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Rencken, Robert H. – 2000
This book provides a framework for understanding the dimensions (scope, taxonomy, philosophy) and dynamics (individual, familial, societal) of pedosexual behavior, particularly child sexual abuse. It focuses on the implementation of integrated intervention strategies for any professional facing these issues. It attempts to provide comprehensive…
Descriptors: Brief Psychotherapy, Change Strategies, Child Abuse, Counseling
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Smith, J. David; Agate, Jeffrey – Counselor Education and Supervision, 2004
Overconfidence in clinical judgment is a common problem among counselors that undermines the validity of the counselors' assessments and, by implication, the quality of client services. The authors evaluated an instructional module designed to reduce overconfidence among counselor trainees who completed an assessment task that exposed them to some…
Descriptors: Counselors, Mental Health Workers, Counselor Training, Pretests Posttests
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Aten, Jamie D. – Counseling and Values, 2004
This article presents a model for creating internship sites at college campus ministries for students interested in interfacing religion and counseling. More specifically, a systematic process that students can implement in developing these unique training opportunities is provided. Developing campus ministry internship and other training sites…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Religion, Educational Opportunities, Beliefs
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Wells, Marolyn C.; Hill, Michele B.; Brack, Gregory; Brack, Catherine J.; Firestone, Elizabeth E. – Journal of College Student Psychotherapy, 2006
Evidence garnered by this study may help provide college counselors with a clinically useful model of codependency, informing their assessment and treatment planning of students who present with self-identified codependency characteristics. Specifically, codependence inclined students may exhibit tendencies toward self-defeating and covert…
Descriptors: Intimacy, Adolescents, Interpersonal Relationship, College Students
Gary, Lawrence E.; And Others – 1982
This study was designed to start a data base on black mental health practitioners working with black clients. The sample group consisted of 177 (57 men, 120 women) black school counselors and 36 (5 men, 31 women) psychologists in seven predominantly black, urban public schools. The information gathered covered the following areas: (1) demographics…
Descriptors: Black Students, Blacks, Elementary Secondary Education, Mental Health Programs
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Sharkin, Bruce S.; Plageman, Paula M.; Coulter, Lisa P. – Journal of College Counseling, 2005
Help-seeking (HS) students and non-help-seeking (NHS) students were compared on their perceptions of (a) their own level of mental health functioning and (b) the average level of mental health functioning of their (NHS or HS) peers. Results showed that NHS students' perceptions of HS students' self-ratings were similar to HS students' self-ratings…
Descriptors: Mental Health, Help Seeking, Student Attitudes, Psychological Patterns
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De Coteau, Tami; Anderson, Jessiline; Hope, Debra – Cognitive and Behavioral Practice, 2006
Although there is a small but growing body of literature examining the psychopathology of anxiety among Native Americans, no data are available regarding the efficacy of empirically supported treatments for anxiety disorders among Native Americans. Moreover, exceptional challenges arise in adapting mainstream approaches to Native Americans, such…
Descriptors: Health Services, American Indians, Mental Health Programs, Psychopathology
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Daire, Andrew P.; Casado-Kehoe, Montserrat; Lin, Chang-Hui – Journal of Creativity in Mental Health, 2005
Parents dream that their children will have every benefit possible to survive and thrive in the world. When their children have special needs, these dreams are challenged. Parents must adjust to the needs of their child and to the loss of this aspect of their dream. Common challenges and considerations when working with fathers of children with…
Descriptors: Intervention, Disabilities, Coping, Emotional Disturbances
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Hinton, Devon E.; Safren, Steven A.; Pollack, Mark H.; Tran, Minh – Cognitive and Behavioral Practice, 2006
For Vietnamese refugees, we describe (a) how headache- and orthostasis-focused panic attacks are generated, (b) a culturally sensitive treatment for PTSD with comorbid headache- and orthostasis-focused panic attacks, and (c) the outcome of a treatment series. In a multiple-baseline, across-subjects design (N = 3), all patients demonstrated…
Descriptors: Vietnamese People, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Mental Health, Behavior Modification
Gass, Carlton S. – 1983
While the role of values in psychotherapy has received increasing attention, little attention has focused on value congruence between client and therapist. To examine the relationship of specific religious beliefs and values to psychotherapy and mental health, 100 orthodox Christian and 104 nonorthodox and non-Christian college students completed…
Descriptors: Beliefs, Christianity, College Students, Congruence (Psychology)
Wile, Daniel B. – 1983
Short-term therapy is effective by focusing the therapy and employing an interactive style. However, the imposition of an arbitrary termination date appears to be an overreaction and overcorrection to drawbacks of classical psychotherapy. According to Mann, a proponent of termination dates and short-term therapy, the setting of a termination date…
Descriptors: Counseling Effectiveness, Counseling Objectives, Counselor Client Relationship, Counselor Role
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Zarski, John J.; And Others – Journal of Counseling & Development, 1986
The stress and illness paradigm is expanded by empirically testing social interest as a personality variable influencing somatic health. Examines stress using an instrument that measures daily hassles. Compares the usefulness of this measure to the life experiences methodology. Findings related to these variables are not consistent with previous…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Diseases, Mental Health, Personality Traits
Kadambi, Michaela A.; Truscott, Derek – Canadian Journal of Counselling, 2004
Vicarious trauma, traumatic stress and burnout were investigated among three separate groups of mental health professionals working primarily with three different client populations (sexual violence, cancer, general practice). Participants (N=221) completed the Traumatic Stress Institute Belief Scale Revision M (TSI), the Maslach Burnout Inventory…
Descriptors: Measures (Individuals), Psychometrics, Violence, Mental Health Workers
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Baggerly, Jennifer N.; Rank, Michael G. – Professional School Counseling, 2005
To ensure the safety of school-aged children and adolescents, school counselors must not ignore or deny the public health threat of bioterrorism (Henderson, 1998). Rather, school counselors must be prepared with knowledge about bioterrorism and intervention skills. Bioterrorism within the United States is a continuing threat. Because children and…
Descriptors: Disease Control, Terrorism, Public Health, National Security
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Leitner, Michael J.; Leitner, Sara F. – British Journal of Guidance and Counselling, 2005
If leisure is defined as free or unobligated time, then leisure is clearly the category of time expenditure that has the greatest potential for making people healthy and happy but it also has the greatest potential for creating problems. Therefore, educating and counselling people on how to make best use of their free time can have a great impact…
Descriptors: Therapy, Leisure Time, Leisure Education, Well Being
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