David Adeyemo works at the Department of Guidance and Counselling at the University of Ibadan in Ibadan, Nigeria. This article presents a transcript of an online interview with Adeyemo, focusing on his experience providing counseling services at the University. Topics in the interview include the percentage of campus students that come for…

This article presents an online interview about college psychotherapy at a Hong Kong counseling center. The interview discusses how students generally feel about going for counseling or therapy and how common it is in Hong Kong.

This article introduces Yii-nii Lin, Professor in the Center for Teacher Education at the National Tsing Hua University in Taiwan, and prior director of the university's counseling center for a 3 year term. She has worked as a university counselling psychologist for more than 15 years when she participated in an online interview that questioned…

"Preparing International Medical Graduates (IMGs) for Psychiatry Residency: A Multi-Site Needs Assessment" (1) addresses the needs of IMGs entering psychiatry residency training in Canada. On the basis of a survey of five psychiatric residency training programs, the authors report that respondents ranked (in order of importance)…

This article presents the authors' response to a comment made by O'Kearney and Wilmoth on their article. The authors mention that O'Kearney and Wilmoth's rejoinder contained many positive features and supported the common aim of delivering best practice, improved access and equity, and cost efficiency in psychological therapies. They added that it…

This moving clinical account describes the psychotherapeutic work of a child psychotherapist undertaken in a hospital room with 13-year-old Maya, after the sudden onset of a terrifying and serious illness, Guillain-Barre syndrome, leaving her with paralysis and extreme weakness. The first session takes place almost three weeks after Maya's…

This is an edited version of a recent interview with Annette Mendelsohn, Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist at the Royal Free Hospital, London, UK. It aims to make available in published form Mendelsohn's thinking and approach in relation to her work with traumatised children in a hospital setting. Mendelsohn also discusses her work in a…

In view of the limitations of mainstream Western psychology, the necessity of indigenous psychology for the development of global community psychology is discussed in the context of multiculturalism. In addition to this general introduction, four articles underlying a common theme were designed to discuss (a) various types of value conflicts…

Presents case for designation of "ritual" as psychotherapeutic technique for use in maladaptive grieving. Gives examples of attitudes and use of rituals in psychoanalysis, strategic and existential psychotherapies, and pastoral and cross-cultural counseling. Suggests how, when, and why rituals can be used to assist individuals to move…

Examines potential relationships to explore between counseling and philosophy. Posits that philosophy already provides the ground on which counseling stands, and, therefore, if counseling is to strengthen its foundations, it needs to examine where it currently locates itself intellectually, ethically, and culturally. (Contains 11 references.) (GCP)

Describes behavior and background of adolescents in a therapeutic community and proposes that all experiences in the residential context need to form a single integrated psychotherapeutic process. Central consideration is of the significance of food and its treatment potential in this total process. (Author)

Responds to Mahoney and Lyddon's review in previous article and notes that it clarifies differences between rationalist and constructivist approaches to cognitive theory. Asserts that principles of constructivist therapy are highly consistent with principles of experiential therapy. (NB)

Responds to previous article by Gelso and Carter (this issue) on components of psychotherapy relationship: working alliance, transference configuration, and real relationship. Considers difficulty in discriminating between transference and real relationship, both at conceptual and measurement levels. Also sees concept of real relationship as vague…

Addresses difficulties in conducting psychotherapy with inpatient adolescents and describes how the idea of working closely with adolescents positively and realistically enables adolescent workers to meet the challenges of residential work. Offers a perspective on the adolescent worker's ongoing therapeutic relationship with inpatient adolescents.…

Discusses several strengths and weaknesses of the behavioral approach in psychotherapy. Possible remediation of some of the weaknesses are explored through integration of contributions from client-centered or psychodynamic approaches. Risks associated with an integrated model of psychotherapy are considered. (Author)