No particular psychotherapy technique or professional training has been found to be superior to others. Rather it is where theory and technique meet and come alive, in the personality of the therapist, that a definitive factor in effective psychotherapy appears. One of the personality variables in the therapist, not explored in the psychotherapy…

To determine what percentage of master's level graduate programs in counselor education recommend or require the purchase of malpractice insurance for their students, a 20 percent random sample of 287 master's level counselor education programs, listed in "Graduate Study in Psychology, 1982-83," were surveyed. The return rate was 80 percent (N=46…

Describes a program designed to train advanced family therapists in the conceptual and technical skills of family therapy supervision. Elaborates upon the content, overall organization, and contextual influences in the complex enterprise of training family therapy supervisors in a program that emphasizes the live observation of the…

Eighteen clinical supervisors participated in focus groups or an individual interview designed to investigate their personal experiences with value conflicts in supervision. Participants described the types of value conflicts they had experiences and their personal impact, effective and ineffective approaches for addressing these issues, resources…

This paper discusses Working Ahead: The National Workforce and Career Development Curriculum, a program developed by the John J. Heldrich Center for Workforce Development at New Jerseys Rutgers University. The program seeks to provide practical help and skills development to those who currently are, or want to be, front-line workforce career…

Millions of people were exterminated by the Nazi government during World War II because of genetic makeup, cultural heritage, religion, or physical disability. Rationalized by the Nazi's leadership as a method to achieve a "pure" and "perfect" race, the uncovering of the Holocaust to those outside German-occupied areas came as…

Traces the history of psychological therapies, including behavior therapy and humanistic therapies that challenged the initially dominant psychoanalytic model. Examines the development of the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy and the British Confederation of Psychotherapists, as well as other developments, such as psychotherapeutic studies…

It may be suggested that one's reflection on psychology's past and present state is an important part of finding one's identity within psychology. The facilitation of each individual student's quest for identity within psychology may be taken as a fundamental goal of the theories and history of a psychology course. This quest may be stifled if…

This paper presents the subject knowledge base and field experience practice of the only post-secondary program to train employment counselors in Canada at Fleming College (Ontario). It lists the range of studies pursued in the program in the fields of psychology, the humanities, business and the economy, and field practice. The first section…

The Integrated Developmental Model (IDM) of supervision builds upon previous models of counselor and psychotherapist development. The IDM incorporates aspects of both a mechanistic view, using the machine as metaphor, and an organismic view, using the organism as metaphor, of development in describing trainee development through three levels and…

Hypnosis is an increasingly popular clinical intervention. The number of training courses in hypnosis is growing each year. Research on hypnosis training appears to show that limited exposure to training, as is typical in the common 3 to 5 day format of mass training, produces limited results. Only when training is extended over time do the…

Although supervisors report important commonalities among beginning and more advanced psychotherapy trainees, individual differences in supervisees' background, personality, and ability are influential factors affecting the nature of the supervision process. For students who are just beginning to do psychotherapy, the overriding task is to manage…

An argument is made that all counseling should be aimed at eventually transforming helpees into helpers. The method of achieving this aim is to develop the client's skills of behavior change. The manner of encouraging these "counselor skills" involves the achievement of self-acceptance through two possible approaches: Magic and self-control.…

This paper attempts to provide initial perspectives on guidelines for the preparation of counselors in dealing with client problems as they relate to death. Four elements of a training program are presented: (1) sensitizing counselors and prospective counselors to the topic of death and its potential importance; (2) helping those same people…

This paper proposes a model of microcounseling training for increasing the ability of the reading instructor to be a facilitative interviewer when working with students. The microcounseling training model is based on five essential propositions: that it is possible to lessen the complexity of the counseling or interviewing process through focusing…