The exact number in any given year is not fully known, but at Columbia, approximately 3,200 students seek counseling at Counseling and Psychological Services (CPS) [2]. In addition, there are probably also a number of students seeking counseling services elsewhere. This represents an increase over numbers in the 90s which may be due to a decrease in the social stigma of seeking mental health se...

We evaluated self-perception of seizure precipitants in 149 adult subjects with epilepsy: 71% of the subjects reported at least one factor that, according to the perception, increased the risk of suffering from a seizure. The subjects most often reported psychological stress, change of weather and sleep deprivation. Among the disease-related factors, seizure frequency and the state of conscious...

The importance of extensive, high-quality counseling supervision has become increasingly recognized as critical to learning, maintaining, and improving professional counseling skills (Bernard & Goodyear, 1992). Yet, for many professional counselors, the availability of regular counseling supervision by a qualified supervisor is very limited or frequently nonexistent. Even counselors who receive...

Traditionally, human services counseling (HSC) training programs have relied upon face-to-face interactions, including such methods as simulated counseling sessions and live supervision, to teach interpersonal and clinical skills. Concerns about the ability of online media to facilitate the interpersonal interaction needed to teach discipline-specific skills has delayed adoption of online learn...

Counseling parents in supporting their children’s learning processes is increasingly emphasized in research on parental involvement and teacher professionalization as a central task of teachers. However, to date there have been few approaches of developing theoretical or psychometric models that describe the internal structure of teachers’ counseling competence in terms of specific skills and a...

OBJECTIVES To estimate the impact of Rx for Change, an 8-h tobacco cessation training program on pharmacy students' perceived counseling skills, confidence for counseling, and future counseling of patients for tobacco cessation. METHODS Unlinked, pre- and post-training surveys were administered to 142 pharmacy students enrolled at Texas Southern University, a primarily minority and historical...