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Aspy, David N. – Journal of Humanistic Counseling, Education and Development, 2004
This article compares traditional science and the "new science of possibilities" for counseling based on humanistic principles. The information age impels counselors to shift to the new paradigm because the exponential increase of cultural change is generating a climate in which control-oriented procedures are inconsistent with events and…
Descriptors: Nondirective Counseling, Psychotherapy, Empathy, Counseling Techniques
Comstock, Dana L.; Duffey, Thelma; St. George, Holly – Journal for Specialists in Group Work, 2002
The relational-cultural model of psychotherapy has been evolving for the past 20 years. Within this model, difficult group dynamics are conceptualized as the playing out of the central relational paradox. This paradox recognizes that an individual may yearn for connection but, out of a sense of fear, simultaneously employ strategies that restrict…
Descriptors: Psychotherapy, Empathy, Group Dynamics, Clinical Psychology