Explores the effectiveness of leader interventions in breaking down resistance in a therapy group for battered women (N=6). Session records were analyzed. Results indicated that therapists' statements had a direct influence on client responses. Concluded that a moderate level of interpretation is most effective for maintaining minimum resistance…

The writer criticizes quotations and assertions of Altmann's which lack logic. The fact that some elementary school children require assistance does not justify the need for counselors. Other resources, such as more sympathetic teachers, might be more effective. A sounseling theory appropriate to children has yet to be proposed. (Author/EAK)

The client-worker contract is potentially a dynamic tool that can contribute substantially to the effective outcome of social work intervention. It can be used to clarify objectives and encourage clients to participate in the entire process of intervention. (Authors)

This article presents additional evidence that traditional psychodynamic psychotherapy does not fulfill its manifest function to help individuals achieve "mental health"; thus, its persistence as an ideology and clinical practice can be explained only on the basis of its latent function as a means of social control. (Author)

Ideal role perceptions of counselors were compared with random samples of actual role expectations held for counselors by principals, teachers, parents, and students. The significant role disagreements which were obtained in 82 situations are discussed and tentative reasons for such disagreements are offered. (Author)

A review of recent innovations in counseling style is presented along with an analysis of the advantages of these innovations over the more traditional counseling framework when dealing with disadvantaged clients. The authors recommend the use of these new, directive methods for the effective counseling of these groups. (Author)

When counselors get themselves together and exert effort to determine their role and then act as effective advocates for and with students, it is expected that there will be less pressure from minority students to have counselors of their own ethnic backgrounds. (Author)

Focusing on practical procedures that counselors have found effective and describing the objectives and who, when, where and how of a technique, this column describes the use of Dear Abby" discussion groups to assist students in explaining personal problems in a classroom setting. (Author/CG)

Presents an analysis of the counseling interview derived from the study of television recordings. Suggests that the basic elements of the counseling process (attending, island, and hiatus behavior) are no different than basic elements of human interaction processes. (Author)

The fact that counselor training has not prepared counselors to develop the skills and understandings needed for new undertakings provides a problem. The authors see this problem as an opportunity for a renaissance in counselor education. (Author/BY)

This paper describes a content analysis scale, the Counselor Activity Profile, that can be used to objectively and systematically quantify and profile a counselor's interview behavior according to the amount of interview time devoted to various discrete counseling responses. Research done with the scale is also described. (Author)

This paper presents a concept of what a counselor is: a listener; a sensitive, tuned, instrument, a human being, risking oneself again and again in human encounters in which positive gain for the counselee must still reflect the personal dispositions of his own being. (KJ)