Discusses multicultural counselor training and outlines strategies for infusing counseling courses with multicultural content. Also describes how a counseling theories course was transformed to infuse multicultural perspectives. (Author)

This article describes the implementation and expansion of Robert Carkhuff's Training Technology to maximize trainees' skill transfer to applied settings and to maximize their ability to integrate various theoretical orientations into their counseling repertoire. The article summarizes training outcomes and invites counselor educators to…

The Counselor Activity Self-Efficacy Scales were developed to assess self-efficacy for performing helping skills, managing the counseling process, and handling challenging counseling situations. Factor-derived scale scores produced adequate internal consistency and short-term test-retest reliability estimates. Implications for future research and…

Provides review of self-monitoring theory and research for counselors and supervisors, discussing its implications for counseling relationships. Reviews research on characteristics of successful counselors. Suggests implications of self-monitoring for counseling supervision. (NB)

Argues for use of eclectic career counseling model that embraces both personality and career development theories. Notes that model requires counselor to be able to move back and forth between active and directive role of career counselor and facilitative and exploratory role of personal counselor. Presents case to demonstrate model's application…

Contends that clients and employment counselors need to feel that they matter, that they are significant to people around them. Reviews four dimensions regarding the perception of mattering: attention, importance, dependence, and ego-extension. Addresses the nature of mattering with respect to client service and counselor training. (Author/NB)

Presents information on counseling roles and discrepancies in role implementation based on cited models. Results of study reveal that school counselors continue to meet student needs through individual counseling in the traditional manner. Argues that counselor educators should begin to include brief counseling models, more definitively teach…

In order to assist trainees in preparing for brief family therapy interventions, the following domains are discussed: knowledge of brief treatment research, clear decision-rules for problem assessment and task intervention, skill-building in service delivery, and practice in adapting to idiosyncratic responses from the client family system. (JPS)

A social cognitive model of counselor training is presented using the metaphor of a drama to describe the emerging efficacy of the counselor in working with clients. After developing the story, attention is given to contexts and barriers to success. Seven research propositions are provided for supervisors. (Author/EMK)

Examines whether prepracticum trainees' varying perceptions of the success of a role play or videotape of a counseling session alters the potency of the role play or videotape in increasing counseling self-efficacy. Study indicates that trainees' perceptions of their counseling performance success may alter dramatically the potency of role play as…

Past research indicates sexual minority training provided to graduate students of counselling psychology is minimal and inadequate (Bahr, Brish, & Croteau, 2000; Morrison & L'Heureux, 2001; Murphy, 1991). Graduates feel unprepared to work competently with sexual-minority individuals, yet Canadian and American Associations require their…

When elementary school counselors have a solid developmental understanding of children, play therapy might be one counseling intervention that they use with their students. Landreth (2002) has promoted the use of play therapy in schools by explaining that its objective is to help children get ready to profit from what teachers have to offer. Play…

A pilot survey of 36 undergraduate (n = 10) and graduate (n = 26) students employed as counselors was used to explore students' attitudes toward empirically supported treatment (EST) manuals for chemical abuse and dependence. There were no significant differences in attitudes toward ESTs between undergraduates and graduates; however,…

Despite the reduction of overt heterosexist biases in the psychological literature, questions exist about the content and methodology of articles on lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) issues in the counseling literature. This study provides a content and methodological analysis of 119 LGB-related articles that were published in eight major…

Multiracial individuals are a unique and rising population adding to diversity on college campuses. With a number of potential issues affecting multiracial individuals on a college campus, it is important for counseling center staff to become more involved with and knowledgeable on approaches to assist this increasing population. This article…