Examines how counselor education faculty and students determine the ethical appropriateness of dilemmas portraying dual relationships in friendships, mentoring, monetary interactions, and romantic-sexual relationships. Results suggest that, unlike most students, faculty trust the ability of counselor educators to maintain objectivity and avoid…

Investigated perceptions of counselors, counselor educators, and state legislators in Ohio regarding impact of state counselor licensure. Most counselors and counselor educators felt that counseling licensure law had improved credibility of counseling profession in Ohio, provided greater protection for counseling consumers in the state, and had…

Forty-five counselor educators and 62 master's-level counseling students were surveyed to compare faculty members' perceptions of trainee competence with students' own views. As anticipated, students reported higher deficiency rates than did their faculty. Combined with the intervention rates reported by corresponding faculty, students' reports…

Presents summary of views by counselor educators and Association for Specialists in Group Work members responding to "Duality: The Issues That Won't Go Away" at 1991 American Association for Counseling and Development Annual Convention. Notes that duality refers to multiple roles counselor educators may hold while teaching courses with…

The purpose of the present study was to determine the perceptions of expectations and practices that contribute to decisions regarding promotion and tenure for counselor educators. Council for Accreditation of Counseling and Related Educational Programs liaisons for 74 counselor education programs responded to an Internet-based survey about…

Surveyed 235 rehabilitation educators to identify their perceptions of actual and preferred instructional emphasis in bachelor's, master's, doctoral, and continuing education programs. Results suggested a preference for greatest emphasis at the master's level, with a preference for strong research rather than clinical practice focus in doctoral…

Nationwide sample of rehabilitation educators (n=139) responded to survey regarding their self-perceived abilities to teach competencies relevant to rehabilitation practice. Educators perceived abilities to be highest in teaching Vocational Counseling, Personal Adjustment Counseling, and Professional Development and Community Involvement. Found no…

Reports the results of a sexual curricula questionnaire sent to all United States counselor education programs (N=506). Data based on 243 responses indicate that educators believe that there is a need for sexual curricula in counselor education programs. However, many educators are not systematically including such information in their training.…

The authors present the results of a survey investigating ethics education practices in counselor education programs accredited by the Council for Accreditation of Counseling and Related Educational Programs and counselor educators' beliefs regarding ethics education. Survey responses describe current curricular approaches to ethics education,…

Teachers, counselors, guidance directors, counselor educators, and others were surveyed to determine the prevailing attitude toward prior school experience for counselor certification. The teacher and counselor groups supported the idea that some experience was desirable, but only the counselor group endorsed the three-year requirement. (Author)

Research training of counsellors and counsellor educators has been widely debated. In this study, the authors explore the perceptions of 106 counsellor educators regarding their doctoral research coursework. They also examine the relationship between participants' semester hours in research methods and later research publications. Participants…

Explored attitudes and approaches toward research within master's level art therapy training programs. Questionnaires were completed by 25 research methodology instructors of graduate programs in art therapy. Findings suggest profile of diversity of approaches used to educate art therapy trainees in research process. Respondents expressed…

This study examines the relationship between skill emphases in rehabilitation counselor education (RCE) programs and perceived importance of those skills for counselor effectiveness. Examining results between this nationwide survey of rehabilitation counselor educators and data from an earlier research by Leahy, Chan, and Saunders (2003) that…

This study was conducted to investigate the perspectives of the various populations served by the secondary school counselor concerning the roles and functions of that counselor. The Counselor Roles and Functions Questionnaire was administered to 9 counselors, 8 administrators, 56 teachers, 14 counselor educators, 178 students, 26 parents, 14…

The authors explore the ethical issues and challenges frequently encountered by counselor educators of multicultural course work. Existing ethics codes are examined, and the need for greater specificity with regard to teaching courses of multicultural content is addressed. Options for revising existing codes to better address the challenges of…