Summarizes history and current status of feminist counseling and psychotherapy. Describes formation and development of feminist therapy during the 1970s, compares early commitments with aspects of change and maturation, and reviews areas of agreement and disagreement during 1980s and early 1990s. Draws on literatures of social work and psychology…

The author concludes that what has true meaning" for the counselee may be a bundle of misconceptions about himself and the world. He has grave misgivings about the claim that the means and information will be used in proper congruence with" anything. (Author/BY)

Responds to previous article by Carolyn Zerbe Enns on feminist counseling and psychotherapy. Sees Enns's article as a valuable resource and reacts to Enns's article from the perspective of a radical feminist therapist. Discusses the difficulty involved in trying to effectively integrate radical feminism with psychotherapy. (NB)

Responds to earlier article by Carolyn Zerbe Enns on feminist counseling and psychotherapy. Acknowledges productive impact of Enns's review, but raises some concerns related to the conception of history and some of the conclusions that are reached. Discusses two important parameters that merit more attention, focusing on the future of feminist…

Examines four major assumptions about change (accommodation, hope, truth, divine agent) which undergird Christian counseling. Discusses assumptions' application for therapy and research. Argues lack of careful assumptive reflection among theorists of Christian therapy leads to numerous pragmatic and scientific difficulties, including dearth of…

Critiques existing conceptions of consultation and identifies factors inhibiting construction of cogent theory. To break the current impasse, a new paradigm, a meta-theory of consultation, is proposed. Reactions and extensions are offered by Jack I. Bardon on consultation characteristics and variants, and Fortune V. Mannino and Milton F. Shore on…

Sugggests that because the subject matter of psychology (i.e., human beings) is different from natural sciences, the model of psychological research, adapted from the sciences, may not be appropriate for understanding human behavior. Two human capacities, reflexivity and values, are discussed and their implications for science are delineated. (JAC)

The author sees Kemp's views on counselor preparation as most interesting. One would hope that much of what he suggests about developing insights into man through literature and other creative arts would take place as part of every college student's undergraduate endeavors. (Author/BY)

The author directs his review of Kemp's Existential Counseling" toward a concern with the implication that existential therapy is a proposed successor to other forms of therapy including psychoanalysis. (Author/BY)

Sometimes, it is difficult for a profession to move forward because its members interpret emerging conceptual models from the perspective of old frameworks. Each of the five reactants in this issue of "The Counseling Psychologist" interpreted the strength-based counseling model within their own self-adopted framework--Adlerian psychology, role…

To the extent that the existential counselor overstresses the subjectivity of the counselor's life goals and the authenticity with which he pursues them, he may be thwarting the possibility of a better balance and integration between the worlds of things, people and self. (Author)

Integrates work of cross-cultural counselor training development theorists, racial-identity development specialists, and cross-cultural counseling competency experts in formation of comprehensive multicultural training model for majority-group counselors. Reviews and integrates extant stage models of white racial consciousness, describes how…

This article proposes a strength-based model for counseling at-risk youth. The author presents the assumptions, basic concepts, and values of the strength perspective in counseling and offers strength categories as a conceptual model for viewing clients' behavior. Propositions leading toward a theory of strength-based counseling and stages of this…

Suggests ingredients in the therapy relationship that are common to all interventions. Examines similarities and differences in how the relationship works within the three dominant approaches to therapy to restimulate research and theory. (JAC)

This article presents an examination of several personality theories, questioning their relevance and appropriateness for women and also the counseling methods and approaches based upon these theories. (JC)