A Culturally Responsive Intervention for Addressing Problematic Behaviors in Counseling Students

Counseling faculty serve as gatekeepers to protect the public from trainees who demonstrate significant deficiencies in professional functioning. Two issues that have not been thoroughly examined are how different cultural values may intersect with the assessment of appropriate professional competencies and whether the multicultural environment of programs is considered when assessing potentially problematic students. The authors suggest a group systems intervention and provide implications and recommendations for counselor educators.     

Professional Development in Counseling Older Persons

Because of belated attention to gerontology, most counselors concerned with older persons seem to require initial professional development rather than renewal. Development calls for enhancement of both knowledge and attitudes; interrelated areas delineated in this article. Knowledge needed includes stages and tasks encountered over the life span, recognition of individual variations on life-span themes, and specific information on such significant phases as career change, retirement, and death and dying. Attitudes, composed of cognitive and affective elements, may require intensive efforts to supplant stereotypes with unbiased views and appreciative feelings. Consideration is given to the relative merits of coursework, fieldwork, and other experiences in effecting attitudinal change. Programs and courses presently available are indicated and future prospects proposed, toward improvement of professional development in counseling older persons.     

引导教师制订个人的发展规划

发展性教师评价的目的是促进教师自主发展，因此引导教师制订恰当的自我发展规划是实施发展性教师评价的重要内容。具体来讲，就是要帮助教师树立专业理想，引导教师进行自我反思并在此基础上提出恰当的目标和切实可行的行动计划。     

Brief Counseling for Problematic Drinking: A University Counseling Center's Model

This article describes the design of a brief counseling model for students presenting with alcohol use concerns at one state university counseling center.     

Student Counseling Needs

Abstract

Three hundred forty-three students at a small urban northeastern college rated their needs for counseling assistance on fifty-three personal, learning and career issues. Strongest areas of concern included financial stresses, academic perfonriance, career development, relationship skills, bereavement and the fear of getting AIDS. Gender and racial groups are compared and implications for counseling center service delivery are discussed.     

Interactive Training Model: Enhancing Beginning Counseling Student Development

The authors propose the Interactive Training Model (ITM), a full classroom role play experience, as a method for helping student counselors develop essential interviewing and counseling skills and self‐awareness as required by the 2009 Council for Accreditation of Counseling and Related Educational Programs Standards. This pre‐post, quasiexperimental study involving 45 master's‐level students indicated that those who participated in the ITM made greater gains in supervisee development compared with those who participated in a traditional peer feedback model. Narrative student feedback regarding the use of ITM in an essential skills course is presented, and implications for counselor education are discussed.     

从学生角色到职业角色的转变

高职生就业从跨入大学校门的第一天就已经开始。通过从心理状态、职业技能、团队合作、同事沟通等等提升自己的就业能力、适应能力,尽快转变角色,实现顺利就业。有目的地找准自己的职业定位,会使一个人在成功的道路上找准方向,少走弯路。从学生角色到职业角色的转变代表了人生的又一起点,能充分体现个人的特点和能力。正确评估自我、循序渐进地完成角色转变,意味职业人生成功了一半。     

如何促进实习生在教育实习中的专业成长

实习生的专业成长是指实习生通过实习在专业知识与能力、自主意识等方面获得发展和提高的过程,它可以划分为准备、适应、调整和提升四个阶段.在准备期,指导教师应积极与实习生沟通,指导其做好实习准备;在适应期,指导教师应帮助实习生获得"教师"威信;在调整期,指导教师应鼓励实习生积极反思;在提升期,指导教师应敦促实习生关注幼儿与自身发展.     

团体辅导与学生成长

当前高校学生群体中存在着众多共性问题需要辅导员依据不同学生群体的特点及问题的性质,通过团体辅导的方式给予正确引导和提前预防,从而培养全面、自由、充分、可持续发展的学生,促进学生成长与辅导员的发展.     

A Grounded Theory of Counseling Students Who Report Problematic Peers

All counselors, including students, are responsible for intervening when a colleague shows signs of impairment. This grounded theory study investigated experiences of 12 counseling students who reported problematic peers. An emergent theory of the peer reporting process is presented, along with implications for counselor educators and suggestions for future research.     

Development of Professional Identity for Counseling Professionals: A Mindfulness-Based Perspective

Professional identity development (PID), which involves transformational learning, is crucial for counselors and trainees. However most current training approaches focus more on specific tasks related to PID without focusing on the transformational learning aspect. Mindfulness is an important component for transformational learning; however, limited effort has been focused on its likely impact on PID. This conceptual article describes the need for integrating mindfulness into PID, and explains applications of mindfulness practices in assisting counselors to enhance development of a professional identity in the course of completing transformational tasks through a transformative learning process. Recommendations for future practice and research are included.     

College Student Depression: Counseling Billy

A substantial portion of the college student population experiences affective disorders. This case study presents the conceptualization, course of treatment, and outcomes for a male college student presenting for counseling with depression. A review of Adlerian, cognitive‐behavioral, and Gestalt techniques is provided.     

College Counseling and Student Retention:

Although it is commonly believed that college counseling positively affects student retention and further, that there are convincing data and evidence to support such a belief, an extensive literature search found no objective evidence at all on the relationship of a counseling center's conventional one-to-one counseling and therapy activities with short-term student retention. Two program evaluations which attempt to relate one-to-one individual counseling and psychotherapy to student retention rates at an urban regional state university are discussed. Changes in attendance rates, such as dropping out or retuning between quarters are the criteria used to evaluate program effects for both studies. The first study searched for discernible statistically significant effects. Three-quarters of comparisons of upperclassmen found conceivable retention advantages of students receiving counseling center services over a base-rate group. Yet the freshmen results suggest that counseling may be associates with student attrition, not retention. The second study investigated the relationship between retention and possibly relevant presenting problems and demographic variables of students undergoing individual counseling. No attendance differences among counseled students were found due to age, gender, or presenting problem. Following a discussion of the results, suggentions for future research are presented. A longitudinal, quasi-experimental controlled study of the impact counseling on student retention is clearly needed.     

Padua University Psychiatric Student Counseling Service

Abstract

Although the literature reports a high prevalence of psychological distress among the university student population, still very few intervention schemes have been proposed to manage the problem. The authors describe the main sources of inspiration for the psychiatric counseling service established at Padua University (Italy) and how it operates. Emphasis is laid on counseling quality, operator professionalism, research activities, ethical aspects and resource allocation. The implications for adequate counseling are discussed. Preliminary data suggest that university-based psychiatric counseling centres provide a useful service.     

Student Athletes' Perceived Barriers to and Preferences for Seeking Counseling

The purpose of this study was to investigate attitudes of intercollegiate student athletes regarding their use of counseling services. The authors assessed student athletes’ perceived barriers to seeking counseling services and their preferred characteristics of a helping professional. Several barriers to counseling were identified. Results suggest student athletes have strong preferences for counselor characteristics, including familiarity with sports, gender, and age. Practical applications of these findings are discussed.     

高师生自我专业发展意识量表的初步编制

目的:编制针对高师学生的自我专业发展意识量表.方法:在四所大学选取652名从大一到大四的高师生进行测量.对所编制的量表进行项目分析和信效度检验.结果:量表的内部一致性信度α系数为0.94,分半信度系数是0.91,因素分析显示量表的结构效度较好.结论:量表的信度和效度指标基本符合心理测量学的标准.