The Experiential Consultation Training Model (ECTM) provides students an opportunity to develop and practice consultation skills through real-life experiences in actual professional settings. The authors present the structure, process, and evaluation methods of the ECTM and discuss practical applications for counselor education. (Contains 1 table.)

Substance abuse counselors who address clients' spiritual development may provide more comprehensive counseling. This article presents an integrative supervision model designed to promote the spiritual development of substance abuse counselors-in-training, reviews the model, and discusses the implications for counselor education.

Counselors-in-training are challenged with the ambiguity inherent in skill acquisition and development processes. This article explores the concept of ambiguity and ambiguity tolerance in counselors-in-training. A framework is provided for conceptualizing the inherent challenges of counselor training and how they may be addressed.

Skills dissemination refers to therapeutic interventions which train individuals in human development process skill for their own benefit and that of those around them. The author discusses prerequisites to dissemination, skills or content satisfying these prerequisites, methods for dissemination, and necessary education and training for…

Although a focus on counsellor-client alliance is prominent within counsellor education, specific skills that compose this aspect of the helping process remain nebulous. As such, faculty and students have relied on general guidelines and suggestions regarding the engagement process. Research conducted by Bedi, Davis, and Arvay (2005), however,…

Studied behavioral versus mental rehearsal in acquiring test interpretation skills. Treatment groups practiced in either a microskills (MS) or mental practice (MP) mode. MS and MP trainees did not differ but were superior to controls on measures of general counseling and test interpretation skills. (Author/MCF)

A proponent of the scientist-practitioner model, Arnold Goldstein has devoted his career to the study and practice of helping people change. In this interview he discusses the origins of his interest in aggression and violence, the development of models for enhancing prosocial skills, and he reflects on the current and future status of counselor…

Counselor empathy is understanding a client's experience cognitively and affectively. The authors question if it is possible for empathy to exist at a functional level when shared experience does not. They examine the properties of empathy and suggest use of literature to enhance empathic development in counselors. (Author)

Describes a model that can be used as a roadmap to provide supervision to counselors in a manner that facilitates professional growth and development rather than evaluation. Doctoral students like the model because it provides a guideline for developing their own styles of supervision. (Author/BEF)

The purpose of this document is to describe the development and implementation of a course in technology in counselor education. The main goal of the course was to provide students with an overview of the use and application of technology in counseling and related fields. The four objectives of the course were to: (a) provide an introduction to…

Examined the relationship between acquisition of counseling skills and trainee attitudes toward psychological counseling. Results indicated that negative attitudes expressed through listing of adjectives about counseling clients are pervasive, even following training in skills thought to imply a positive view of the client. (RC)

This three-part report covers a series of three workshops which were designed to provide an opportunity for practicing school counselors to improve present skills, to become familiar with new counseling strategies, and to increase proficiency in administering services they provide to their constituents. The first workshop focuses on individual…

A comparative analysis was made of academically experienced and inexperienced students in a college level counseling education program to determine the influence of practical experience in counseling. Findings indicated that most students in both groups benefited by receiving counseling skills training. (Author/DB)

Examined impact of sex role orientation and level of self-disclosure flexibility of counselors on their ability to demonstrate counseling skills and their overall counseling response effectiveness. Results indicated sex role orientation and level of self-disclosure flexibility accounted for 30 percent of the variance in counseling skills quality.…

Focuses on the value of a multicultural counseling prepracticum course for counselors in training at Virginia Commonwealth University (Richmond). States that the course helps students develop their skills in multicultural counseling. Offers suggestions for teaching the course and discusses course objectives, course content, and student responses.…