Responds to Miller's article on encouraging gullibility by making a distinction between gullibility and being accepting of the client's perspective. (Author/ABB)

Examines questionnaire responses from 580 vocational rehabilitation counseling professionals regarding perceived needs for training in the area of psychiatric rehabilitation. Rated opportunity for continuing education as the optimal vehicle for training. Translating psychiatric diagnoses into functional behavioral terminology was ranked foremost…

Surveyed 237 counselor trainees from across the country regarding changes in supervisee perceptions of supervisor behavior as counselors gain experience. Results were congruent with previous research suggesting supervisors do change their behavior to match the needs of supervisees; however, supervision differed across settings. (JAC)

Tested the attitudes of female rehabilitation counselor education students (N=40) toward a female and male simulated client. Results showed that when female, the client was perceived as more intelligent and attractive and was rated more positively on the evaluation dimension of a semantic differential instrument. (Author/LLL)

Examines attitudes of counselor education students in Wales and a sample of United States students. There were significant differences between the two groups at both the beginning and the end of the programs. (Author/CJ)

Counselor educators communicate a set of informal, convert attitudes, the silent curriculum. Rapid change alters one source of this silent curriculum, the teaching learning relationship. This article suggests possible changes in the counselor education process to encourage individualized instruction, Experimentation, and student involvement in…

Compared the diagnostic and descriptive judgments by intake counselors about clients. Results showed that counselors made differing judgments about clients. Significant differences were found in some judgments when analyzed by sex of the counselors. (Author)

To estimate the overall effectiveness of counselor training, tested student counselors to explore "response-shift bias." Results from three groups of trainees spanning three years revealed the presence of a response-shift bias, confirmed the effectiveness of the training program, and demonstrated that students continually analyzed their…

This article outlines the contributions of multicultural counseling to 3 areas of counselor competence with lesbian, gay male, and bisexual male and female (LGB) clients: conceptualization of competence, counselor education, and assessment of counselor competence. The authors describe the foundations of multicultural counseling and extend the…

Examined school counselors' perceived levels of need for training in multicultural counseling. Ratings by 719 practicing school counselors indicated that additional training was most needed to promote students' academic achievement and to enhance counselors' cross-cultural communication and racism awareness. (Author/NB)

Contains four personal accounts of counselors' dealing with the death of a child: (1) "Lessons for Living from a Dying Child" (Garry Landreth); (2) "The Long Afternoon" (Malcolm Linville); (3) "The Birth of Empathy" (Alan Steed); and (4) "Death Vigil for Heather: When Counseling and Grieving Became Inseparable" (Stephen Weinrach). (NB)

Outlines the concept of counseling and the way it relates to human immunodeficiency virus and acquired immune deficiency syndrome. Focuses on training in counseling skills and in attitude awareness, using examples relating to human sexuality and death. Outlines principles for designing appropriate educational materials. (JOW)

Surveyed practicing school counselors (n=895) in Oregon to identify their opinions of educational priorities for graduate counseling training programs. Findings revealed that counseling theories, skills dealing with personal problems, development of counseling and guidance programs, consultation with teachers about individual students, and…

Explored mental health counselors' and counselor educators' perceptions of the training mental health counselors receive. Qualitative interviews were conducted with 12 mental health counselors or counselor educators. Key issues that emerged from interviews concerned licensure movement, what distinguishes mental health counseling, variability of…

Investigates counselors' attitudes toward sex offenders and the relationship of these attitudes to counselors' experience, training, and personal characteristics. Results indicate that counselors tend to have positive attitudes toward sex offenders and that experience, preparation from training, and victim status are related to these positive…