In response to the documented incidences of homophobia in practitioners, advocates a more radicalized approach to counselor training titled Queer Theory. This approach forces individuals to rethink binary categories of "heterosexual,""homosexual,""male," and "female," and to accommodate the view of sexual…

Reports the results of two studies comparing school professionals' attributions of blame to a child victim, a father/perpetrator, and a nonparticipating mother in hypothetical vignettes of father-daughter incest. Results indicate that all professional groups assigned some degree of blame to the child victim and nonparticipating mother and very…

This paper explores the attitudes and conceptions held by trainee and practising counsellors towards people with disabilities. Awareness of counsellors' own views of disability and impairment can complicate the counsellor-client relationship when the latter is seen primarily from a deficiency model perspective or self-defined model of disability,…

W. G. Perry (1970) formulated a description of stages of intellectual and ethical development. Perry's schema seems to have applicability in describing trainees as they approach working with families and gauging counselor trainees' level of progress. The first stage is "dualism" in which trainees rely primarily on the use of logic and the weight…

Gender role stereotypes are rigid beliefs in and applications of expected roles to almost all females and males. Female gender roles often include being expressive, communal, weak, emotional, caring, dependent, and working in traditional occupations. Educationally, women's appropriate roles serve to limit their future choices. Married women are…

Surveyed graduate counseling students regarding attitudes toward homosexuality. Results indicate counseling students feel ill-prepared to deal with homosexual clients, are unsure about the etiology of homosexuality, and that female students respond differently from male students regarding many aspects of homosexuality. (Author)

Examined relational consequences of supervisors' and supervisees' disagreements about supervisee's counseling sophistication, using Stoltenberg's developmental model of counselor supervision. Supervisors perceived themselves as varying their behavior with supervisees of different developmental levels, though supervisees did not see this.…

Argues that it is mandatory that counselors suspend any disbelief in their clients during the early stages of counseling because disbelieving interferes with counselor spontaneity and empathy. Offers suggestions for what can be done to develop appropriate levels of gullibility in counselors in training. (Author/ABB)

Responds to Miller's article on encouraging gullibility by recommending that a balance between suspicion and gullibility be attained in counseling situations. (Author/ABB)

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

Examines questionnaire responses from 580 vocational rehabilitation counseling professionals regarding perceived needs for training in the area of psychiatric rehabilitation. Rated opportunity for continuing education as the optimal vehicle for training. Translating psychiatric diagnoses into functional behavioral terminology was ranked foremost…

Surveyed 237 counselor trainees from across the country regarding changes in supervisee perceptions of supervisor behavior as counselors gain experience. Results were congruent with previous research suggesting supervisors do change their behavior to match the needs of supervisees; however, supervision differed across settings. (JAC)

Tested the attitudes of female rehabilitation counselor education students (N=40) toward a female and male simulated client. Results showed that when female, the client was perceived as more intelligent and attractive and was rated more positively on the evaluation dimension of a semantic differential instrument. (Author/LLL)

Examines attitudes of counselor education students in Wales and a sample of United States students. There were significant differences between the two groups at both the beginning and the end of the programs. (Author/CJ)

Counselor educators communicate a set of informal, convert attitudes, the silent curriculum. Rapid change alters one source of this silent curriculum, the teaching learning relationship. This article suggests possible changes in the counselor education process to encourage individualized instruction, Experimentation, and student involvement in…