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A single-case research design was conducted to evaluate a reality therapy driven model of clinical supervision as an effective modality for increasing supervisee report of counseling skill use and counseling self-efficacy. Three white, female participant supervisees from the United States received reality therapy driven site supervision during part of a nine-week clinical field experience. The findings indicated that for two of the three participants, self-report of skills and self-efficacy significantly increased during the reality therapy driven supervision phase, while accounting for the supervisees’ predicted growth trend. The third participant did not have a significant change in self-report of skills or self-efficacy; however, all three participants evaluated the reality therapy driven supervision process positively, stating that the model promoted self-evaluation and accountability. The results indicate that reality therapy driven supervision may be an effective model for some supervisees. Discussion includes implications for supervision practice and future research.

Counseling researchers, who often work for institutions that place significant value on journal impact factor (JIF), are faced with the choice to publish their manuscripts in professional counseling journals or those of other professions that might have higher JIFs. Publication and journal impact factor data for 6 American Counseling Association journals and 58 American Psychological Association journals were examined. Although both groups compared on issues per year and rejection rates, counseling journals averaged fewer articles per year and lower average impact factor. Implications and recommendations for increasing impact of counseling research publications are discussed.

School counselors are tasked with many activities, including demonstrating the effectiveness of interventions they use with students. The American School Counselor Association recommends that school counselors include assessment, appraisal, and evaluation of delivery and program management in their school counseling program. Single-case research design is a data collection and analysis strategy that can assist school counselors with this task. We developed the Impact of Intervention tool to provide school counselors a tool to streamline the data collection process.