Clinical psychology interns and counseling psychology interns rated the emphasis on various roles and functions at internships and university training programs. Found a relationship between specialty and degree of emphasis on roles. Suggests clinicians are better trained for some roles, such as diagnosing learning disabilities and personality…

The counselor educator's role encompasses such descriptions as stimulator, facilitator, and teacher. The community role includes committee member, builder, friend, and encourager. The provision of a growing relationship with students, leaders, and workers is important in the counselor educator's responsibility in career education. Literature on…

Emphasizes the biological dimension of human behavior and demonstrates the need for counselors to have a knowledge of biological mechanisms of human behavior. Explains how certain biological structures and disorders are related to specific behavioral problems, and presents implications for the counseling profession. (Author/RC)

Describes using undergraduates as student advisers to free faculty from routine counseling tasks in undergraduate engineering programs at Purdue. Describes how advisers are selected and trained. (Author/DS)

Understanding the audiences, roles, skills, and responsibilities are essential to success in this multifaceted and complex profession of career planning and placement. Although no special academic or experiential background is required to enter the career services profession, specific knowledge in the areas of counseling, career planning, and job…

The Education for All Handicapped Children Act (PL 94-142) mandates a number of counseling and allied services for the handicapped and their parents. Outlines many competencies that need to be considered in developing preservice and in-service programs for counselors serving the handicapped. (Author)

Practicing counselors and researchers are realizing the value of consulting with teachers, parents, and administrators. Counselor educators need to begin to train counselors formally and systematically in these skills. This article presents one training model in detail. (Author)

Describes the influx of Asian Indians to the United States. Discusses the training of multicultural counselors to work effectively with Asian Indian clients, the world view of these clients, acculturation issues, and implications for counseling. Outlines experiential counselor training, such as intern/mentor programs, that can be used to educate…

Conducted a nationwide survey of doctoral counselor education programs (N=51) to examine the relative emphases on instruction, supervision, scholarship, clinical practice, and leadership. Results revealed diversity in the intended roles for which students are prepared. Greatest emphasis was placed on counseling activities in the practicum and…

A survey was undertaken comparing all American Psychological Association (APA)-affiliated master's-degree holders in counseling with a Division 17 (Counseling) doctoral-level sample. Unlike the latter, the master's-level counselors viewed themselves primarily as practitioners, performing psychotherapy/personal counseling. They engaged in little…

Argues that more attention must be given in counselor preparation and practice to developing critical reflectiveness about valued ends when making professional judgments. Describes and evaluates an instructional model designed to further students' capacities and motivations for making rational moral judgments in counseling. (Author/TE)

Provides brief overview of models of ethics training and addresses specific strategies for preventing counselor-client sexual contact (knowledge, activities promoting self-awareness, provision of climate that enhances moral development). Discusses responsibilities of training programs, including provision of clear statements of rights and…

Surveyed counseling psychologists on their involvement in sport psychology research, training, and practice; their affiliation with sport psychology professional organizations; and their attitudes toward current professional sport psychology issues. Found that counseling psychologists were minimally involved, and had received little formal…

Conducted interview with C. H. Patterson regarding the client-centered practice of supervision. Areas discussed include the importance of counseling theory to supervision, components, the question of developmental stages, the supervisory relationship, and roles. Patterson emphasizes need for supervisor to work from explicit theoretical base, both…

Provides rationale for increasing opportunities for counseling psychology students to receive training in child counseling. Proposes two models: exposure model, which would expand existing curricula to enhance students' introduction to child counseling; and subspecialty model, which would provide more intense training through specialized course…