Presents an analysis of alleged shortcomings of present forms of counseling and therapy. Counseling, it is claimed, would benefit from redefinition. It should be conceptualized as a cultural practice rather than as a scientific undertaking. Drawing on new intellectual resources would help realign counseling epistemologically and practically to…

This qualitative study explores counsellors' experiences and perceptions of how counselling supervision impacts their clients. The literature review highlights little research in this area. Data collection combined open-ended questionnaires and semi-structured interviews. Analysis was phenomenological incorporating participant validation. The…

This paper describes a framework for counselors that will help them classify personal and social problems of clients for base-line and end-line comparisons. Counseling's goal, as presented here, is to help individuals for a lifetime; therapy is not seen as the giving of advice or solutions, but as a teaching process through which clients become…

A study investigated the influence and effectiveness of career counselors and psychotherapists in facilitating positive life planning for persons recovering from traumatic brain injuries. Information was collected through a personal survey of 13 fairly highly functioning adult members of a head injury support group. Respondents answered in writing…

Short-term therapy is effective by focusing the therapy and employing an interactive style. However, the imposition of an arbitrary termination date appears to be an overreaction and overcorrection to drawbacks of classical psychotherapy. According to Mann, a proponent of termination dates and short-term therapy, the setting of a termination date…

This study suggests that change in students' attitude toward the appropriateness of personal-social problems for treatment at the counseling center could be effected by a personal letter from the counseling center staff. Results support this hypothesis. (Author/H.M.V.)

Has the effectiveness of evaluation in interventive work been overlooked? The Practice Outcome Inventory is a treatment technique that involves the client directly in the evaluation process--with benefit to both client and practitioner. (Author)

Clinical counselors have been recently added to the staff of centers for the treatment of alcohol and drug abuse. The role of a counselor and the problems she/he meets in such a setting are described. The main problem faced is a relatively short time to deal with clients. (SE)

Focusing on studies conducted since 1960, this paper reviews the literature on the role of the counselor in the community college and at other levels of postsecondary education. The first section stresses the value of research on the role of the counselor and the compelling reasons for providing a clear definition of that role. The next section…

Smith et al. (1980) analyzed 475 psychotherapy studies and concluded that individuals receiving treatment were better off than 80 percent of the untreated control groups. These studies were criticized on methodological grounds, particularly for failing to enable calculation of an index of effect size. To address these methodological issues, 20…

Discusses the problems encountered in counseling the ethnically different, referred client who views the counselor as alien and threatening. Concludes that the counselor must help develop the self-esteem of the ethnically different client within the counseling relationship. (HMV)

Article examined the motives and responsibilities of the correctional counselor and how he must think and act in order to effectively involve his clients, social offenders, in developing themselves positively. (RK)

The study was designed to test the hypothesis that a facilitative model would enhance the process of imitative learning by an observer. Results suggest a close relationship between self-theory and social learning with regard to the role of the counselor. (Author)

To determine the effect of subject characteristics and subject control on counseling, a laboratory analogue study was designed. Subjects were given varying degrees of control over the programming of their exploration by assigning them to groups in which high, low, and intermediate levels of external control were manipulated. (Author)

The results of this study indicate that both races, black and white, enter into the counseling relationship with some pre-conceived feelings about the opposite race. Yet, if therapy sessions focus on the here-and-now concept, race was not found to preclude counselors from respecting, uncritically accepting, and recognizing the perceptions or…