From 1999 to 2005, the Minneapolis-based Center for Victims of Torture (CVT) served Liberian and Sierra Leonean survivors of torture and war living in the refugee camps of Guinea. A psychosocial program was developed with 3 main goals: (1) to provide mental health care; (2) to train local refugee counselors; and (3) to raise community awareness…

Understanding how students learn is a common goal for most educators; however pedagogical research in rehabilitation counselor education is limited. This study employed action research to investigate how six students learned beginning counseling skills in a rehabilitation counseling practicum class. Approximately 150 data points were analyzed by…

Group counseling is a rapidly changing field. This collection of 31 digests examines various aspects of group process and group counseling. The digests are arranged under different subject headings. In section 1, the nature of group work is examined, along with the evolution of group work training since 1990. The second section looks at…

Two major barriers which stand in the way of the delivery of psychological services to children are inadequate therapy outcome research, and the unavailability of people qualified to teach others to use developed treatments. The long distance training model was developed to avoid such problems. It includes three major components: (1) the use of…

These five symposium papers address the gap between behavioral and psychoanalytic theories. "Teaching the Integration of Different Models to Therapists-in-Training," by Richard P. Halgin, suggests that students should concentrate on a broad-based education, using the best of several approaches to fit individual client needs, rather than…

This report summarizes findings of a World Health Organization meeting on the topic of training drug treatment center personnel about Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS). The first section discusses issues surrounding AIDS and drug abusers. Prevalence rates for intravenous drug abusers in various European countries are discussed. Prevention…

Three counseling situations in which a counseling student sought participatory help from his field instructor are described. In the first case study the counseling student had been working with a marginal family with severe marital and child management problems. Approaches discussed in supervisory conferences had not achieved the desired result…

Most research on counselor training programs has focused on the trainee's responsive skills, while little research emphasis has been placed on the trainee's initiative dimensions that pave the way for more systematic action programs to help clients change their behavior. To examine various approaches to teaching one of the initiative skills, i.e.,…

Twenty-two junior, senior, and graduate students from an introductory counseling class for nonmajors were introduced to the verbal psychotherapies, and randomly divided into treatment and control groups. The groups were treated identically and received the usual instructional program except for the treatment group receiving 30 minutes of…

This paper offers a rationale and introduction to three innovative techniques which provide initial counseling experiences to trainees in the helping professions. The development of a cooperative program with the drama department to train and utilize drama students as coached clients is described as the first technique. The second technique is…

Students in a 12-week facilitative skills development course completed a measure of moral development before and after training and were rated for empathic understanding of client statements on an analog videotape and a counseling audiotape. Empathy ratings on the videotape and audiotape correlated significantly with moral development scores,…

Training programs that incorporated overt, covert, and combined over-covert practice modes were compared for their effects on developing counseling skills and confidence among undergraduate students. The combined practice group was superior to the control group on attending behaviors and empathy ratings. The overt practice group was superior to…

The University of Maine School of Law's cooperative program with a local legal clinic to provide law students with training in and experience with counseling techniques in a field experience program, to help clients solve complex problems, is described and discussed. (MSE)

This document presents knowledge, skills, and attitudes that are needed for achieving and practicing the competencies listed in Addiction Counseling Competencies, as written by the National Curriculum Committee of the Addiction Technology Transfer Center Program. The document is intended to provide guidance for the professional treatment of…

This paper discusses how emotional reactions to the job search, especially in the new economy, can adversely influence an individual's effectiveness. It suggests that career counselors and coaches can assist clients with some of the emotional aspects of the job search without referring these people to other mental health professionals. There are…