Discusses the hesitancy of counselors and psychotherapists to approach the spiritual concerns of clients. Proposes a counseling and psychotherapy training model that contains discrete yet continuous levels of learning. The holistic epistemology of Gregory Bateson is used to derive guiding theoretical principles for the training model. (Author/JAC)

Uses acronym GROUP ETHICS to describe training knowledge and skill competencies for ethical counseling in groups. Concludes guidelines for individuals in training to be group counselors are too vague and thus allow neophyte leaders to place themselves in ethical jeopardy. (ABL)

Using American Psychological Association Division 17 position paper on cross-cultural counseling competencies as organizing framework, provides overview of various cross-cultural counseling training models and points to need to go beyond sensitivity training to actually providing culture-specific knowledge in training models. Presents…

This book was written to provide information about the principles, process, and practice of counselor supervision for both clinical and administrative supervisors. The 12 chapters of the book are organized under three major headings. Part I, Counselor Supervision: Essentials for Training, consists of chapters 1 and 2. Chapter 1 includes the basic…

Notes that Structural Family Therapy needs a training model that integrates the existential, human mutuality of the therapeutic relationship with its technical elements. Offers a theoretical foundation for training structural family therapists in the use of self, discusses a model for training, and gives a case example illustrating personal…

Discusses employment counseling as practiced during past 30 years in U.S. Employment Services (now Job Service), including historical forces that affected employment counseling, their consequences over this time period, and employment counseling training initiatives. Describes Competency-Based Employment Counselor Training Model and identifies…

Presents a graphic matrix, the Three Dimensional Intervention Model, to serve as a framework to help counselors visualize the mutual relationships of counseling, consultation, and supervision. An integrated perspective is needed for the enhancement of professionalism and the increase of the overall effectiveness of counseling practitioners. (JAC)

Describes a program designed to train advanced family therapists in the conceptual and technical skills of family therapy supervision. Elaborates upon the content, overall organization, and contextual influences in the complex enterprise of training family therapy supervisors in a program that emphasizes the live observation of the…

Examines the stages through which trainees pass on their way to the development of competency in working with clients of dissimilar racial or ethnic background. Proposes a model which provides an appropriate learning environment for each stage. (JAC)

Offers a model for quality training in family therapy. Describes the Family Consortium, which is aimed at practicing professionals and emphasizes structural family therapy principles with strategic and experiential elements. Discusses the current theoretical philosophy and training approach and gives examples of how the Consortium deals with…

Outlines tenets of multimodal therapy (MMT) and argues for its cost-effective yet comprehensive value as a brief psychotherapy model. Describes MMT as an integrated, seven-modality model of personality and provides clinical examples of its use. Argues that MMT approach will be an important future alternative to more expensive, time-consuming, and…

Offers model to teach counselor trainees about behaviors exhibited by alcohol abusers in need of detoxification. Discusses behaviors displayed by helpers while conducting initial intake interviews with abusers seeking detoxification in a community setting and offers suggestions for how novice practitioners can establish rapport with such clients…

Notes that practicum and internship programs in a counselor education department may encounter two basic types of problems: those which require structural change and those which do not. Presents the Practicum-Internship Problem Solving (PIPS) model, a model that combines systems concepts with consultative approach to help to identify and solve…

Integrates work of cross-cultural counselor training development theorists, racial-identity development specialists, and cross-cultural counseling competency experts in formation of comprehensive multicultural training model for majority-group counselors. Reviews and integrates extant stage models of white racial consciousness, describes how…

This paper presents the subject knowledge base and field experience practice of the only post-secondary program to train employment counselors in Canada at Fleming College (Ontario). It lists the range of studies pursued in the program in the fields of psychology, the humanities, business and the economy, and field practice. The first section…