School Counseling Site Supervisor Training: An Exploratory Study

This study explored the supervision training needs of site supervisors of master’s program school counseling interns via the construct of selfefficacy. Using the Site Supervisor Self-Efficacy Survey developed for this study, the authors surveyed school counseling site supervisors in the states of Oregon and Washington (N = 147) regarding their hours of supervision training and their supervisor self-efficacy. Results indicated that 54% of school counseling site supervisors had little or no counseling supervision training. Supervisor self-efficacy appeared to be relatively strong, consistently so for school counseling site supervisors with over 40 hours of supervision training. A partial correlation indicated a slightly positive relationship between the hours of supervision training received and perceived self-efficacy regarding supervision. Implications regarding school counseling site supervisor training and future research are offered

Advancing Counselor Education: Fostering International Perspectives and Open Access Scholarship

Professional counselors and counselor educators have been active in the global mental health movement. This article overviews the history and growth of counselor education internationally and provides a rationale for establishing an open access, peer-reviewed, online journal that fosters international counselor education and supervision

From Opera to Real Democracy: Popular Constitutionalism and Web 2.0

On March 17, 2011 the conductor Riccardo Muti stood in the orchestra pit at the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma and, in the presence of the Italian Prime Minister, Silvio Berlusconi, and the Italian President, Giorgio Napolitano, denounced the Italian government’s cuts to funding for the arts and culture. He then invited the entire audience to join the opera’s chorus in an encore of Va’ Pensiero, the hymn of the Hebrew slaves in Nabucco, to protest the cuts. Within two days of the sing-a-long, the Italian government reversed the course it set more than ten months before and agreed to a tax that would be used to restore funds to the arts and culture budget. This article traces how and why these acts of protest in Italy developed, succeeded, and then were appropriated by transnational activists interested in encouraging popular constitutionalism. Because the entire process made considerable use of Facebook, blogs, YouTube, and Twitter, this case study simultaneously explores how a popular protest became a successful expression of popular constitutionalism, and considers how the messages of that protest evolved across a transnational public sphere that encompassed Web 2.0

Explaining Showering: a Discussion of the Material, Conventional, and Temporal Dimensions of Practice

This article considers the increasing popularity of showering in the UK. We use this case as a means of exploring some of the dimensions and dynamics of everyday practice. Drawing upon a range of documentary evidence, we begin by sketching three possible explanations for the current constitution of showering as a private, increasingly resource-intensive routine. We begin by reviewing the changing infrastructural, technological, rhetorical and moral positioning of showering. We then consider how the multiple and contingent constituents of showering are arranged and re-arranged in and through the practice itself. In taking this approach, we address a number of more abstract questions about the relation between practices, technologies and infrastructures and about what these relationships mean for the fixity and fluidity of ordinary routines and for associated patterns of consumption. The result is a method that allows us to analyze the ways in which material cultures and conventions are reproduced and transformed. This has practical implications for those seeking to contain the environmental consequences of resource-intensive practices.Xx

A Different Sort of Justice: The Informal Courts of Public Opinion in Antebellum South Carolina

Studies of nineteenth century legal history assume that the antebellum South, and antebellum South Carolina in particular, had a legal culture shaped by honor culture and marked by the hierarchical assumptions and extralegal violence that honor culture engendered. In this article, I offer a modification of that well-established account. While I do not question the influence of honor on South Carolina\u27s antebellum legal culture, I suggest that the state had a second, shame-based system of popular justice, in which women played a prominent role. As was the case with honor culture, this second form of extralegal justice, which I have dubbed the informal courts of public opinion, sometimes intersected with formal law, and other times worked independent of it

Death or Transformation? Educational Autonomy in the Roberts Court

In the aftermath of the Supreme Court\u27s decisions in Grutter and Gratz a number of commentators argued that the Court had begun to embrace a new constitutional doctrine that required deference to the decisions of some institutions. Most notably they asserted that the Court would defer within the field of education. But even as they suggested that the Court was more willing to explore the doctrine, those two opinions left several large questions unanswered: Did the Court\u27s embrace of institutional autonomy extend beyond higher education, into the K-12 realm? If so, what were its bounds? Was the doctrine only relevant to efforts to achieve a diverse student body or could it be extended further, to have an impact on claims of right under the First, or other, Amendments? Two cases from the Roberts Court\u27s October 2006 Term, Parents Involved v. Seattle School District and Morse v. Frederick, answered those questions. At first glance, the cases seem to indicate that a clear majority of the Court rejects the idea that educational autonomy should be extended to elementary and secondary schools. But in this article I argue that the Court\u27s response in those cases was more complicated: A narrow majority of the Court believes that the principle of educational autonomy articulated in Grutter may sometimes extend to cases involving K-12 schools. At the same time, a slightly different, but still narrow, majority believes that principles of educational autonomy cannot limit the First Amendment rights of K-12 students

A Different Sort of Justice: The Informal Courts of Public Opinion in Antebellum South Carolina

