Four types of consultation interventions are discussed, focusing on success and failure factors and potential uses: (1) systems (Kurpius); (2) individual (Dale R. Fuqua and Jody L. Newman); (3) organizational (John C. Aplin); and (4) community (Kenneth Heller). (BL)

Examines the role of the counseling psychologist in physical health concerns and raises questions about the effectiveness of psychological treatments for health problems. Discusses implications for practice, theory, research, and training in counseling psychology and argues that this movement can be effective only if it affects morbidity and…

The author discusses the changing technological society and its forced change on counseling psychology. He challenges the notion that psychologists need to spend their time on changing individuals; institutions are difficult to change. He forwards the need for new methods and a broadening of the settings in which psychologists work. (Author)

Provides overview of salient issues related to scientific and therapeutic work with lesbians and gays. Five sections focus on terms and concepts, sense of social context faced by gay people, discussion of psychology's approach to gay/lesbian issues, overview of gay identity development, and outline of roles and responsibilities of counseling…

Clinical child psychologist responds to four articles by Wagner, Stern and Newland, Kaczmarek and Wagner, and Powell and Vacha-Haase (this issue) on counseling with children. Notes that counseling psychologists are experts on what kinds of environments help children grow and reach their potential. Sees this knowledge as being directly relevant to…

Analyzes four articles by Wagner, Stern and Newland, Kaczmarek and Wagner, and Powell and Vacha-Haase (this issue) on counseling with children. Contends that, although authors indicate that counseling psychologists' work with children would include educational or developmental interventions along with preventive and remedial interventions,…

Attempts to provide information which could be useful to counselors in their work with gay students. Findings on homosexual identity, the gay couple, the gay friendship group and gay contraculture are discussed. It is recommended that counselors adopt a minority group conceptualization of such treatment adjuncts as gay paraprofessional counselors…

A major emphasis of counseling psychology programs should be on training counselors to bring about changes in the system since most of the problems brought to counselors are ones that the ill-fated system has perpetuated. The article calls for young counselors to become innovators, not protectors of the system. (Author)

Morrill and Hurst present their new role of the college counselor in the university setting. They discuss the rationale for an "outreach" model and see the counseling psychologist as an "architect" of an effective learning environment, rather than an individual overwhelmed with the "casualties of ineffective environments and behavioral deficits."…

This survey examined the professional identity of 114 counseling psychologists in Australia. Respondents rated the importance of activities to their present and ideal positions as counseling psychologists. Factor analysis of ratings showed that consultation and education, goal-directed counseling, depth psychotherapy, and program development and…

Outlines current state of victim services field, identifies eight consensus prescriptions for future development, and proposes Cube Model as an integrating conceptual framework. Describes three representative victim service agencies to illustrate model's usefulness. Challenges counseling psychologists to develop broadly based services necessary…

Outlines the ethical considerations for sexual orientation conversion therapy for lesbian, gay, and bisexual individuals. There are numerous reasons not to acquiesce to a client's desire to change his or her sexual orientation. Presents guidelines for responding to a client seeking reorientation and evaluating one's biases regarding lesbian, gay,…

The author defines a counseling psychologist as a psychologist with doctoral level preparation in counseling. He then describes what such preparation should include and discusses factors affecting identity. Developments bearing on the identity of the counseling psychologist are given. The author reflects on the growing edges of counseling…

The authors, as counselor educators, share their perspectives of what identity problems counseling psychologists have and what choices the profession must make of it is to continue to develop and mature. (Author)

William Butler, from his many years of experience as a higher education administrator, discusses his view of the need for counseling psychologists to move more into the role of supervising paraprofessionals and training others; i.e., preventive work and psychological education, taking more institutional as compared to individual perspectives.…