Systematic Training in Client Documentation: Strategies for Counselor Educators

Specific teaching strategies are identified that counselor educators can infuse into existing course work to provide a more systematized approach to training in client documentation.     

Computer-Assisted Training of the DSM-III-R in Counselor Education

This article reviews various computer programs that can be used as part of a comprehensive curriculum to train counselors on how to better understand and use the Diagnostic Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-III-R; American Psychiatric Association, 1987).     

Mixed Ability English

This article attempts to lay out the principles which direct some of our present practice in teaching mixed ability classes in English in years 1–4.* Some of it refers to things we are developing rather than comprehensively 'doing'†; much of it will be seen to be unoriginal and/or vague, but it does have the merit of being roughly quarried from our own experience.     

Qualifications Frameworks: some conceptual issues

The aim of this article is to contribute to realising the progressive and democratic opportunities that National Qualifications Frameworks (NQFs) can offer. In doing so it will be critical of many of the ways that NQFs have been interpreted to date and the claims that have been made for them. The article has six sections. Section 1 considers some of the reasons for the recent growth of interest in NQFs. Section 2 is concerned with the widely shared goals of NQFs and some of the contradictions and problems that they involve. Section 3 discusses the very different forms that NQFs can take. Section 4 examines a number of issues that underlie all approaches to qualifications but are made more explicit by qualification frameworks and concludes by questioning the much lauded claim that NQFs can promote and accredit informal learning. The concluding section considers the longer term implications for the future of NQFs of the earlier analysis.