Lisa D. Hawley

The Professional Identity of Counselor Educators

ABSTRACT A national survey of 70 counselor educators was conducted to examine the professional identity of counselor educators. Academic degrees, professional association membership, theoretical orientation, types of courses taught, scholarship, scope of service activities, career choice, and self-identification were among the factors explored relating to professional identity development among counselor educators. Demographic data such as the college or school in which counseling programs are housed and the percentage of faculty self-identified as counselors within counseling programs or departments was also explored. The results of the study and implications for the professional identity of the counseling field are discussed.

Use of the Reflecting Team Process in the Training of Group Workers.

Group work trainees have benefited from experiential instructional methods that allow them to participate in actual group experiences. The reflecting team process can serve as one such instructional method. It provides an experiential component that allows group work students to participate in actual group experiences, with particular focus on group process. This article describes two methods for the use of reflecting teams in the training of group workers. The authors explain the procedures they followed in the application of reflecting teams to group work training and discuss their observations of and recommendations for the use of such teams.

Interactive Process Notes: An Innovative Tool in Counseling Groups.

The purpose of this study is to begin to explore the use of interactive process notes in a womens counseling group. The use of interactive process notes is a new technique, which consists of weekly written input regarding group member and group counselor feedback. This preliminary study describes the use of interactive process notes results in a 14-week womens counseling group. This qualitative inquiry yielded five group member categories, including: (a) stage formation, (b) monitoring participation, (c) therapeutic factors, (d) psychological insight, and (e) boundaries; and four group counselor categories: (a) directives, (b) affirming, (c) psychoeducation, and (d) monitoring interaction.

Therapeutic Approaches with Immigrant Families

The section on immigrantfamiliesfocuses on the issues concerning their therapeutic concerns as they make the transition from their homeland to the United States. Selected research and strategies are presented to assist the therapist to begin to review the literature and provide practical interventions to work with immigrant families.