Describes the development of health maintenance organizations along with the possible roles for mental health workers in such organizations. Discusses implications for mental health counselors in the future. (Author/ABB)

Describes the demanding role and responsibilities of a district school guidance counselor serving 10 grade K-12 schools with a total enrollment of 490 students in an isolated region of Alaska covering 26,000 square miles. (NEC)

Presents "upstream", a model for the utilization of professional counseling services in the residence halls, encompassing developmental, preventive, and remedial approaches. Suggests that the professional counselor can assist in four capacities in the actualization of these approaches: as a therapist, as a consultant, as a change agent,…

A study examining factors that contribute to effective team functioning in inpatient psychiatric facilities showed that most respondents, who were all members of such teams, agreed that teamwork helped to improve treatment plans for individual clients. Roles social workers take as team members are examined and important issues about team…

Presents an overview of research on factors that influence the latchkey experience, and a survey that can be used in assessing conditions that exist with latchkey children on the local level. Practical suggestions for the counselor's role are given. (BL)

To fill a gap in the existing knowledge base the network of personal and community supports that may be mobilized by rehabilitation counselors in working with older, disabled persons is identified. (Author/BL)

The model stresses a focus on functional skills and suggests that assessment and remediation data facilitate placement into the training environment which maximizes productivity and minimizes dependency, and that counselors and case managers function as enablers who facilitate the client's movement into a less restrictive and more productive…

Discusses poems written by the author, an analyst, as a study of her own journey through the labyrinth of countertransference during treatment of a woman who belonged to an alcoholic family. Notes that the poems served several functions: as a means to study countertransferential feelings; as holding environments; as diagnostic tools; and as…

Presents information on M.E.A.S.U.R.E., a process that assists school counselors in delivering a data-driven school counseling program. Highlights challenges faced by school counselors in an accountability-driven environment and provisions of the No Child Left Behind Act. (Contains 10 references and 6 tables.) (GCP)

Describes a support group for African-American students on a predominantly white university campus to illustrate contextual and ethnocultural influences on group therapeutic factors. Issues for counselors are also presented, including implications for both practice and research. (Author/NB)

Defines Single-Session Brief Counseling; explains Brief Counseling training program; and discusses how Brief Counseling program satisfied training needs. Claims participation promotes professional and personal development. Suggests ways to incorporate Brief Counseling into school programs. (ABL)

Used Jungian psychodynamics in investigation of participative community planning to enhance interpersonal cooperation, initiated primarily to aid the economic revival of Montana. Used search conference technique with Jungian psychodynamics and the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator to achieve better understanding of group economic revitalization.…

Provides theoretical, historical, and professional examination of the art as therapy approach and art psychotherapy. States that responsive art making is helpful in establishing empathic relationships with adolescents, in providing art therapists with an expressive outlet for the potent feelings that arise in the clinical context, and in forming a…

Presents and discusses a plan which attempts to help students understand the physical and social consequences of smoking as well as what it means to be addicted. Argues that school counselors need to provide children with as much information as possible so that they are better equipped to make good choices. (GCP)

Although advocacy has a long tradition in the counseling profession (Kiselica & Robinson, 2001), school counselors' roles as advocates have only recently received widespread attention (Baker & Gerler, 2004). The American School Counselor Association National Model describes advocacy as a key role for professional school counselors, and numerous…