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Counseling the Sexually Active Client in the 1990s: A Format for Preparing Mental Health Counselors.

Gray, Lizbeth A.; House, Reese M. – Journal of Mental Health Counseling, 1991
Presents training format that encourages mental health counselors to address their own comfort with sexuality and then offers specific concepts for working with sexually active clients. Presents five areas: counselor comfort with sexuality, sexuality assessment tools, societal values about sexuality, treatment approaches to clients' sexual issues,…
Descriptors: Client Characteristics (Human Services), Counselor Attitudes, Counselor Training, Mental Health
Hwang, Wei-Chin; Wood, Jeffrey J.; Lin, Keh-Ming; Cheung, Freda – Cognitive and Behavioral Practice, 2006
In this article, we discuss how to conduct cognitive-behavioral therapy with Chinese Americans. We present an integration of theory, research, and clinical practice to help mental health practitioners understand how Chinese culture may potentially influence the CBT treatment process for Chinese immigrants. Several recommendations are provided as…
Descriptors: Asian Culture, Psychotherapy, Chinese Americans, Immigrants
Castillo, Linda G.; Phoummarath, Marion J. – Journal of School Counseling, 2006
Asian American adolescents are frequently overlooked as a population in need of counseling interventions. However, cultural issues such as refugee status or the pressure of high academic achievement can influence an Asian American student's mental health. As there is a dearth of school counseling literature written about what school counselors…
Descriptors: Adolescents, School Counseling, School Counselors, Asian Americans
Lumadue, Christine A.; Munk, Melanie; Wooten, H. Ray – Journal of Creativity in Mental Health, 2005
Given a heightened focus within the mental health profession on creative, complementary, and alternative practices, the authors surveyed CACREP programs with respect to their inclusion of such approaches in counselor training. For the purpose of this study, these approaches were designated as complementary and alternative methods (CAM) and defined…
Descriptors: Mental Health, Counselor Training, Counseling Techniques, Therapy
Goodwin, Lloyd R., Jr.; Sias, Shari M. – Journal of Teaching in the Addictions, 2007
Students from a master's program in Substance Abuse and Clinical Counseling (SACC) at a midsize southeastern university were surveyed to determine personal characteristics and career goals. Sixty-two of the 68 students currently enrolled in the program volunteered to anonymously complete the questionnaire. The typical profile of the SACC student…
Descriptors: Human Services, Age, Substance Abuse, Prevention
Milling, Len; Kirsch, Irving – 1983
Current theoretical approaches to understanding emotional difficulties are dominated by the medical model of mental illness, which assumes that emotional dysfunction can be viewed the same way as physical dysfunction. To examine the relationship between psychotherapy clients' beliefs about the medical model of psychotherapy and their behavior…
Descriptors: College Students, Expectation, Higher Education, Mental Health

Butcher, Elizabeth; And Others – American Mental Health Counselors Association Journal, 1985
Used a standardized simulation to identify problem-solving styles in mental health treatment planning tasks. Experienced counselors (N=34) and trainees (N=34) examined case files and wrote summaries and treatment plans for each case. Results showed problem-solving similarities for the outpatient case but differences for the inpatient case. (BH)
Descriptors: Clinical Diagnosis, Counselor Evaluation, Counselor Training, Mental Health

Turnbull, Reginald; Holcomb, William R. – Administration in Mental Health, 1985
Factor analysis of 556 responses to survey of mental health workers distinguished four factors involved in workers' attitudes about their performance ratings: objective validity, negative emotional response, supervisory direction, and incentives. Results showed that state workers did not view their present performance ratings, based on worker…
Descriptors: Employee Attitudes, Job Performance, Mental Health Programs, Personnel Evaluation

Remer, Rory – School Psychology Review, 1984
Seven topic areas which may be variously combined to comprise a workshop in personal stress reduction are outlined. They include definitions and types of stress, life style planning, nutrition, exercise, networking/social support system, relaxation and other trophotropic interventions, and communication skills. Suggestions are included for…
Descriptors: Guides, Inservice Education, Mental Health, School Psychologists

Hurh, Won Moo; Kim, Kwang Chung – International Migration Review, 1990
A study of 334 Korean male immigrants in the Chicago area reveals that their mental well-being is likely to increase with length of residency and that the most significant variable is occupational satisfaction. (DM)
Descriptors: Acculturation, Immigrants, Interviews, Korean Americans

Romig, Charles A.; Gruenke, Carol – Journal of Counseling and Development, 1991
Provides an overview of prison inmate resistance to mental health counseling and describes ways that indirect, metaphorical communication can be used to establish rapport with this client population. Establishing rapport is difficult because of the suspicion that inmate clients have toward mental health professionals and the correctional system…
Descriptors: Counseling Techniques, Counselor Client Relationship, Mental Health, Metaphors
Degges-White, Suzanne E.; Myers, Jane E. – Journal of Humanistic Counseling, Education and Development, 2005
An interview protocol based on V. Cass's (1979) sexual identity formation work was used with 13 self-identified lesbians. Data analysis yielded a sexual identity formation model similar to J. E. Marcia's (1966, 1987) identity development model. Potential emotional and physical health risks for each phase of the model are discussed, and…
Descriptors: Physical Health, Data Analysis, Homosexuality, Sexual Identity
Wihak, Christine; Merali, Noorfarah – Canadian Journal of Education, 2007
Eight non-Aboriginal school counselors, who temporarily lived in Nunavut to provide services to Inuit clients, were interviewed regarding changes in their sense of self and their racial/cultural identity as a result of cross-cultural immersion. They were also engaged in an arts-based exercise where they pictorially represented perceived…
Descriptors: Eskimos, School Counselors, Mental Health Workers, Counseling Techniques
Robertson, Stacie L. – Journal of Teaching in the Addictions, 2006
Mental health counselors, school counselors, and rehabilitation counselors, much like other professional counselors, encounter clients whose lives are somehow affected by substance use and addictions. Although counselors regularly encounter substance-dependent clients, spouses, children, and/or employers affected by substance abuse, training in…
Descriptors: Rehabilitation Counseling, School Counselors, Allied Health Personnel, Mental Health Workers
Hendrikson, Leslie – 1983
With the growing number of counselors working outside of school settings, licensure of mental health counselors has become an important issue. A main problem facing counselors is the lack of a clear identity. Licensure would lead to increased professionalism and identification. Licensure is authorized by the state legislature, regulating the…
Descriptors: Counselor Attitudes, Counselor Certification, Counselor Qualifications, Counselors