Asserts that mental health counselor education has overemphasized psychopathology and psychotherapy in its curriculum and has not devoted sufficient attention to positive mental health topics such as mobilization of assets, environmental influences, cultural factors, work behavior, rehabilitation, preventive interventions, and use of support…

Discusses the need for a revitalization of a scientific agenda for clinical supervision. Reviews philosophy of science and scientific methods and attempts to disentangle common misconceptions about a scientific agenda as applied to supervision. Exhorts supervisors to be critical consumers of research and theory and to pursue programmatic and…

Describes Texas A&M School Psychology Doctoral Program which offers ongoing training emphasis in Hispanic children and youth with handicaps. Identifies factors related to recruitment and retention of Hispanic trainees. Notes that graduates from program have influenced education of Hispanic students with handicaps through delivering services…

Notes that, although students with severe emotional disturbances present challenge to school psychologists, many school psychologists have only limited hands-on experience with this population. Describes project to train school psychology students at preservice level in intervention techniques especially applicable to children and youth with…

Describes how the faculty of a counselor-education program developed and implemented a social-advocacy model of counselor preparation. States that preparing counselors to be advocates for change puts counseling in action. Encourages counselor educators to consider the value of social advocacy in counselor preparation. (Author/MKA)

Reviews the results of a study that compares the current number of qualified counselor-education faculty candidates with the number of candidates in 1993, as well as the average number of faculty per department. Information regarding specialty area, ethnicity, degrees and experience level, rank and tenure-track status, and the ordinal rank of the…

Despite numerous counselor training programs that espouse a scientist-practitioner orientation, rivalry, rather than collegiality, is often present between researchers and counselors. This article presents a teaching template intended to decrease this tension by highlighting similarities between the two professional specializations. Implications…

Recent school psychology surveys confirm that graduates and practitioners with specialist-level preparation dominate current practice and graduate-program enrollment. Specialist level is likely to continue to dominate because most programs are in institutions that cannot offer doctoral degrees. Few differences exist in master's-, specialist-, and…

Describes a teaching strategy in which counselors-in-training vicariously work with clients according to various theoretical orientations for use in an introductory family-counseling course. An evolving vignette features a family in various developmental stages. Intergenerational transmission possibilities are introduced when trainees work with…

An ethnographic study of the experiences of graduate students (N=8) learning to consult revealed three primary themes. Content analysis and subsequent structural corroboration of three datasets indicated participants' application of procedures, awareness of professional perspectives, and emphasis on attending relationships. Discusses implications…

Upper-class undergraduates (n=740) beginning graduate students in counseling (n=78) and mental health professionals (n=45) were surveyed regarding attitudes toward rape victims. Results show that male undergraduates had the most negative attitudes toward rape victims, and female professionals the most favorable. Male participants held more…

Examines sexually oriented relationships between educators/supervisors and their students/supervisees during masters training in social work and mental health counseling. Using logistic regression procedures, significant statistical associations are reported between levels of sexual intimacy and professional association membership as well as age…

Presents three cases designed to generate discussion among trainees of system-based hypotheses in family counseling. The cases involve key concepts that tend to emerge within initial interviews. Important system ideas are presented for each case, and follow-up information is provided which identifies the famous people used in these cases. (RJM)

Discusses the multicultural training process with Anglo trainees as it relates to supportively assisting Anglos with the difficult task of confronting White racism, teaching Anglos to respond empathetically to challenges from ethnic-minority colleagues and clients, and introducing Anglos to the joys inherent in multicultural counseling. (RJM)

Responds and elaborates on an article on preparing Anglo graduate students for the journey toward a multicultural perspective. Affirms assertions for a balanced support-challenge model in multicultural training, for the usefulness of self-disclosure in these courses, and for articulation of the rewards of becoming a multiculturalist. (RJM)