The University of South Carolina (USC) Child Abuse and Neglect Interdisciplinary Training Project provides students with the opportunity to gain advanced knowledge and skills for work with maltreated children and families through didactic courses, practica, and community placements. The project involves interdisciplinary collaboration between…

An advanced graduate level course in family therapy, "Theories and Methods of Marriage and Family Therapy" is described in this document. It is intended to provide an overview of various perspectives, theories, and methods used in marriage and family counseling. Particular emphasis is given the delineation of the distinctions between and among not…

The merits of peer group supervision have been advocated widely, but the actual practice has been described infrequently. The structured peer group format is a model that provides an organizational structure and a systematic procedure for conducting peer groups. In application, the approach can be adapted to match the developmental levels of the…

This paper offers a model for role-based preschool psychological services and addresses training issues within the context of the model. A challenge exists to train for a wide range of roles and to train in the judgmental components necessary for appropriate implementation of these roles. To accomplish these ends, an ecological framework lays the…

Few studies have been conducted which pertain to the consultation training backgrounds of psychologists and many questions remain unanswered. One study (Gallessich and Watterson, 1984) attempted to identify the current patterns of predoctoral education and training in consultation. Another study was undertaken to determine the extent to which…

Verbal productivity and lack of self-disclosure about feelings by counselor trainees may indicate resistance in a supervision session. In order to investigate resistance as it relates to trainees' statements, 20 supervisors viewed and rated a 15-minute videotape of a simulated supervisory session, in which the trainee was instructed to exhibit…

Role playing and modeling are important components of counselor training. To examine gender and ordinal position effects on the role play practice of counselor trainees, 51 beginning students (35 females, 16 males) participated in role play dyads. Following classroom videotape skill training in reflection of feeling responses, subjects were…

In this paper, a graduate student from Taiwan completing a counselor education program at the University of Iowa, comments on his counselor training in the United States and explains how that training has prepared him to work within his own culture. Adjustments which must be made in transferring knowledge gained in the American counselor education…

This paper contends that school psychologists often are expected to reconcile, interpret, and evaluate the cognitive and behavioral functioning of children with neurologically related disorders. In this light, it is suggested that students in graduate programs in school psychology could benefit from specialized education and experience in applied…

This paper describes a computer program based on the premise that successful counseling can be viewed as an interpersonal influence process composed of three basic features: sequentiality, flexibility, and constraint. An introduction to the INTERACT program explains how the program analyzes counselor/client and client/counselor transitions or…

During 1973-74, ESEA Title III funds became available for the development of a "Model Comprehensive Needs-Based Guidance System and Modular Instructional Strategies" for the state of Georgia. The proposal called for a new conceptualization of guidance; one that derives its goals and objectives from the developmental needs of students.…

Current and projected manpower shortages within the field of mental health suggest a greater role for paraprofessionals. But, without careful evaluation and precise training, added manpower will not solve any of the problems facing psychology in overcoming the limits to the delivery of services. These two papers review several attempts to evaluate…

The purpose of this study was to estimate, empirically, the quality of published experimental research in the fields of counseling and counselor education and to determine whether there has been an improvement over time of that quality. The sample of 152 studies was randomly chosen from the experimental studies published from 1962 through 1973 in…

The particulars of the evolved curriculum and how the training has evolved around the change-agent concept are stressed in this presentation. The measure of success achieved in attempting to influence the staff and course of studies of the regular guidance department is also emphasized. The curriculum of this counselor training institute has, from…

Because of the increasing emphasis on the treatment and rehabilitative aspects of working with public offenders, it has become necessary to understand in more detail the workings of the correctional system and its personnel. This paper focuses on the correctional setting, the roles, functions and characteristics of effective counselors as…