A workshop on the importance of building and maintaining healthy self-esteem is described in this document. It has been successfully presented to nontraditional college students, counselor educators, and other professionals in the counseling field, with slight modifications depending on the background of the participants. At the beginning of the…

A survey was conducted to identify requisite supervisor knowledge and skills and to determine what procedures should be used in establishing a national "approved supervisor" certification program. Subjects surveyed were members of the Association for Counselor Education and Supervision (ACES); all members were invited to participate and some 724…

This is a description of a hypnosis training seminar taught at the University of California at Los Angeles to people with training and experience in psychotherapy who are licensed--or to be licensed--mental health professionals. The course described stresses the students' active participation as hypnotists and encourages a rapid transition from…

The complex interpersonal process that makes up counseling includes dimensions of interviewing skill, assessing the present concerns of the client, understanding dynamics of behavior and change, and the employment of a repertoire of techniques and appropriate interventions. This complexity requires integration, either explicitly in a theoretical…

Article is based on a plenary address given to an international audience as part of the 2001 Going for Gold conference. Uses a metaphor to broadly address the issue of lifestyle for counselors and clients. (Contains 26 references.) (GCP)

This paper concerns microcounseling approaches which involve teaching the component behaviors of effective counseling or interviewing within a problem-solving framework. It notes that Egan, Ivey and Carkhuff, as proponents of this view, stress that later action stages of the problem-solving cycle should be based on an adequate understanding of the…

Psychologists, by the very nature of their work, are faced with practicing at the borders of their competence, for two reasons. First, they may encounter certain clients or situations for which they are only minimally prepared; and second, as human beings they are subject to the same destructive effects of untoward life events as their clients,…

This document presents an analysis of the identity of counseling psychology derived from the Greyston Conference in 1964 compared to current identity questions which were the focus of the Georgia Conference in 1987. The paper outlines what appears to be a major shift from counseling psychology based in schools, colleges, and career education…

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.…

Music therapy is the unique use of music in the accomplishment of therapeutic aims: the restoration, maintenance, and improvement of mental and physical health. A music therapist can help clients increase understanding of themselves and their environment through systematic involvement with music. The process of music therapy gives clients a…

Attendees at the 1998 Texas Counseling Association's annual convention were given a brief survey and short test on psychopharmacology. Analysis was performed to examine the effects of demographic and ideological variables. The model moderately explained the variance on the psychopharmacology test with only 2.5% of the adjusted variance explained…

This study attempted to determine how effective clergy are as counselors. Clergy (N=131) from a 7 county area in the Northeast were asked to provide information on their counseling practices, including presenting problems brought to counseling and the counseling techniques they used. A self-appraisal of their effectiveness was obtained. Contrary…

Several ideas are presented as a rationale for the existence of research teams in master's level counseling programs. Research teams provide master's level counseling students with a heightened sense of awareness, value of, and interest in the process of inquiry, development of meaningful research questions, and testing of hypotheses. Students are…

For a number of years, Division 17 of the American Psychological Association has delivered a strong message to all accredited sites as to the importance of attending to diversity in the training of Counseling Psychologists. Although many training sites have responded to this mandate, scholars and researchers have, in increasing numbers, added…

The growing number of career choice process instruments may have outstripped counselors' understanding of these increasingly sophisticated and complex measures. The differences among measures bearing similar titles is often confusing and has led some counselors to misapply or misinterpret them. The most important developments/advances in the…