New Challenges for Co-operation with Developing Countries

Higher education has been improving over a few years in developing countries: engineering education institutions have been developed or created. The Ecole Nationale des Ponu et Chausshs is participating in this building of new institutions and is providing a few of them with its assistance. Two examples are given of the methods employed by Ecole Nationale des Pontr et Chaussées. In both cases assistance is aimed at reinforcing the counterpart's capacities: for the ENSTP in Ivory Coast, the objective is to create a national faculty staB for the ENIT in Tunisia, it is to develop continuing education.     

An Attributional Approach to Counselor Supervision

The supervision process is examined from an attributional perspective. Counselor supervision is conceptualized as an interactional process in which trainees learn to describe and manage cause-effect relationships. Attribution theory from the social psychological literature is reviewed, and common biases and errors in the attribution process are discussed in terms of their relationship to supervision. Finally, several interventions are proposed to help supervisors minimize the influence of these attributional biases on their own and their trainees' perceptions and behaviors.     

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.     

Multicultural Supervision: A Reaction to Leong and Wagner,Cook, Priest,and Fukuyama

A discussion of authors' contributions to the special section on cross-cultural supervision is presented. The specific issues of training versus supervision, definition of terms, broadening the implications of culture within supervision, developmental variables, and empirical verification are addressed.