This publication of the California Association of School Psychologists includes articles written by practitioners, trainers, and students. The topics represent a sampling of the broad range of students that school psychologists are asked to serve today. Two articles discuss current findings relevant to working with the populations of students who…

Contains 16 articles presenting issues and practices concerning assessment and appraisal as they relate to counselors. Addresses specific areas of concern to counselors and provides commentaries differing in style and emphasis. Includes discussions of issues and an integration of many practices and procedures. (RC)

Reviews the historical development of the Canadian Guidance and Counselling Association guidelines for counselor education programs. Identifies definitions and working principals which guidelines are based on. Discusses importance and advantages of guidelines and unaddressed issues such as certification and training outside university departments.…

In eight articles, discusses values clarification: its history, controversial issues, and future. Addresses the application of values clarification in career counseling, school counseling, counselor training, civil liberties, and counseling the culturally different. An annotated bibliography is included. (JAC)

Describes why counselor training incorporating the needs of racial and ethnic minorities is needed and provides four models: (1) the separate course model; (2) the area of concentration model, (3) the interdisciplinary model; and (4) the integration model, which may be used in program development and implementation. (Author)

Recommends curricular change for experiential and didactic training to increase a counselor trainee's sensitivity, skills, and knowledge regarding disability. Discusses the need to team trainees from school and rehabilitation counseling training programs so that these professionals can work cooperatively for the benefit of the client with a…

Discusses the concept of maximal ethics as a basis of counselor behavior and describes the need for ethics development in counselor education training. Notes modeling aspects of counselor educator behavior and considers programming for ethical development in counselor training. Suggests resource materials for counselor training in ethics. (RC)

Focusing on schools and colleges of education, the article reviews the problems of cultural and sex bias and stereotyping in teacher and counselor education. Suggests intervention strategies such as courses and workshops for preservice and in-service teachers and counselors to prepare them to develop bias free programs. (MF)

British Career Guidance depends heavily on the careers officer, a community-based counselor. Because of changing needs, recent efforts have sought to standardize the professional training of careers officers and to establish support agencies which will enable careers officers to provide career guidance, information and placement on a broader…

Assessed effects of nursing home staff training in care for the dying on quality of life of 306 terminally ill patients in 5 pairs of matched nursing homes assigned randomly to trained and not trained staff groups. Patients in trained homes had less depression and greater satisfaction with care than patients in control homes at 1 and 3 months.…

Examined perceptions of Asian, Black, Hispanic, and Native American counseling and clinical supervisees (N=225) to study quality of cross-cultural individual therapist supervision. Identified five nonorthogonal dimensions (supervisor's liking, emotional discomfort, conditional interest, conditional liking, unconditional liking). Found combination…

An investigation of graduate students' perceptions (n=32) of the effectiveness of a three-part videotape series on group work, "Group Work: Leading in the Here and Now," was conducted. In general, the videotape series was perceived positively. Implications for counselor educators are discussed. (Author/JBJ)

Qualitative interviews were conducted with family therapy supervisors and their supervisees to understand how they perceived their experiences in live supervision. Supervisor and supervisees described helpful supervision experiences that were related to the supervisees' development as therapists. However, both viewed the three primary categories…

Reviews sources of indirect evidence supporting the value of graduate training in psychotherapy. Discusses training protocols that are known to enhance trainees' skills and summarizes a meta-analysis of therapy outcome studies involving within-study comparisons of psychotherapists of different levels of training and experience. Other research is…

Presents a model for school counselors to follow in developing curriculum expertise. Presents steps for designing units that involve parents and teachers. Since guidance programs should be developmental, systematic, and comprehensive in scope, units should be part of the broader goal for the guidance plan. (RJM)