This text presents current, accessible information on enhancing the counseling process using a brain-based paradigm. Leading experts provide guidelines and insights for becoming a skillful neuroscience-informed counselor, making direct connections between the material covered and clinical practice. In this much-needed resource-the first to address…

The experiences of disabled people suggest that ableism insidiously and invasively impacts upon the practice of counselling and related therapies. This article critiques a particular account of psychotherapy with a child with the label of autism to illustrate how ableism can disrupt the process of empathy and negate the therapeutic experience. In…

Academic underachievement, a syndrome affecting nearly 50% of gifted adolescents across gender, race, and socioeconomic strata, has fueled research for decades, in an attempt to identify its antecedents, characteristics, and consequences on the individual and on society. The research bridges fields of inquiry that converge in the area of human…

Results showed that the two-chair dialog applied at a split produced more depth of experiencing than did focusing plus emphatic reflection. Both treatments produced significantly greater reported shifts in awareness and progress than the no-treatment controls. (Author)

Presents primary source documentation highlighting the similarities between Alfred Adler's social interest construct and the counselor-oriented core conditions of Carl Rogers. Implications of the similarities are discussed. (Author)

Assists counselor educators, supervisors, and practicing counselors to determine conditions under which high technology alone, high touch alone (based on empathic interpersonal skills), or the purposeful combination of the two may be the preferred mode of treatment. Stresses the need for counselor education programs. (LLL)

Explores multiple understandings of empathy: as affective resonance, as cognitive understanding and perspective taking, as action and cognizance, and as imagination. Offers definitions of, and obstacles to, empathy. Focuses on systemic empathy, gender empathy, and ethnic empathy. Discusses perspective taking in marriage and describes techniques…

From a humanistic orientation, Carl Rogers (1964) described 3 ways of knowing with reference to empathic understanding: subjective, interpersonal, and objective. In the context of a threefold perspective of knowledge, the author expands on Rogers's conception of empathy. As a consequence of a conceptual change in the direction of empathy,…

Examined both instructional effectiveness in attribution processes and practices in empathic perspective taking, in deconstructing the dispositional bias of counselor trainees. Results show that counselors receiving either of two interventions, exhibited significantly lower dispositional bias in responding to videotaped clinical cases than did…

Group participation enables individual to alter goals and attitudes while maintaining status. Counselor acts as a guide in facilitating group and individual development. (CJ)

Results of this comparison of treatment methods indicated that all groups improved significantly on drinking measures. Breath testing was found to be unhelpful as an assessment procedure. The degree to which therapists showed accurate empathy proved to be a good predictor of client outcome. (Author)

This paper describes the development of Allo-Centered (altruistic other-centered) Psychotherapy, an other-centered form of counseling which aims to redirect the client's orientation from self to others. It is noted that this approach is also suitable for clients from group-oriented cultures such as Asians, Pacific Islanders, or Latin Americans.…

Showed that depth of experiencing and shifts in awareness were higher following Gestalt intervention. Reported conflict resolution was also greater. Results support claims for the efficacy of Gestalt two-chair dialogue used in the context of a good working relationship in helping to resolve intrapsychic conflicts. (Author)

Analyzed social, developmental, and counseling psychology literature to gain insight into the confusion regarding definition and measurement of empathy. Discussed four proposals for understanding empathy with no clear-cut conclusion regarding the role of empathy in producing positive outcomes. (LLL)

Accurate empathy is presented in terms of the previous theoretical and operational definitions, and a new theoretical view of experiential empathy is described. Support for the theory of experiential empathy is found in the research on meditation. A model for developing empathy as a felt-level experience is proposed. (Author)