Chapter 24-The Use of Technology in Counselor Education and Supervision

Question 1

How can certain technology applications support student learning?

Answer 1

1. Extend students’ knowledge of self

2. encourage the dialogue, or the negotiated understanding of constructivist understanding

Question 2

What are examples where counselors are needing to use more technology in the field?

Answer 2

1. managed care companies
2. schools
3. online career assessment and scoring

Question 3

What is emerging in counseling to demonstrate a greater use and need for technology?

Answer 3

1. Journal of Technology in Counseling

2. Ethical guidelines for the use of technology in counseling by professional associations (ACA, NBCC)

Question 4

What can technology enhance in the field of counseling?

Answer 4

1. case studies
2. real-world learning situations,
3. reflective practice
4. inclusion and appreciation of multiple perspectives
5. instructors-as-coaches and supervisors-as-guides

Question 5

How do electronic discussion boards and blogs help in counselor education?

Answer 5

Help instructors and supervisors instigate students’ ongoing reflections about their learning

Question 6

How does PowerPoint help in classroom presentations?

Answer 6

1. Encourage students to make own connections and construct own understanding of visual and aural stimuli
2. Generate insightful discussions
3. serve as a jumping-off point for students to take concepts, talk about them, and begin to make them their own

Question 7

Student response systems have many uses, such as:

Answer 7

1. help instructors find out what students know prior to a discussion or course reading
2. gauge students’ learning
3. discover whether students have actually done the reading or assignments.
4. test assumptions

Question 8

Technology in supervision practice has what three types?

Answer 8

1. Face-to-face supervision using technology
2. Remote supervision (cyber-supervision or e-supervision)
3. Live supervision

Question 9

What types of technology can be used in live supervision?

Answer 9

1. Telephone
2. Bug in the ear
3. Bug in the eye-read the feedback from a computer screen over the shoulder of the client

Question 10

The reading discusses an example of the bug-in-the ear approach with Ann, who had issues getting a group to go deeper. Her growth was facilitated by the supervisor’s what three interventions?

Answer 10

(1) a pre-group reminder
(2) a here-and-now prompt
(3) an acknowledgment of growth

Question 11

How is the influence of technology in supervision bidirectional?

Answer 11

Technology enhances supervision, and supervision goals dictate the technology that is used.

Question 12

How does technology help counselor educators be the “midwife teachers?”

Answer 12

Midwife supervisors facilitate the birth of ideas and support the counselor’s growth and development throughout the learning process.