Results of a national survey of counseling psychologists indicated they spend the majority of their professional time providing individual psychotherapy; are eclectic in theoretical orientation; are increasingly identified with the work setting of private practice; and are satisfied with their graduate and internship training. (Author/BL)

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

Highlights role of the therapist in family therapy impasses involving interactions of the client-family and the therapist. Asserts that the essence of the therapist's role in impasses is ignorance and fear and recommends that family therapy teachers help therapists develop wisdom and courage. (Author/NB)

The developmental needs of law students and the implications of these needs for counselors and for counselor education and legal education are discussed. (Author)

Discusses how close we are, in 1984, to an Orwellian world, and the role of counselor educators in combating an Orwellian philosophy. Suggests that counselors must assist society in reaching higher goals of personal, intellectual, and social development, and discusses strategies for improving counselor education. (JAC)

Little attention has been given to how school counselor education and professional training establishes competencies for which the duties constituting the practice of school counseling are uniquely derived. Furthermore, there is a dearth of information in the literature regarding how school counselor training, the national standards for school…

This issue presents the basic theory underlying the dimensions of counseling, illustrates each of the dimensions, and shows their training implications. The issue features articles that illustrate organizational intervention, associational group intervention, and primary group intervention. (Author/LA)

This short article describes the specific behaviors expected of interns in counseling psychology at the University of Minnesota. The behaviors were divided into six areas: relationship counseling, behavior modification, group work, organizational intervention, office procedures, and information and research. Each area required six levels of…

Article discusses the training and practices of counselors presently involved with adult basic education programs. Examples given convey the inadequate provisions for counseling adults that now exist within most of the agencies in this area. (Author/GB)

This discussion of school counseling advocates the need for a reexamination of the political role of the counselor in the schools, the preparation of a more realistic curriculum for counselor education and the development of guidelines by which counseling positions in each school can be evaluated. (JC)

The basic premise of this article is that too many counselor educators lack experiential background and view the public school counselor's role in unrealistic terms. Suggestions are made for bridging this gap between training in the colleges and the demands of the job in counseling services in the schools. (JC)

A program designed to prepare students for their role as counselors for black students is outlined. It has much potential for promoting the personal and professional growth of counselors - in - training. (Author/BY)

The fact that counselor training has not prepared counselors to develop the skills and understandings needed for new undertakings provides a problem. The authors see this problem as an opportunity for a renaissance in counselor education. (Author/BY)

Counselors will have to organize to train themselves beyond the very institutions which spawned them, and they need an experiential organization to do it. (Author)