The authors examine how counselor educators can become involved in professional development schools to create enhanced training opportunities for school counseling internship students. The benefits of collaboration between university and public school faculties are explored, and research opportunities are discussed. Counselor educators' expertise in research and program evaluation, combined with school counselors' pragmatic experience in dealing with real‐life issues, may promote best practices in the schools and improved training for school counselors and can set the stage for collaboration as an educational team at the preservice level.

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WRC types, indicating that age is related to less confusion and reliance on others about racial issues. A positive relationship between social marginalization and the WRC Reactive type (reflecting a greater understanding that racism maintains white privilege) suggests that women, gays, and lesbians may have a deeper understanding of racism through their own experiences as minorities. The respondents who reported higher levels of multicultural educational opportunities, more discussions of multicultural issues with supervisors, and more experience implementing multicultural programs were also more willing to explore racial issues, possess positive attitudes toward people of color, and express greater clarity in their racial attitudes. Finally, the respondents who reported higher Dependent and Dissonant attitudes scored lower in the need for social approval. (53 ref) -Department of Student Afsairs in Higher Education, Indiana University of Pennsylvania.A work sample exercise, consisting of email in-box dilemmas, is proposed for use when interviewing student personnel administrators for distance learning programs. The emails pose hypothetical dilemmas involving mediating between learners and faculty members, advising students about departmental requirements, and helping students to understand and navigate the university system. Applicants are asked to rank the dilemmas in order of importance and explain how they would respond to the dilemmas. Members of the interview panel would then rate the applicant's performance. (20 ref)-Associate Professor of Educational Leadership and Counseling, Darden College of Education, Old Dominion University. 0539-39lGMT

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This article focuses on how counselors can help parents understand that parenting styles influence children's behavior and offers ideas for humanistic parenting to elicit socially desirable outcomes behavior in children. In addition, the article presents strategies that parents can use to increase the likelihood that young children will develop prosocial behavior and learn to respond to others with caring and concern.