Occupational Stress Within the Counseling Profession: Implications for Counselor Training

Counselors with higher levels of perceived occupational stress report significantly greater personal strain and less coping resources than do counselors perceiving lower levels of occupational stress.     

The Cruel Optimism of Transformative Environmental Education

The article is a reflection on the author's experience teaching a Master's seminar in Philosophical Debates in Environmental Education. It frames the attachment to transformative environmental education as a form of cruel optimism, in the sense proposed by Lauren Berlant. Instead of continuing to foster an optimistic attachment to environmental education as a site where transformation may occur, but often does not, the article proposes an aporetic environmental education, which does not seek to get environmental education ‘right’, but rather experiments with different ways of thinking and living the impasse in which it finds itself.     

Distance and Defamiliarisation: Translation as Philosophical Method

In this article I posit translation as philosophical operation that disrupts commonsense meaning and understanding. By defamiliarising language, translation can arrest thinking about a text in a way that assumes the language is understood. In recent work I have grappled with the phrase 'ways of knowing', which, for linguistic and conceptual reasons, confuses discussions about epistemological diversity. I here expand this inquiry by considering languages in which more than one equivalent exists for the English verb 'to know'. French, for example, has both savoir and connaître , and German has wissen and kennen . This interlinguistic translation thus allows for a reconsideration of the inquiry into the phrase 'ways of knowing': do problems arise with 'ways of knowing-in-the sense-of connaître ', or with 'ways of knowing-in-the-sense-of savoir ', or both? Displacement is, more generally speaking, a method used by philosophers. Shifting the concept or phenomenon under consideration into a different context or discursive register allows one to defamiliarise it and see it in terms of something else. Through translation, whether interlinguistic or interdiscursive, philosophers ask what questions and understandings become possible when we see A in terms of B.     

Implications of Self-Monitoring Theory for Counseling Supervision

The author reviews literature on self-monitoring and discusses its implications for counseling relationships, as well as issues germane to the supervision of high and low self-monitoring counselors.     

Interdisciplinary PPS Training Team

A cooperative student-intern program, referred to as the Pupil Personnel Services Team, has been implemented by North Carolina State University in cooperation with the Wake County public school system. The roots of the team concept originated in North Carolina State's Departments of Counselor Education, Psychology, and Teacher Education from the School of Education. The social-work program is included from the School of Humanities and Social Sciences.     

Running a TEMPUS Project: First Experiences

This paper describes the experiences gathered at Aachen University's computer science department while running one of the first TEMPUS projects. An outline of the historical background is followed by a brief introduction to the TEMPUS programme as such. The aims and goals of our project, BASCULE, are then described in more detail. Finally, we discuss the lessons we have learned.