This digest focuses on issues of supervisory evaluation and feedback. It suggests that there exist some fairly basic premises from educational psychology, educational evaluation, and counselor supervision literature that can improve supervision evaluation practices, and thus reduce the ambiguity and uncertainty about evaluation in supervision.…

This project studied the counselor training of reflection of feelings. The independent variables were method of instruction; order of assessment stimuli presentation; and assessment stimuli. There were four methods of instruction: model plus expert performance feedback, model plus self-generated cued performance feedback, modeling only, and…

Describes a process of feedback in which a supervisor challenges a trainee's point of view regarding some aspect of the trainee by pointing out strengths which that individual may not be aware of. It is suggested that the process should help counselor trainees identify and use their strengths more fully. (RJM)

For a counseling psychology training program to be effective, it must keep up with current trends and developments in the field. To evaluate the Counseling Psychology Training Program (CPTP) at the University of Texas at Austin, 74 doctoral level graduates of the program within the decade of 1973-1982 (51 males, 23 females) completed a…

This paper explores the use of reflecting teams as a tool for assisting students who are engaged in internship placements in community counseling settings. These placements are used to help students develop the skills of counseling and the professional identity of a counselor. Counselor educators are involved in the role of supportive…