Reviews the trend in health care toward increasing levels of specialization and draws a distinction between specialization and reductionism. A theory of holistic counseling is derived from social learning and transpersonal psychology. (Author)

This book presents an organized picture of how professional counselors and counseling psychologists can become primary prevention agents and shows that this approach is rooted in the very origins of counseling and counseling psychology. Section I presents the origins and a conceptual understanding of primary prevention in mental health. It shows…

Extensive interest in the authoritarian personality syndrome was piqued by the experience of World War II Nazi domination, and a proliferation of scientific inquiry ensued thereafter. Following an introduction providing a psychoanalytic perspective, this paper attempts to integrate the findings of original thinkers in this area with relevant…

Reviews and critiques the research and theory on sex, gender roles, and the process of therapy. Offers a new paradigm through which to view and conduct this research. Suggests a number of potentially fruitful directions for future research. (Author/ABL)

Develops biopsychosocial perspective to help counselors integrate assessment, treatment, evaluation, and research with chemical dependency and eating disorders addictions. Claims that, although different in content and symptoms, the underlying similarities between these clinical syndromes are clearly seen through this paradigm. (Author)

Introduces special journal issue on ecosystemic mental health counseling, defining ecosystemic thinking as thinking that recognizes indivisible interconnectedness of individual, family, and sociocultural context. Contends that ecosystemic mental health counseling enlarges the field of inquiry and interventions and leads to depth perception and…

Examines methods that are designed to expand and transform consciousness and argues that aspects of transpersonal psychology form the basis for the investigation of rituals, spiritual disciplines, and techniques that provoke shifts in awareness and energy. Outlines a psychosynthesis model for understanding these experiences, and presents a program…

Gives history of Adlerian psychology, describing it as an often neglected yet significant precursor to many psychologies of the 1980s. Reviews Adlerian principles and their relationship to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Third Edition, Revised, 1987. Describes different therapeutic techniques and present practices.…

Presents a model hierarchy of questioning skills in counseling situations, developed to facilitate training of counseling students. Identifies question types and assesses their effectiveness along a continuum. Discusses implications of the mechanisms through which effective questions can be taught in terms of present theoretical assumptions and…

This paper provides a personal look at counseling and counselor education in Hong Kong and Singapore. A section on the availability of formal and informal training resources in counseling notes that many practitioners in the counseling profession in Hong Kong or Singapore go abroad to pursue graduate studies, since, comparatively speaking, Hong…

Advocates a wellness paradigm, maximizing of human potential through positive lifestyle choices, as a philosophical base for counseling and development. Examines six premises that suggest counseling and development professionals already are engaging in wellness interventions. Suggests action steps to affirm a commitment to the wellness philosophy.…

This book was written to provide a professional resource which describes comprehensively what a professional counselor is, what a professional counselor does, and where and when a professional counselor works. The first chapter presents a perspective on professional counseling and differentiates between professional counselors and other mental…