The authors reviewed 114 articles regarding counselor education and supervision published in professional counseling journals during 2018. The articles represented a range of methodologies, providing insight into current supervision, teaching and training, stakeholder experiences, and professional issues. Implications include a need for research…

This article will provide an outline for counselor educators and their students on how to develop and maintain solid supervisory relationships in the online classroom. Counselors-in-training are required to complete practicum and internship experiences during their graduate academic preparation. These field experience courses typically involve 100…

Contends that counseling/therapy is more complicated than it may first appear. Urges counselors/therapists trained in limited areas to place their specific techniques within a general, comprehensive counseling framework. Stresses that failing to do so makes counselors/therapists limited in what treatment they can provide. (CM)

Beginning practicum counselors rated the frequency with which supervisors performed 42 supervisor behaviors. Counselors also rated effectiveness of supervision. Supervisors perceived supervision as providing feedback. Beginning counselors rated supervision as good if a personal supervisor-supervisee relationship existed and supervisors provided…

Coordination of counselor education and supervision is one of the major issues demanding immediate attention. Various background aspects are discussed: (1) the need for counseling supervision, (2) the function of counseling supervision, (3) the goals of supervision, (4) the status of supervision, and (5) the purposes of this study. Included in…

The effect of supervision on the learning of interviewing skills within the microcounseling format was studied. Subjects were randomly assigned to a supervised, nonsupervised, or no-training control condition. Analyses revealed a significant main effect indicating significant improvement in only the supervised group's combined use of opposite and…

Surveyed 75 trainees after supervision sessions to assess working alliances, as well as the trainee's adherence to a treatment model. Found that the trainee's perception of the supervisory alliance was significantly related both to the client's perception of the counseling alliance and to aspects of treatment adherence. Trainees apparently applied…

The first of these two papers discusses the problems faced by practicum students in a newly-created counseling program at Louisiana State University. In an effort to provide a broader background, students were placed in community agencies during the summer months. Bi-weekly seminars kept each candidate abreast of the activities of the others.…

Examines supervision in terms of social influences processes that result in attitude and behavior change in the trainee. Emphasizes attitude change, which both accompanies and mediates behavior change. Explores the implications of the social influence perspective for understanding supervision and for conducting research on supervision. (RJM)

The Multicultural Competency Checklist can be used by counseling training programs as a pragmatic guide in multicultural program development. The checklist includes 22 items organized along 6 major themes: (1) minority representation; (2) curriculum issues; (3) counseling practice and supervision; (4) research considerations; (5) student and…