Counselors and counselor educators were surveyed regarding their attitudes toward death education and grief counseling. Comparative results found that death education and grief training has increased significantly in recent years, but that many school counselors report seminars on death education are not conveniently available. (Author)

Interviewed 13 predoctoral psychology interns about experiences of sexual attraction toward a client. Results indicate that sexual attraction consisted of physical and interpersonal aspects. Therapists believed that they were more invested and attentive than usual to clients to whom they were attracted, but the attraction also introduced distance,…

Investigates the cognitive development of a group of counselor education students (N=43) during their training and also assesses the relationship of cognitive development to actual counseling behavior. Results indicate small incremental gains in counselor cognitive functioning over the course of training. Findings suggest a need to emphasize…

Presents a theoretical framework for conceptualizing how supervisors may use their interactional power to assist women-in-training to assume power. Claims that empowering women requires attending to women's need for connection in interactions. Describes an interactional model for encouraging connected power in supervision. (RJM)

Counselor's multicultural counseling competence has been highlighted as an important ingredient in creating positive counseling outcomes when the clients are ethnic and racial minorities. The use of experiential activities in general, and games in particular, is presented as a potentially useful strategy to instill and enhance multicultural…

Study assessed the knowledge, beliefs, and social comfort of school counselors-in-training, as related to working with children and adolescents who have or are affected by HIV, and these students' concerns and perceptions about their preparedness. Participants reported high levels of general knowledge and positive beliefs; however, they also…

Discusses, from a feminist perspective, issues of anger, power, autonomy, and gender role stereotyping and their importance for women in counseling relationships. Reviews recommendations for training counselors in feminist or nonsexist therapy. (Author)

Describes a two-semester beginning graduate practicum in counseling that integrates the development of external knowledge and skills with the development of the personal internal beliefs and attitudes of the counselor who is being trained. Claims this process ensures training counselors who are able to communicate skills in a personal and…

Interviewed six North American leaders in the field of peer counseling about their perspectives on training and program issues, future trends, and needed research areas. Found responses showed both similarities and differences and covered a broad range of concerns. (Author)

Explored full range of a female counseling student's in-session cognitions by categorizing the content and themes of her cognitions during an entire, nonsimulated session. Findings suggest that beginning counseling students may have few intentional or self-instructive thoughts during a session. (Author/NB)

Investigated ethical attitude changes in counselors in training (n=33) related to specific topics during 16-week, 2-credit counseling ethics course. Results indicated that significant attitudinal changes occurred related to professional ethics and self-awareness, dual relationships, impairments, and multiculturalism. (Author/NB)

Four studies examined role of philosophical commitments in directing preferences for types of counseling. First study provides partial support for relationship between epistemic commitments and preferences for types of counseling. Studies 2 and 3 extend findings, and study 4 provides tentative support for possibility that counselor trainees…

White rehabilitation-counseling graduate students reviewed case materials for a client portrayed as African American to one group and as White to the other. The African-American client was judged to have less potential for education and employment after participants reviewed the initial client information. This difference persisted even after…

Drawing on earlier research, presents the stages of counselors' cognitive flow (what counselors are thinking). Describes associated techniques that can be used by supervisors of any theoretical orientation to teach supervisees working with couples to be aware of and modify their thought processes in sessions. (RJM)

Explores marriage and family therapy student's inclusion of gender in conceptualization of a clinical case by viewing an intake interview conducted by a sex therapist to identify the couple's central issue. Results revealed that trained students who considered gender might have analyzed gender issues more extensively. Discusses how these biases…