NDEA INSTITUTE PARTICIPANTS <i>TWO YEARS LATER</i>

Munger, Paul F.; Brown, Darine F.; Needham, John T.

doi:10.1002/j.2164-4918.1964.tb04525.x

The Personnel and Guidance Journal

1964

DOI: 10.1002/j.2164-4918.1964.tb04525.x

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NDEA INSTITUTE PARTICIPANTS TWO YEARS LATER

Paul F. Munger

Darine F. Brown

John T. Needham

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“…Trainers of counseling practitioners have frequently lamented the fact that many graduates of counselor education programs accept administrative or other types of noncounseling positions (Munger, Brown & Needham 1964;StefHre 1964;Smallenburg 1968). Furthermore, it appears that many persons who accept counseling positions actually spend the bulk of their professional time in noncounseling activities (Patterson 1967).…”

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Counselor Personality Needs as a Determinant of Functional Specialty Preference

Randolph¹

1973

Couns Edu & Supervision

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The objective of this study was to determine whether personality needs discriminate between counselor trainees who prefer the administrator specialty and those who prefer the practitioner functional specialty. Doctoral students in counselor education at 20 southern universities were asked to complete a three‐item questionnaire designed to determine functional specialty preference. Sixty‐two subjects who indicated a preference for the administrator functional specialty and 63 subjects who chose the practitioner functional specialty completed the Personality Research Form (PRF). Stepwise discriminant analysis was used to determine the efficacy of PRF variables in discriminating between the administrator and practitioner groups. The results suggest that the PRF may have value as a tool in the selection of counselors.

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Counselor Personality Needs as a Determinant of Functional Specialty Preference

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1973

Couns Edu & Supervision

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“…The present study paralleled to some degree the study by Munger et al (1964), but examined postinstitute reactions and activities after a ten-year postinstitute period. The purposes of the present study were to examine (a) postinstitute opinions about the degree to which the objectives of the Institute were achieved, (b) postinstitute feelings about the experiences and long-term value of the Institute, and (c) postinstitute activities, success ratings in their respective jobs, and their current professional and educational aspirations.…”

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NDEA Participants Prepared for Inner‐City Counseling: A Ten‐Year Follow‐Up

Walton

1980

Couns Edu & Supervision

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This article presents a ten-year follow-up of 22 former participants in a National Defense Education Act (NDEA) inner-city counseling and guidance institute. The study reveals that 13 respondents have served as counselors in inner-city secondary schools for an average of 7.6 postinstitute years, and several are currently functioning in positions other than that of a counselor. A majority of respondents however, seem to be involved in work activity related to counseling. Most felt that the objectives of the NDEA institute were achieved, and most revealed a positive view of the Institute's activities and curriculum after 10 years.The National Defense Education Act (NDEA) of 1958 spawned the development of many NDEA Guidance and Counseling Institutes at vanous institutions throughout the nation. These funded projects had vanous focuses, but were generally aimed at improving the educational experiences of prospective and/or in-service counselors. Follow-up studies of such institutes have usually sought to examine postinstitute attitudes and values of former institute participants on the basis of various standardized instruments (Bernos, 1966; Munger, Myers, & Brown, 1963; Munger 8c Johnson, 1960;Rochester, 1967;Rochester & Cottingham, 1969;and Rochester & Hopke, 1969). Such studies have also been relatively short-term, as they were usually one, two, or three-year postinstitute studies.A two-year postinstitute study by Munger, Brown, & Needham (1964) departed from the above pattern of studies by examining the degree to which former institute participants were using their counseling preparation. The study revealed that 20 of the 24 respondents were secondary-school counselors and that 20 had also earned the master's degree. The former participants seemed to value the practicum as the most meaningful Institute experience. Concurrently they indicated that "the cooperativeness and permissiveness of the Institute created a climate that enabled them to realize desired personal goals during the training period" (Munger et al., 1964, p. 990 50 COUNSELOR EDUCATION AND SUPERVISION

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“…These, and similar evaluative studies, suffer from one or both of two weaknesses. Either they lack sufficient follow-up study to demonstrate the degree of persistence of attitude changes found at the end of the institute, or, as in the case of the Munger, et al (1964) study, they lack validating data to support participants' favorable responses to their institute experience.The present study was designed to determine participant's subjective responses to their institute experience and to determine changes in attitudes of participants, as well as to assess the degree of persistence of these attitude changes over a follow-up period. …”

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Effectiveness of a Three‐week Institute for Employment Service Counselors

Harren

Friedman

1968

Journal of Employment Couns

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Forty-three employment service counselors participated in a three-week institute designed to improve their understanding of the conditions of poverty and of counseling theory and techniques. At the end of the institute, participants evaluated their experence favorably with substantial minority group criticisms, however, that (1) institute faculty were not sufficiently informed about Employment Service techniques and experiences and, that (2) not enough counseling practicum experiences were provided. Significant shifts in attitudes toward the poor were found at the end of the institute for 14 of 35 items of an attitude scale. For 6 of these 14 items, shifts in attitude were in the same direction and intensified after four and one-half months of field experience.Educators frequently recognize a need to evaluate the impact of instructional programs and do so both informally 2nd formally. Specially developed programs of instruction for a specific population and of short duration, such as institutes or workshops, are even more suspect and subjected to scrutiny than the regular instructional program.Demos and Zuwaylif (1963) studied changes in attitudes following a sixweek training program in counseling. They found that counselors changed from being evaluative, supportive, and probing to more understanding and interpretive. Similarly, Jones (1963) found changes from informing and advising to accepting and understanding and from focus on the immediate problem to consideration of the total setting of the counselee. Webb and Harris (1963), using the semantic differential techniques, found differences between the actual self and ideal self, with the evaluative factor being most sensitive to change. Moreover, in all three of these studies, institute participants reported generally favorable reactions to their institute program. One study (Munger, et al., 1964) demonstrated the persistence over a two year period of these favorable responses toward institute experience. These, and similar evaluative studies, suffer from one or both of two weaknesses. Either they lack sufficient follow-up study to demonstrate the degree of persistence of attitude changes found at the end of the institute, or, as in the case of the Munger, et al. (1964) study, they lack validating data to support participants' favorable responses to their institute experience.The present study was designed to determine participant's subjective responses to their institute experience and to determine changes in attitudes of participants, as well as to assess the degree of persistence of these attitude changes over a follow-up period.

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NDEA INSTITUTE PARTICIPANTS TWO YEARS LATER

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Counselor Personality Needs as a Determinant of Functional Specialty Preference

Counselor Personality Needs as a Determinant of Functional Specialty Preference

NDEA Participants Prepared for Inner‐City Counseling: A Ten‐Year Follow‐Up

Effectiveness of a Three‐week Institute for Employment Service Counselors

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