Investigates lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) doctoral students' mentoring relationships with faculty in counseling psychology. Data from interviews with 14 LGB participants were analyzed. Results show two contextual-specific LGB themes that helped shape three themes regarding LGB students' experience of mentoring relationships. Presents seven…

Discusses six forces that have affected the content and process of counseling psychology training and will continue to do so: market forces; practitioner-educator dialogues; expectations and directives from within the profession; social and political forces; technological innovations; and the cultural context of counseling psychology. Briefly…

Presents a response to the six articles on training in counseling psychology in this issue of "The Counseling Psychologist" (2000). Emphasizes the importance of good teaching and connecting education with research and practice, and identifies guidelines for curricular change. (Contains 17 references.) (GCP)

Presents a response to the issues raised by Werth and Holdwick, and Westefeld et al. (2000, [this issue]). Focuses on augmenting the implications of these two articles for training in counseling psychology. Draws on the author's experience as an educator in suicide intervention, as well as his collaborative research on the development and…

Responds to the Forrest et al article on counselor trainee impairment. Extends the discussion in areas of: the effect of public interest on mental health professionals' misconduct; legal liability; the American Psychological Association's lack of involvement in trainee impairment issues; therapy for impaired trainees; the role of graduate students…

This article discusses the design and implementation of a grassroots culturally and linguistically sensitive program designed to promote the pursuit of higher education among Latino youth. Latinos en Camino al Exito Universitario is an example of a culturally responsive program delivered out of a university counseling center as part of the…

The question raised in this paper is whether the counseling descriptor, chosen in 1952, has been, in fact too delimiting for the purposes and goals of the profession stated in 1952 and particularly as alternative methodologies have developed in the 25 years since then. (Author)

We can learn about the identity of counseling psychologists by examining graduate programs that train them. This article reports the results of the 1976 study by the Council of Counseling Psychology Programs. It looks at program identification and characteristics, faculty and student characteristics, applications and financial aid, and job…

Provides a comprehensive view of the predoctoral internship for counseling psychologists. Delineates relevant issues in intern training. Attempts to stimulate the field of counseling psychology to examine critically the effectiveness of internship training programs. (Author/ABB)

Responds to Holloway and Roehlke's aritcle on training counseling psychologists. Comments on the locus of control for education and training decisions, and the scientist-practitioner model. Urges counselor educators to take more initiative in establishing education and training policy. (ABB)

Reviews the convergences and divergences between counseling and clinical psychology in terms of history, roles/functions, training conferences and experiences, work settings, and the future. Concludes that both specialties are converging in a number of ways, and discusses implications. (JAC)

Claims Claiborn and Lichtenberg in "Interactional Counseling" (1989) have achieved their goal of providing integration and coherence to the theory, practice, and research of the previously nonintegrated counseling domain with distinction. Recommends a new training paradigm is needed to achieve the goal of self-modification of counselors'…

Presents model for organizing and evaluating cross-cultural content throughout each phase of clinical and research training during doctoral study in scientist-practitioner programs. Includes overview of separate course, area of concentration, interdisciplinary, and integration models for promotion of cultural understanding in psychology. Makes…

Surveyed training directors of American Psychological Association approved counseling psychology programs and internship sites to determine extent of training in psychological assessment procedures. Found that clinical interview was most widely used procedure, vocational assessment was changing, different procedures were emphasized in academic and…

Examines social-cognitive career theory to generate recommendations for creating research-training environments that are affirming of lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) issues. Offers suggestions to influence aspects of the research-training environment: distal and proximal environmental influences, individual variables, students' research…