Benefits of Required Counseling for Counseling Students

Graduate students experience mental health distress. The authors investigated the benefits of required counseling services at a training clinic for students enrolled in counseling courses. Results indicated that after receiving services, students (N = 55) reported decreases in overall problems, depressive symptoms, and anxiety symptoms. Implications for counselor educators are discussed.     

Factors for Personal Counseling Among Counseling Trainees

The present study explored the use of counseling among counselor trainees and the characteristics of consumers and nonconsumers. Approximately 61% of those surveyed (n = 85) reported that they had received counseling, with the majority being mental health counseling trainees. Nonconsumers (n = 54) indicated that they coped with problems in other ways but would consider counseling if they experienced trauma.     

慢性下背痛的姿势控制和运动疗法

慢性下背痛极为常见.控制身体姿势、减轻局部张力以及进行有氧运动、肌力训练和柔韧练习等运动疗法对慢性下背痛具有良好疗效.     

Counseling Made Transparent: Pedagogy for a Counseling Theories Course

The authors describe an innovative practice in classroom pedagogy for teaching counseling theories. In an attempt to make the counseling process “transparent” for students, instructors demonstrated clinical thinking using monologue and dialogue during role plays conducted in class. Support for this approach is offered, and feedback from students in the course is presented.     

心理咨询的新路径:体态控制方法

体态控制的方法能够改善来访者的情绪状态。友善、适应的表情与体态有利于提升自己的身体意向,获得更多人际好评,增进心理健康。把其引入传统的心理咨询与治疗领域中,必须遵循以下原则:无害与环保的绿色进入方式、和谐共生与错位发展的目标定位、尊重来访者自主性与巧控制相结合、全人理念与弹性应对相结合。     

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.     

心理咨询的神经科学基础

心脑关系一直是心理学和神经科学研究领域关注的焦点.来自动物学、创伤神经心理学的多项研究表明,心理活动的改变也会积极地改变神经生理活动甚至结构,这给了心理咨询深层的支持和启示.心理咨询与药物治疗有许多相近的生理机制;心理咨询作为一个帮助个体学习的过程,有着从结构上永久性重新连接神经环路的可能.神经科学技术的引入,不但可进一步证实和解释心理咨询的功效,而且将从更科学的高度指导心理咨询的实施.     

Ethical Guidelines for Counseling Supervisors

The following Ethical Guidelines for Counseling Supervisors were adopted by the Association for Counselor Education and Supervision (ACES) Governing Council in March of 1993. The guidelines were written by a subcommittee of the ACES Supervision Interest Group, which comprised the following members: Gordon Hart, Chair; L. DiAnne Borders; Don Nance; and Louis Paradise. The guidelines first appeared in ACES Spectrum, Volume 53, Number 4, Summer, 1993.     

College Counseling and Student Retention: Research Findings and Implications for Counseling Centers

College counseling centers may come under increasing scrutiny by administrators regarding how their services contribute to student retention. College counselors can use data to demonstrate a positive influence of counseling on retention, but they also need to educate administrators that student retention should be a consideration among many when evaluating the efficacy of services. The author reviews findings from studies on the impact of college counseling on retention and addresses implications for counseling centers.     

A Developmental Framework for Counseling Supervision

Four models of supervision—counseling/therapeutic, teaching, consulting, and self-supervising—have been identified, but no one model adequately describes the total supervision process. The authors propose a comprehensive developmental framework that incorporates the four supervision models. The framework reflects the changes that occur during supervision and offers the supervisor and the trainee a means of conceptualizing the developmental stages of supervision. Professionalization occurs during supervision as the trainee assumes greater responsibility for the content of supervision and learns how to be a self-supervisor.     

Counseling Self-Efficacy and Counseling Competence in Prepracticum Training

Counseling self-efficacy and counseling skills were examined over time in a graduate prepracticum class. Efficacy increased with training, but its relationship to performance of skills was weak.     

Factors in Students' Endorsement of Counseling as a Requirement for Graduation from a Counseling Program

This study investigated factors involved in students' endorsement of personal counseling as a requirement for graduation from a counseling program. Implications for counselor educators are discussed.     

Benefits of Brief Counseling Training for Master's‐Level Trainees in University Counseling Centers

Little has been addressed in the literature about the advantages of brief counseling training for master's‐level trainees working in university counseling centers. This article discusses the benefits that time‐limited treatment affords trainees and offers implications for training and research.     

Counseling Freshmen

Abstract

Course evaluations are used by many institutions in promotion, tenure, and merit decisions. This article discusses the influences on those evaluations and how faculty can combat those biases to ensure accurate portrayal of their teaching effectiveness. Alternative evaluation methods are reviewed, including portfolios, peer feedback sessions, and informal student surveying.