Investigates counselors' attitudes toward sex offenders and the relationship of these attitudes to counselors' experience, training, and personal characteristics. Results indicate that counselors tend to have positive attitudes toward sex offenders and that experience, preparation from training, and victim status are related to these positive…

Surveys 291 psychiatrists who completed training between 1962 and 1992. Reveals positive correlations between the amount of couple and family therapy training (CFTT) they received and the following: the extent to which graduate psychiatrists practice CFT; their involvement as supervisors, teachers, or researchers; and the extent to which they seek…

Examines how Black churches provide a source of psychological support to African Americans. Uses group theory as a conceptual framework to discuss the findings of focus groups. Discusses implications for counselors, including challenging their own biases towards religion that may affect their ability to make effective interventions, and being…

Reports on a survey on practicing professional counselors' perceptions of their multicultural competence and the nature of their pre- and in-service professional preparation in this area. There was no significant difference in self-perceived multicultural competence between graduates of Council for Accreditation of Counseling and Related…

Explores variables that predict counselors' ability to conceptualize clients' mental health issues from a multicultural perspective. Results reveal that counselors with higher levels of multicultural training, an eclectic/integrative orientation to counseling, and higher affective empathy attitudes, were rated as better able to conceptualize a…

This article reexamines the help-seeking behavior of African American college students with a focus on possible counselor biases as well as biases in the settings in which counselors work. These issues are discussed as possible contributing factors to the underutilization of counseling by African American college students. Strategies to overcoming…

Despite the increased attention paid to the preparation of multiculturally competent school counselors, there is a paucity of information regarding the multicultural competence of existing professional school counselors. Therefore, this study's primary goal was to focus on school counselors' perceptions of their own multicultural counseling…

The author recently spent part of a sabbatical from her university exploring the most current research on treating clients diagnosed with Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). During the sabbatical, she was struck by how her own complacency had become unintentionally disinviting to her work with these clients, as she learned that preconceptions…

This study explored supervision experiences in 69 U.S. racial/ethnic minority supervisees working with White supervisors. The results demonstrated that perceived prejudice was associated with role ambiguity and role conflict in supervision, suggesting that supervision may not occur in isolation from trainees' lived experience. Implications for…

A variance in attitudes concerning roles and responsibilities between school administrators and school counseling students led the authors to advocate for change in the professional preparation of both. A study was conducted in which preservice counselors and administrators were brought together for an opportunity to dialogue about role…

The authors examined the career concerns of 152 counselor trainees in 7 master's-level programs accredited by the Council for Accreditation of Counseling and Related Educational Programs. Results indicate that counselor trainees expressed considerable professional development, adjustment, and academia concerns while reporting minimal job-search…

To enhance the effectiveness of therapy for Spanish-speaking individuals and families requires an understanding of the subtleties of language use and interpretive processing. The purpose of this phenomenological study was to describe the interpretive process in bilingual psychotherapists as they reflected upon their lived experiences of providing…

Current attention to the study of values in counseling and psychotherapy reflect a shift from earlier notions that counseling can be or should be a value-free enterprise. This study looked at the values that characterize counselors and therefore may influence the counseling process. The study looked at values in four domains: mental health values;…

Although psychologists have played key roles in providing mental health services to rural populations for many years, only recently has the profession begun to devote more attention to the issues of psychologists who work in rural areas. Existing literature on rural mental health has focused primarily on unique problems of rural populations and…

Empirical studies on the ethical decision-making practices of school psychologists are lacking. The purpose of this study was to investigate school psychologists' preferred resolutions to a number of ethical problems and their reasons for acting in a chosen manner. Members (N=76) of the National Association of School Psychologists were surveyed. A…