especially vital in academia. Women have access to graduate programs, yet the major obstacle they face is…