Surveyed 235 rehabilitation educators to identify their perceptions of actual and preferred instructional emphasis in bachelor's, master's, doctoral, and continuing education programs. Results suggested a preference for greatest emphasis at the master's level, with a preference for strong research rather than clinical practice focus in doctoral…

With character education as one of the fastest growing reform movements in education today, counselor educators and counseling students need to be informed and cognizant of various character education programs. Currently, more than 30 states mandate some aspect of character education and school counselors are frequently responsible for introducing…

Although demand for more counselor educators doesn't appear strong over the next decade, there seems to be a steady need for replacements in the areas of schools, higher education, rehabilitation, and employment. The larger need over the decade seems to be for counselor educators with special skills in these areas: Inservice Training, Career…

This short article describes innovations in the counseling practicum at Ball State University. Such innovations include the setting up of a laboratory (wherein students spend at least four hours per week engaging in activities such as tape critiquing, encounter, and discussion), supervision of prepracticum by practicum students, and the use of a…

Although empathic understanding is widely taught, there is very little commonality among trainers in terms of what they teach their students to be empathic to. In this article the author presents a general conceptual set that may be applied to any statement a person makes. (Author)

A two-media program of instruction was developed for teaching the basic components of emphatic skill. Treatment subjects demonstrated significantly higher performance on the Michigan State Affective Sensitivity Scale than control subjects. (Author)

This article describes an instrument, Recorded Counselee Narratives, used to collect counselor responses over the telephone and an instrument, Counselor Preference Survey, developed to evaluate such responses. Possible uses of the instruments in evaluation of applicants for graduate counselor education programs, lay counselors, and telephone…

An investigation was made to determine the interrater reliability and validity of peer evaluations in a practicum setting. The interrater reliability on the Rating Scale of Counselor Effectiveness was high. Differences in absolute scores between student and supervisor were significant with students consistently rating their peers higher. (Author)

This study investigated the effects of two supervisory roles when used within the small group practicum seminar, on counselor trainees' ability to emit understanding, affective, and exploratory responses in their final counseling interviews. Significant differences were observed only in the ability of the trainees to emit understanding responses.…

Attempts are being made to gear courses to meet needs of those studying to counsel in elementary schools. Need to improve programs is recognized. (Author/EK)

The study surveyed a sample of counselors and counselor trainers to determine the opinions of both regarding the content of a curriculum for community college counselors. (Author)

Elementary school counselors, pressured by teachers and administrators, and undertrained, are focusing on remedial or crisis counseling instead of the developmental guidance geared to changing classroom environments. Counselor education needs to provide knowledge of children, and classroom techniques and how to integrate this knowledge with the…

Describes University of Washington TTT Project to develop certification standards and training procedures. (RT)

Since the results of this study have been extracted from data supplied by a contemporary group of state directors and state supervisors of guidance services, and since roles change with time, this role study cannot be construed to be final or complete. (Author)