An analysis of clinical dialogue between client and counselor and between counselor-in-training and supervisor is used to demonstrate that effective counseling and supervision demands that Kolb's four modes of experience (concrete experience, reflective observation, abstract conceptualization, and active experimentation) must be available to the…

Defined verbal behavior categories for clients (the Client Verbal Behavior System, CL-VBS), and for counselors (the Counselor Verbal Behavior System, CO-VBS), to match the categories in the Carkhuff and Ivey training models, in order to study the acquisition of the skills and their impact on client responses and outcomes. (Author/JAC)

Marriage and family therapy training clinic clients rated their therapist's skill level on several therapist variables including "experience,""confidence,""concern," and how well the treatment seemed to fit their view of the problem. Suggestions for using these results in supervision of beginning therapists are given.…

Supervisors (N=80) heard tapes of a trainee describing how her client's depression lifted or worsened and attributing this change to her efforts (defensive style) or to the client (counterdefensive style). The counterdefensive trainee was judged to be more socially skilled, but the defensive trainee was rated as more self-confident. (BH)

Counselors are being challenged to prove their value. Counselors together with their supportive agencies (professional associations, state departments of education, and counselor training institutions) must align themselves to selected role identities and training experiences for survival. (Author)

If school counseling is to continue as an ongoing dynamic profession, counselor educators must address their attention to the improvement of practitioner competencies as well as toward counselor preparation. The purpose of this paper is to share one educational approach which can facilitate movement toward achievement of these desired needs.…

Several authors have suggested that the presence of recording equipment inhibits the performance of helping personnel. Videotaping is generally thought to be more discomforting than audiotaping. Findings of this study, using 39 Bureau of Employment interviews and coached clients, contraindicate previous research and speculation. (Author)

The results of the study suggest that the counselor is spending the major portion of his time in activities which are not directly stressed either in the overall counselor training programs or specifically in the practicum experience. (Author)

This article presents an instrument, the Counselor Evaluation Rating Scale, which can be used as an aid in the systematic evaluation of a student counselor in a supervised counseling experience. Development of the CERS and its reliability are discussed. (Author)

A major emphasis of counseling psychology programs should be on training counselors to bring about changes in the system since most of the problems brought to counselors are ones that the ill-fated system has perpetuated. The article calls for young counselors to become innovators, not protectors of the system. (Author)

The issues outlined are minimal renovations required in counselor education, but they are essential if black student counselors are going to find their professional education meaningful. Black counselors are needed to offset the victimization of blacks by unconcerned and improperly trained counselors. (Author)

Six males interviewed the same male confederate client. Thirty-seven students viewed video tapes of first 5 minutes of interview, rated that interviewer's "expertness," and listed cues of his expertness. Mean ratings of expertness were nearly the reverse of the order of the interviewers' training and/or experience. (Author)

Reviews empirical studies concerning role of social influences in counseling process as perceived by American Indians and types of problems Indians present in counseling. Reviews social learning, behavioral, and network interventions for training counselors in effective mental health service delivery. (Author/ABL)

Sees universal adoption of master's degree in rehabilitation counseling as hiring criterion requiring its validation in relation to job performance. Proposes large-scale validation study involving state-federal vocational rehabilitation agencies that would make use of extensive existing vocational rehabilitation database, and relate type and level…

Reports results of whether microtraining was more effective than reflective listening in teaching attending behavior skills to introductory counseling students. Found no significant differences between the two techniques; however, reflective listening was viewed as a much simpler procedure. (PC)