When, why, and how clinicians decide to write about clients are ethical concerns. There are risks and potential clinical ramifications as well as responsibilities for how these decisions are made. On the basis of 141 interviews with psychoanalysts who have published in 3 major national and international psychoanalytic journals, the author explores…

In this study, the authors conducted a survey of nationally certified school psychologists (NCSPs) in Ohio via the Internet. They collected information regarding the beliefs of the NCSPs about the importance of measuring treatment integrity in school-based interventions for children with academic and behavior concerns. The authors collected the…

School counselors acknowledge the need for supervision but rarely receive it. This article describes the counselor performance improvement system in one school district. Supervision is embedded in a process that assesses counselors' levels of professionalism on a matrix of competence and commitment. Administrative and clinical supervisors…

This paper contends that, in a psychotherapeutic relationship, the client must experience himself or herself as deeply understood and unconditionally accepted by the therapist. This subjective experience of the client is seen as the quintessential dimension in successful psychotherapy. The paper goes on to state that the client's experience of…

Twenty-five trained school counsellors co-operated in a study of their work carried out by the University of Keele Institute of Education. This article discusses the pattern of work that emerged. (Editor)

Ethical guidelines of the 4 major professional associations representing counselors and psychotherapists are reviewed. To help clarify thinking about writing up clinical cases, 3 kinds of cases are described. The author concludes that the current guidelines for clinician authors in writing about clients for publication or presentation are…

Used the Session Evaluation Questionnaire (SEQ) to measure the perspectives of 17 novice counselors and their 72 clients on 942 individual counseling sessions. Results suggested novice counselors' judgments of session depth and value may bear little relation to their clients' evaluations, but counselors' comfort and mood were moderately…

This article describes the dilemma of the itinerant school counselor. School administrators feel a need for the itinerant school counselors and yet refuse to admit that these people need a decent available work space. (JC)

The results of the study question the widsom of using testimonials by counselors as support for the positive effects of new recording methods and for the absence of adverse effects. (Author)

Having previously been a teacher is dysfunctional in: (1) giving rise to ambivalence; (2) demanding change in perspective toward student, school system, and teacher; and (3) causing conflict by change in compliance system used with students, and functional in working on student teacher problems. (Author)

Explores ways in which values can interact with a variety of counseling variables to either facilitate or impede the therapeutic process. Focuses on the role of value assumptions within such areas as counselor-client interactions, psychometrics, career services, and the transportability of counseling theories across national boundaries. (Author/BH)

Responds to professional reactions to counselor gullibility. Sees a direct, linear relationship between gullibility and counseling effectiveness. (Author/ABB)

This article concerns the role of the counselor in the secondary school and the problems surrounding that position. (JC)

These findings, along with prior ones from the same investigation, suggest that outcome is affected by the attitudes and beliefs of therapists concerning prognosis for lower-class and severely disturbed clients: therapists who believe they can help such clients can often do so. (Author)

Discusses objective data on suicide, a general philosophy on suicide, and some general methods for counseling. (Author)