Describes a course in which counseling students were taught the scientist-practitioner model, giving them an opportunity to integrate theory, research, and practice. Several themes arose from the students' experiences: analysis of contradictory responses; an enhanced awareness that they should increase their awareness of clients' perceptions; and…

Study examines parental factors that influence career development among African American and Mexican American college students. Analysis of student interviews reveals that parents are influential in the following career domains: encouragement, educational expectations, critical life events, vicarious learning, and work identity. Career development…

This second in a series of five papers on communication reticence discusses the establishment of a setting for the treatment of communicationally reticent individuals. Eleven years of operation of a formal program at the Pennsylvania State University provides the basis for discussion of factors in the operation of the system. An eclectic…

Presents five articles devoted to multimodal theory, research, and practice. Topics include cognitive intervention, the effects of counseling on classroom performance, motivating student attendance with friendship groups, multimodal self management for college students, and a case study describing child adolescent multimodal therapy. (JAC)

Addresses prospect of approaching clinical inquiry as a scientific activity and considering counseling practice as a context for scientific training of counseling psychologists. Discusses problems in attempting to find common ground between clinical teaching and research training. Proposes that scientific training needs to include development of…

Discusses the aims and outcomes of college counseling systems for both "traditional" age students and adult students. Provides profiles of the adult learner that indicate differences in goals and needs of these students. Discusses the contributions from cross-cultural counseling literature that draws parallels between these students and adult…

Analyzed counseling sessions conducted by counselors (N=8) treating undergraduate and graduate student clients (N=18) to determine whether distinctive patterns of actions and acts might provide a basis for a social science of counseling psychology. Found patterns of action-act sequences that warrant further investigation. (Author/CM)

Presents the results of a survey of counselor preparation programs in the U.S. over a 10-year period, concerning courses, program emphases, philosophical orientations, and experiential components. Found expanding number of courses, number of degrees, and program emphases with increasing stress on specialization. Discusses implications for the…

Contents of this book include:Introduction (Charles Thomas); White racism: Its roots, form, and function (James P. Comer); Boys no more: Some social psychological aspects of the new Black ethic (Charles W. Thomas); General systems theory and Black Studies: Some points of convergence (Cedric Clark); The misuse of a so-called psychological…

Describes cultural influences on guidance and counseling services in Ethiopia, Nigeria, South Africa, Japan, Thailand, Australia, New Zealand, England, Ireland, Germany, Iran and Canada. The 20 articles of this special international edition also discuss counseling trends and the impact of foreign cultures on American visitors. (JAC)

This document contains case studies of troubled adolescents and is intended for use by educators for discussions, especially in in-service and graduate programs. Case studies of 10 young adolescents are presented, each followed by a set of questions drawn from a psychological theory. To help new practitioners who may have difficulty connecting…

This monograph describes the theory and practice of the invitational learning model as it applies to school counseling and development. Invitational learning is a paradigm for personal and professional functioning, and for organizational restructuring, based on four values regarding the nature of people and their potential and the nature of…

This paper argues for a closer connection between departments of counseling psychology and schools of education, based on the contention that all educators must understand the nature of behavior, the vulnerabilities of students during development, the sources of environmental influences contributing to behavioral effect on school performance, and…

Albert Ellis's Rational Emotive Therapy (RET), which assumes that a person can change an emotional disturbance by discovering and disputing the irrational ideas giving rise to that emotion, has been used effectively in treating public speaking anxiety. To compare RET with other treatments for communication apprehension, 52 high communication…

This monograph contains the proceedings of the Flagship Conference of the Association for Counselor Education and Supervision (ACES), which was designed to discuss the future of counselor education and to share images of how the counseling profession can be promoted and enhanced. The 16 papers are loosely divided into categories. The first two…