Describes "The Counseling Psychologist's" (TCP) format and content, policy issues, editing experiences, and the interplay of professional and social forces during the years of 1997 to 1998. Focuses on the journal's mission to extend the tradition of the TCP by building on its many strengths. (GCP)

Explores the ethical dilemmas raised by changes in research paradigms that encourage the development of a relationship between researcher and participant. In such contexts it becomes increasingly difficult to distinguish between a therapeutic relationship and a research interview. (Author/GCP)

Advocates the need for a much stronger emphasis on and commitment to the science and practice of prevention in counseling psychology. Highlights historical and recent developments in the profession, as well as changing U.S. demographics and societal needs that mandate an enhanced prevention focus for the field. Articulates a prevention-based…

Presents a reaction to major contribution articles from this issue of "The Counseling Psychologist" (2000, [this issue]). Highlights important concepts that call for the field of counseling psychology to go "back to basics," including identity issues; the scope of prevention; prevention evaluation research; preventive…

Provides a selective review of the multicultural counseling training (MCT) literature. A brief historical account of multicultural counseling is followed by three other sections detailing current models of MCT, conceptualization of training objectives, and empirical research. Highlights and discusses critical issues for the present and future…

Briefly traces the history of psychology internship training to its central role in professional training in counseling psychology. Discusses current issues, including supply and demand, increased applicant costs, timing of internship, and escalation of practicum training hours, and outlines future considerations. Emphasizes training for the full…

Examines the state of training in the practice of supervision in doctoral programs and predoctoral internship sites accredited by the American Psychological Association. Results indicate that although a majority of programs and sites offer some type of opportunity for training in supervision, there are differences in the methods and extent of the…

Examines the relationship between metacogniton and vocational indecision within the parameters of a theory of cognitive information processing. Results reveal a significant statistical relationship between metacognition and vocational indecision. In particular, individuals who scored higher on the measure of metacognition evidenced a greater…

Reports on six studies exploring the existence of a complementary stereotype of men as hypoemotional. As predicted, counselors and college students consistently stereotyped men as hypoemotional. Suggests that this stereotype is also associated with biased counseling-relevant judgments. Discusses implications of this stereotype for counseling, as…

Uses concept mapping tasks and association tasks to examine knowledge structures about clients. Four experienced and five novice counselors read a counseling transcript, categorized client statements, and mapped the relationships among categories. Results support the information-processing perspective with novice counselors attending to surface…

Argues that the classification of life experiences as epiphanies is a task critical to personal growth. Uses narrative analysis to illuminate the factors that seem to influence the choice of events as epiphanies for survivors of sexual abuse. Examines such narratives from the life and work of D.H. Lawrence, as well as modern narratives from…

The authors attempted to replicate and extend D. M. Kivlighan and P. Shaughnessy's (2000) findings of (a) 3 distinctive patterns of alliance development across sessions and (b) a differential association of one of these, a U-shaped quadratic growth pattern, with positive treatment outcome. In data drawn from a clinical trial of brief…

This reaction addresses the Major Contribution related to multicultural research in counseling psychology. Although the three articles composing the Major Contribution have different foci and may be viewed independently, an implicit proposal inherent within each is the call to move beyond complacency to commitment, a phrase devised by Carter,…

This reaction to the contribution by Romano and Kachgal includes the following: (a) a discussion of its strengths, (b) an expansion of their model of collaboration between school counseling and counseling psychology by underscoring the importance of multiculturalism and context in schools, and (c) some future directions and implications for…

Romano and Kachgal have done an outstanding job of describing the historical, current, and potential relationship between counseling psychology and school counseling. Their summary of these issues should be required reading for all faculty who participate, directly or indirectly, in a school counseling program; all reviewers of manuscripts for…