In this article, the importance of clinical supervision for school counselors is examined in terms of prior literature and the school counseling context. Standards relative to supervision are presented, followed by an overview of each article in the special section of the Counselor

The incidence and effect of sexual intimacy in graduate education reported by randomly selected female Association for Counselor Education and Supervision members are analyzed. Discussion includes implications for counselor educators and supervisors.The issue of sexual intimacy between faculty members and their students has been of interest to a variety of helping professionals for more than a decade. It has been suggested that counselor educators need to address the effect on students of sexually oriented interactions (Anonymous, 1990). To date, however, there is no study of actual incidence of these relationships with the use of a national sample of counselor educators and supervisors.More than 10 years ago, Roberts, Murrell, Thomas, and Claxton (1982) examined ethical issues related to student-faculty relationships, through a survey of 60 counselor educators working in training programs located in the Southern region of the Association for Counselor Education and Supervision (SACES). Whereas 21 % of their sample indicated that close relationships with students would constitute unethical behavior under any circumstances, 7% believed one could have noncoerced sexual relations with students enrolled in their programs and still act in an ethical manner. These researchers reported that the majority of respondents (73%) viewed nonsexual relationships with students, but not sexual relationships, as ethical. They did not collect data on the actual incidence of sexual intimacy their sample experienced as students.Several retrospective studies of psychologists examined the incidence of sexual intimacy participants experienced as students Gary M. Miller and Marva J. Larrabee are associate professors in the CoUege of Education.

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The authors summarize the special section in the journal of Counselor Education and Supervision (Vol. 45, No. 4, June 2006) on school counseling supervision and present implications to guide the practice of school counselor supervision. The implications for practice, training, research, and professional standards for school counselors are discussed.

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