This article offers additional support for Hansen's (2012) position that humanism and a renewed respect for human complexity are essential to counseling. In the article, the author also speaks to the critical importance of continuing to ground the profession in art and science. Implications for the future of humanism and counseling are presented.

A hallmark of any profession is the degree to which it has advanced, through research, that body of knowledge which constitutes the core learnings and skills of the discipline. Counselor educators must first ascertain where they have been and what empirical evidence has influenced and provided the foundations for professional actions. A review of…

Study of addictive behavior is charged with ideology. Preparation of professionals demands awareness of "hidden lenses" of ideology and characteristics such as dogmatism and rigidity, oversimplification, reductionism, and dualistic thinking. Emotional investment in ideology makes it difficult to introduce threatening "heretical" teachings or…

Presents a message from the president of Association for Counselor Education and Supervision on ways to improve counselor education. Encourages counselor educators to be more specific in attempts to produce qualified individuals for professorial ranks in counselor education and suggests that required internship in teaching, writing, and research…

Contends that counseling/therapy is more complicated than it may first appear. Urges counselors/therapists trained in limited areas to place their specific techniques within a general, comprehensive counseling framework. Stresses that failing to do so makes counselors/therapists limited in what treatment they can provide. (CM)

Rehabilitation counselor education has shifted its curriculum and focus to conform to changes in federal policy as a means of gaining federal training funds. Changes have jeopardized rehabilitation counseling's identity and status as independent profession. Rehabilitation counselor education must reassert the field's competence in the area of…

States that counselors need to become more involved in program evaluation. Presents rationale for including training in program evaluation in counselor education programs. Contends that only by conducting program evaluations will counselor educators and supervisors become major players in public policy, planning, and social reform. (Author/NB)

Describes the Council for Accreditation of Counseling and Related Educational Programs (CACREP). Makes recommendations to modify CACREP's standards and system of governance with the intention of increasing CACREP's influence and making it accountable to the constituents it serves. (Author/ABL)

Responds to previous article in which Thomas analyzes current status of counseling psychology from Freudian, drive-structure perspective. Discusses the accreditation process and suggests that way to work for rapprochement between counseling psychologists and counselor educators is to look for characteristics the two professions have in common and…

Presents overview of select components most often found within family training programs: the study of systems theory, examination of family of origin, use of live supervision, and emphasis on ethical issues specific to working with couples and families. Discusses variety of challenges facing training programs, including constructivism, feminist…

Counselor educators and students share an ethical accountability for the quality of service that these students will one day provide to their client populations. In this article, the author discusses how assessment can be understood as part of the contract educators make not only with their students, but also with the individuals they will…

Reports that textbooks and counseling approaches studied by prospective counselors largely omit information on biological foundations of human behavior, although biological factors often affect human behavior profoundly. Uses case study examples to show importance of biological factors. Recommends that counselor educators understand biological…

Responds to professional reactions to counselor gullibility. Sees a direct, linear relationship between gullibility and counseling effectiveness. (Author/ABB)

Contends that the development of consultation skills lags far behind the development of counseling skills in most counselor education programs. Examines some of the reasons why consultation training is not emphasized and suggests some remedies. A set of competencies of the consultant is appended. (Author/NB)

This paper asserts that the computer has become an integral part of communication within the world culture and that it has tremendous utility for the counseling profession. Counselor educators are encouraged to incorporate computer competence into their curriculum. This report is divided into four parts. First, there is a brief discussion of the…