Contains five personal accounts: (1) "From the Eye of a Giant" (Walter Earl); (2) "Culture Shock with a Happy Ending" (Terence Hannigan); (3) "Bifocality--And the Space Between" (Tim Olson); (4) "Becoming an Effective Multicultural Counselor" (Woodrow Parker); and (5) "Outback Actualization" (Martin Ritchie). (NB)

Examined tasks performed by counselors working in elementary schools and had counselors assess activities in terms of how highly they valued them and how much time they spent in each activity. Respondents reported valuing most activities more than they participated in them. Findings have implications for counselor education programs. (NB)

Surveyed 155 secondary school counselors from schools organized along three different structures (high schools, junior high schools, combined junior-senior high schools) to examine how the counselors perceived their roles. Counselors in combined schools reported spending greater amounts of time doing educational and vocational guidance.…

Employed triangulation strategy for assessing family interaction, involving family members, therapist, and coders independently viewing videotapes. Found weak agreement between paired assessments within family triad, and within therapist-coder dyad. Findings suggest that methodological and/or scaling strategies designed to maximize agreement may…

Describes investigation comparing two measures of perceived multicultural counseling awareness: the Multicultural Counseling Awareness Scale (MCAS) and the Multicultural Counseling Inventory (MCI). Based on results, suggests that MCI is more appropriate as self-report, that replication of results is warranted, and that generalizability from this…

Examination of the number, content, and intensity of fears of 42 visually impaired children, aged 5-18, found more fears of potentially physically dangerous situations than of psychologically harmful ones and little difference between the number of mild and severe fears. Counselors' estimations of children's fears generally disagreed with the…

Examined extent to which 1988 Council for Accreditation of Counseling and Related Educational Programs (CACREP) standards were judged by counselor educators (n=102) as relevant to counselor preparation. Respondents judged CACREP standards to be crucial or important to accreditation. Judgments of relevance differed significantly by numerical size…

Notes, when client, counselor, and those in client's relevant environments hold differing conceptions of disability, and hence conflicting expectations of the rehabilitation process, that process may be impeded. Proposes an approach to conceptualizing this potential problem using Hershenson's model of faith, logic, and power as successive…

Notes that spirituality and religion are often related to issues clients raise in therapy. Discusses overlap of therapeutic and religious worlds. Considers how some therapists are dealing with this interface. Outlines several ways religious issues can be integrated into family therapy training programs within larger existing framework of training…

Examined time limited (10 sessions) counseling treatments to explore history of working alliance over time. Two counselors working with four clients reported similar patterns of working alliance development. Initial development phase of working relationship appeared to be followed by period when relationship decays, but it appeared that the…

Therapists (n=23) and clients (n=26) reported on their own and their perceptions of each other's covert processes in long-term therapy. Therapists had match rate of 0.45 for client reactions. Although 65% of clients left something unsaid, only 27% of therapists were able to match what clients left unsaid. (Author/NB)

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…

Conducted nationwide survey to compare graduates of doctoral programs in counselor education (CE, n=135) and in counseling psychology (CP, n=121). The findings suggest that great similarities exist between CE and CP doctoral graduates in terms of sex, type of master's education, rate of current employment, professional participation, income, and…

Developed instrument to represent knowledge standards in rehabilitation counseling certification/accreditation and identify new knowledge areas. Findings from 1,025 counselors revealed these domains: vocational counseling/consultative services; medical/psychosocial aspects of disability; individual/group counseling; program evaluation/research;…

Examined elementary school counselors' perceptions of their current interventions with families, their ideal forms of family interventions, and barriers to working with families. Findings from 249 counselors revealed that counselors preferred to work with children individually and consult with teachers more than doing parent consultation.…