This modified Delphi study identifies counselor educators' individual and collective faculty unit characteristics that help and hinder students' development of therapeutic presence. Engaging 15 experts, the findings enhance training approaches and highlight the importance of modeling effective therapeutic dispositions and behaviors in counselor…

Initiated in 1952, the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE) Annual Survey illuminates the state of social work education including enrollment and graduation trends, and the student experience. This annual state of social work education report provides a comprehensive overview of Baccalaureate, Master's, Practice Doctorate, and PhD in social…

As the counseling profession continues to evolve and change, there is a growing need for more professional counselors who are appropriately trained. Research indicated that a high percentage of prospective and current counseling graduate students lacked awareness of the Council for Accreditation of Counseling and Related Educational Programs…

The Annual Survey of Social Work Programs (Annual Survey) is a census of social work programs in the United States and its territories conducted by the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE) since 1952. Data collected in the Annual Survey are the primary source of information about social work students, graduates, and faculty members. In addition…

The future is unfolding now, framed by unprecedented trends of complex humanitarian contexts. To prepare for this as a profession, social work education faculties need to respond to the current call for the scaling up of well-prepared social work practitioners. The Preparation for Complex Humanitarian Contexts for Pre-Service Social Work Students…

Many professional school counselors regularly serve as site supervisors to school counselors-in-training, despite never receiving formal supervision training. Using a phenomenological approach, the researchers explored school counseling site supervisors' (N = 15) experiences in a clinical faculty school counseling university supervision training…

Social workers and attorneys both interact with persons from diverse backgrounds every day, yet although interpersonal skills are an essential focus of social work education, these skills are not addressed in legal education. Interdisciplinary courses in which social workers and lawyers learn interpersonal skills together and have an opportunity…

Utilizing games within the classroom may assist counselor educators with enhancing learning. Counselor educators may integrate games within the curriculum to assist students in learning and developing self-awareness and to assess knowledge and skills. This article describes the utilization of games within experiential-learning theory and presents…

This paper presents an empirical approach to supervision and training of marriage and family therapists. Advantages from the use of the empirical approach include a systematic investigation of the skills and competencies of the therapists, and establishing the basis for the scientific study of supervision. Two case studies are given. (Author)

Examines the many benefits that may result when biofeedback experiences are included in a counselor-education program. Protocol is enumerated for the implementation of biofeedback in counselor education. Objectives and procedures for each of the three stages are presented for the reader's evaluation. (Author)

With character education as one of the fastest growing reform movements in education today, counselor educators and counseling students need to be informed and cognizant of various character education programs. Currently, more than 30 states mandate some aspect of character education and school counselors are frequently responsible for introducing…

Two factors in the relationship between counselor education programs and elementary and secondary schools have provided continuing issues of contention. First is the debate between the idealism assigned to counselor education programs and the realism encountered in the school setting. A second factor addresses the concept that training…

Summarizes the development of guidance and counseling and the concurrent development of counselor education in Malaysia. Four currrent counselor education programs in Malaysia are described. The need for school counselors in Malaysia is addressed, and differences between the number of counselors needed and the projected number of counselors who…

In a national survey of entry-level school counselor preparation programs, counselor educators were asked about the extent to which they addressed concepts defined by The Education Trust literature and the extent to which these concepts were important in preparing school counselors. Discusses the relationship between existing programs and The…