Ethical Concerns for Counselor Educators

This article identifies four areas of ethical concern in counselor education. Counselor educators in the Southern Association for Counselor Education and Supervision (SACES) region were surveyed regarding their attitudes and practices concerning these four areas. Survey results with conclusions and recommendations are given. Vignette 1: J. Jones, a single counselor education professor, is told by K. Adams, a single female graduate student in one of his classes, that she finds him very attractive. She then invites him to her home for dinner. Vignette 2: J. Smith, a student and advisee of counselor educator M. Thompson, is taking a group dynamics course from her this semester. He believes that participation in the course has triggered his desire to work on some issues in his personal life. He approaches Dr. Thompson to be his counselor. Vignette 3: Counselor educator F. Rogers suggests an idea for a research study to graduate student P. Collins. Ms. Collins carries out the study and submits a paper describing it in order to meet a requirement in Dr. Rogers's class. Dr. Rogers later decides that with some revision this paper could be publishable. He spends many hours revising the paper so that it is suitable for publication. When he submits it, he lists himself as first author. Vignette 4: Counselor educator A. Johnson is serving on C. Young's dissertation committee. Ms. Young, who is a training director at a major business in the community, offers Dr. Johnson a lucrative consulting contract with her company.     

Hope, Confidence and Democracy

ABSTRACT Social hope, shared hope which relates to the future of communities, is distinguished from personal hopes. Democrats, it is claimed, cannot entertain the kind of social hope found in the Marxist and Christian traditions. However, they do need hope in democracy. Social hope depends on the closely related value of social confidence. Therefore democrats need confidence in democratic values to support their democratic hopes. In school social confidence in democratic values can be promoted by the process of framing whole school policies, as well as by the policies themselves.     

Myths of Supervision: Identifying the Gaps Between Theory and Practice

Seven myths about counselor supervisor roles and activities are identified. These include myths about theory, roles, process, and professional issues. Suggestions are given for improving the congruence between supervision literature and actual practice.     

Evaluation of Staff Development Methods for Measuring Client Products

This article reports the results of a study seeking to: (a) develop, validate, and implement in-service methods designed to teach program development and evaluation based on measured client products to guidance personnel; (b) determine which in-service methods were most effective; and (c) evaluate the attitudes of guidance personnel toward accountability and program evaluation based on measured client products.     

Development of Listening Skills in Students in Special Education Settings

Children in special education settings often lack appropriate listening skills. Two programs identified with developing listening skills, a music program and a storytelling program, were implemented by teachers with students in special education settings over a 30 week intervention period. A battery of tests measuring different aspects of listening such as receptive vocabulary, phonological processing, and listening comprehension, was administered to the students prior to the intervention period, at the end of the intervention period and again several weeks later. The results from the tests indicated that participation by the students in these programs had a positive effect on the development of their listening skills. The effects of the music and story‐telling programs were not apparent until the postpost‐pretest period suggesting that a longer time‐period is required for a statistically significant music effect or story effect on the listening skills of students in special education settings to show.     

Out of Harm's Way: Enhancing Monitoring and Dismissal Processes in Counselor Education Programs

This article addresses student counselor impairment related to the potential for harm to clients. Concrete suggestions are given for enhancing monitoring and dismissal processes in counselor training programs.     

Understanding the dynamics between preterm infants and their families

The high‐tech environment of the Special Care Baby Unit (SCBU) may seem a million miles away from the classroom, but the baby who has been born prematurely, wired up in an incubator in the former, will in five years' time be a learner in the other. The journeys through our education system of children who have survived premature birth to become learners are causing teachers, psychologists, therapists and carers to explore innovative learning pathways, new psychological and therapeutic interventions, and creative care approaches to meet their needs. While much is known about the serious physical and sensory problems of preterm babies, less is known about their psychological, educational and socio‐emotional difficulties. This article attempts to identify key targets for holistic intervention with families of premature infants. An approach used at the Champion Early Intervention Centre (Burwood Hospital, Christchurch, New Zealand) is described, from which practitioners of school‐aged children can draw teaching and learning implications.     

Supervisee Empowerment: Does Gender Make a Difference?

This study used a content analysis of audiotapes of clinical supervisory sessions to examine the effect of supervisee gender on the influence strategies used in the counseling clinical supervisory dyad.     

Curriculum Guide for Training Counseling Supervisors: Rationale,Development, and Implementation

A standardized curriculum that can be applied to a variety of supervisor training programs is presented. Suggestions for implementation and research are included.