Studies of nineteenth century legal history assume that the antebellum South, and antebellum South Carolina in particular, had a legal culture shaped by honor culture and marked by the hierarchical assumptions and extralegal violence that honor culture engendered. In this article, I offer a modification of that well-established account. While I do not question the influence of honor on South Carolina\u27s antebellum legal culture, I suggest that the state had a second, shame-based system of popular justice, in which women played a prominent role. As was the case with honor culture, this second form of extralegal justice, which I have dubbed the informal courts of public opinion, sometimes intersected with formal law, and other times worked independent of it

Understanding the Cultural Utility of Mainstream Addiction Recovery Mutual Support Groups for Indigenous Peoples’: A Case Study of SMART Recovery through an Indigenous Australian Lens

Background: Mutual support groups are one of the world’s most commonly used forms of addiction recovery support. Participation has been associated with reduced substance use and abstinence. There is, however, limited empirical understanding of how suitable or beneficial group participation is for Indigenous peoples in similarly colonised countries (Australia, New Zealand, Canada, United States of America, Hawaii). This thesis aims to improve our understanding of the cultural utility of mainstream addiction recovery mutual support group programmes for Indigenous peoples. The SMART Recovery programme will be used as a case study with Indigenous Australia as a cultural milieu. Methods: This thesis presents findings from three published empirical studies. In Study 1: a PRISMA-informed systematic literature review was performed to determine the number, nature, and scope of internationally available evidence on Indigenous people’s experiences of and outcomes associated with attending mutual support groups. Study 2: used an Indigenous-lensed multi-methods research design to explore: 1) How Indigenous Australian facilitators (n=10) and group members (n=11) experience SMART Recovery and utilise it as a recovery resource; and 2) If the SMART Recovery programme components and operational process are culturally suitable and helpful. In Study 3: a three-round Delphi synthesised with Indigenous research methods was conducted to: 1) Obtain expert opinion on the cultural utility of the Indigenous SMART Recovery handbook; 2) Gain consensus on areas in the SMART Recovery programme that require cultural modification; and 3) Seek advice on how modifications could be implemented in future programme design and delivery. Results: Study 1 revealed a paucity of empirical knowledge on the acceptability and outcomes of addiction recovery mutual support groups for Indigenous peoples of Australia, New Zealand, Canada, United States of America and Hawaii. Study 2 offers first insights into how Indigenous peoples in Australia perceive and use SMART Recovery. Based on their experiences, a range of culturally informed programme modifications were suggested to enhance its cultural utility. Study 3 confirmed that cultural modifications are needed to enhance the cultural utility of SMART Recovery for Indigenous Australian contexts. An expert panel reached consensus on five key programme modifications and developed a set of strategies to help SMART Recovery integrate these into future programme planning and design. Study 2 and 3 also demonstrated the promise of two innovative research methodologies that could be used to involve Indigenous peoples in the design and evaluation of mainstream mutual support group programmes without added burden to personal, community and/or professional obligations. Conclusions: This thesis presents the first series of studies to investigate the cultural utility of mainstream mutual support groups for Indigenous peoples. Findings suggest that culturally appropriate language, culture-based programme activities and less rigid group delivery formats would enhance suitability and helpfulness of existing programmes as a recovery resource for Indigenous peoples. Thesis findings have implications for future planning and development of SMART Recovery and other mutual support groups like 12-steps programmes. There is an urgent need to extend this research to Indigenous peoples of New Zealand, Canada, United States of America, and Hawaii – whose perspectives are not yet documented in the peer-reviewed mutual support group literature

\u3ci\u3ePeople v. Coughlin\u3c/i\u3e and Criticisms of the Criminal Jury in Late Nineteenth-Century Chicago

The last decades of the nineteenth century and the first decades of the twentieth century are typically characterized as the era in which the criminal jury trial came to an end. Although criminal juries did not completely disappear, their role became smaller and smaller across that time frame. Most studies of this phenomenon attribute that decline to the rise of plea bargains in that same period. Specifically, these studies lead to the conclusion that institutional factors, such as case loads and the political pressure on elected prosecutors to be tough on crime, made plea bargains an increasingly attractive option for the State. They are based on the assumption that the rise of plea bargains caused the decline of criminal juries. Yet this explanation does not appear to fit the case of late nineteenth-, early twentieth-century Chicago. In that period the felony courts in Chicago, like felony courts in Los Angeles, Philadelphia, and Boston, did make increasing use of plea bargains and jury trials declined, as well. But the data suggests that the greater use of pleas did not lead to the decline of criminal juries, so much as result from efforts to avoid jury trials. To explore this possibility, this article begins with a review of studies of plea bargaining in the Chicago and Cook County felony courts. The data in that scholarship suggests that the desire to avoid trials prompted the resort to plea agreements. Then, to consider why that might be so, this article explores the contemporary views of criminal juries by unpacking a trial from late nineteenth-century Chicago, People v. Coughlin, and the various objections to the jury that arose at different moments in that trial. These objections, made by new accounts, judges, lawyers, legal scholars and political figures, reveal the full range of ambivalence about criminal juries in Chicago at the end of the nineteenth century. Yet as deep as that unhappiness was, Illinois law failed to respond to those concerns, in part because they were challenges to fundamental aspects of the Anglo-American common law tradition. That resistance to reform may have reflected an abiding commitment to the ideal of the jury, but it made plea agreements an attractive alternative