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)

The present study focused on therapist reports of their treatment goal priorities in working with children with sexual behavior problems. The study examined whether treatment goal priorities varied with therapist training and experience, and whether they reflected differences in the nature and seriousness of the youths' clinical problems. Results…

This paper addresses the relationship between the counseling supervisee and supervisor. Included are suggestions for better communication and ideas to foster the supervisees individual and professional growth. (GCP)

It has been stated that the supervisory relationship is as central to effective supervision as the therapy relationship is to effective therapeutic outcomes. Thus, being able to understand the elements of effective supervisory relationships, monitoring those relationships, and intervening as needed would be critical in effective supervision. This…

Career literature is limited in its theoretical and practical understanding about the role that spirituality plays in career development and career choices. African Methodist Episcopal Church women were surveyed about their spirituality and its role in their career choices in a pilot naturalistic study. The purpose of the study was to discover how…

The application of psychological testing is largely an attempt to derive probabilistic statements regarding the likelihood of occurrence of client states, choice outcomes, situational antecedents, and behavioral outcomes. Counseling psychologists share with others the occupational requirement of having to deal with uncertainty in test results and…

The history of counseling psychology in Australia, which has been marked by confusion and uncertainty about the distinction between it and other applied areas such as clinical psychology, community psychology, educational psychology, and psychotherapy, is discussed in this paper. The development of the Division of Counselling Psychology within the…

A counselor's ability to form an accurate and complex clinical hypothesis which models the client and guides the counseling process is an important aspect of counseling. This study was conducted using Masters level counseling students to explore clinical hypothesis formation and counseling effectiveness in a semi-natural counseling task. Each of…

The complexity of the global society and economy, and the resulting fracturing of social classes across the Midwest, the nation, and the world demand a significant expansion of the importance of human relations training courses for counselor education and for general teacher education. At the University of South Dakota at Vermillion the School of…

The three processes of empathy, creativity, and family therapy intervention are connected. A review of the literature about empathy has shown the therapist's level of empathy to be positively associated with certain traits: cognitive flexibility, cognitive differentiation, perceptual sensitivity, and tolerance of ambiguity. A summary of the…

Evaluating the progress of counselor trainees is not a periodic activity for supervisors, but rather an on-going process that is required in order to provide the trainee with appropriate feedback and a plan for future training experiences. This study is a continuation of a program of research examining the supervision and developmental process of…

This paper presents 10 specific innovative ideas for teaching a basic research course to counseling students. Each idea is presented briefly and an illustrative example is provided in the appendices. The ideas presented include: (1) encouraging full-time counselor educators to teach the research courses; (2) making direct attempts to reduce…

A study was conducted which continued the investigation of the underlying structure of supervision by empirically testing Bernard's (1979) two-dimensional model and Littrell et al.'s (1979) unidimensional developmental model of supervision. To test the models, 25 counselor trainees from two master's counselor programs were compared to 23 counselor…

As an approach to mental health skills training, Interpersonal Process Recall (IPR) emphasizes a learning by discovery method. There are seven basic units in the IPR training package: (1) presentation, on the skills of facilitating communication; (2) affect simulation; (3) counselor recall; (4) inquirer training; (5) client recall; (6) mutual…

This study examined the degree and dimensions of professional satisfaction among a large, nationally-representative sample of practicing counselors. The objectives of the study included estimating the distribution of global professional satisfaction among practicing counselors; examining the relationships between counselors' global professional…