New and experienced school counselors will find this handbook to be a valuable resource that addresses most of the challenging situations they confront everyday. "Top 10 Topics" will also interest counselor educators who train graduate students to do group-work. This book is filled with reproducible activities, in-depth discussion questions,…

This reply to the ARCA Research Committee's criticisms first offers a brief review of the contents of Working Paper No. 7 as well as a history of the controversy surrounding the paper. (Author)

This study investigated whether personality needs discriminate between counselor trainees who prefer the administrator specialty and those who prefer the practitioner functional specialty. The results suggest that the Personality Research Form (PRF) may have value as a tool in the selection of counselors. (Author)

Counselor trainees were assigned to two groups (a) the experimental group, training in nondefensive communication, and (b) the control group, no training period. Results showed that the experimental subjects demonstrated a significant reduction in defensive behavior. Significant differences were found for the pre- and postchange scores between the…

A survey to determine what admission procedures were being used in counselor education programs across the country revealed that a wide variety of procedures were being used to select students for master's degree and doctoral degree programs in counselor education. The criteria most commonly mentioned for selecting students were scholastic…

A systems approach model to counselor education is justified and elaborated by Steven Zifferblatt. Responses to his remarks are made by T. Antoinette Ryan, Donald Blocker and Patricia Wolleat, Lawrence Brammer, Ray Hosford and Norman Stewart. A rejoinder by the original author also follows. (CJ)

This article reviews the literature pertinent to prepracticum laboratory experiences in counselor education and describes the elements and the evaluation of one such program. (Author)

The purpose of this article is to set down an example of the involvement of several departments of a university in the training of counselors. (Author)

Results of this study indicated that counselors consistently rated their training higher than did the superintendents. The biggest difference in ratings between counselors and superintendents was on personal social counseling. Counselors apparently feel that personal social counseling is an area of their preparation program where they received…

The author highlights some of the implications of Kemp's points for counselors and clients. He also raises additional questions about the American experience, writing from a perspective as a counselor-educator sympathetic to existential views. (Author/BY)

The Association for Counselor Education and Supervision (ACES) believes it is necessary that counselor educators, supervisors, and counselors establish specific, substantive policies, procedures, and activities designed to improve counseling services for non-Whites. The development of counselor training programs encompassing needs and aspirations…

Finding effective ways to teach students to use and apply technology in their coursework and field placements can be a challenge for counselor educators. The use of online assignments in counselor education courses has been one way to teach and model the use of such technology for counselors in training. (Contains 14 references.) (GCP)

Discusses various approaches to multicultural counseling training currently being used in counselor education programs. Outlines a developmental framework that describes the types of training thought to be available to counseling students at this time. (Author)