This study was designed to evaluate attitudes toward and utilization of evidence-based practices (EBPs) among mental health professionals specializing in trauma. An Internet survey was completed by 461 trauma professionals who were recruited via International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies membership rolls and electronic mailing lists of…

This digest on counselor intentionality notes that the counseling profession has historically searched for characteristics and behaviors that contribute to successful helping relationships. It identifies one such characteristic, the counselor's level and degree of intentionality, as relating to the notion that successful counselors select their…

Addresses ethical issues in the engagement and termination phases of marital and family therapy. Engagement phase must examine commitment to systemic intervention versus serving motivated clients. Termination phase must examine client's and therapist's ways of managing readiness, prematurity, and follow-up. Proposed solutions are suggested. (ABL)

Presents Carl Rogers' views on facilitating groups, as expressed in a telephone dialogue seminar with graduate students in counselor education at North Texas State University. Discusses extended group marathons, cocounseling, nonverbal group exercises and the future of group work. (JAC)

Explores the difficulties, dilemmas, and opportunities afforded by working within a time-limited counseling framework. Gives a brief outline of the change process and provides the backdrop for some reflections on the extent to which time-limited working is consistent with, and adaptable to, a humanistic-dynamic conception of the person. (RJM)

Surveys 86 mental health professionals employed in university counseling centers in the United States on their attitudes toward discussing religious and spiritual topics and toward using religious and spiritual practices in counseling. Participants viewed the use and discussion of spiritual topics/practices more favorably than the use and…

Discusses reasons for adolescents' resistance to analytic treatment and analysts' reservations about treatment focusing on adolescents' anxieties during the process of individuation and analysts' potential lack of awareness of their own adolescence and its anxieties. Explains different types of analyst anxieties as well as those of the adolescent…

Objective: The author's purpose in this study was to examine the relation between smoking cessation counseling self-efficacy, knowledge of smoking cessation counseling, motivation to counsel smokers, and barriers to performing smoking cessation counseling, relative to the smoking cessation counseling stage of change. Participants and Methods:…

The purpose of this study was to determine the attitudes held by counseling psychologists about alcoholics and alcoholism, and to determine the relationship between these attitudes and the individual's level of experience, knowledge and training in the alcoholism domain. Although counseling psychologists typically deal with developmental issues,…

Argues that it is mandatory that counselors suspend any disbelief in their clients during the early stages of counseling because disbelieving interferes with counselor spontaneity and empathy. Offers suggestions for what can be done to develop appropriate levels of gullibility in counselors in training. (Author/ABB)

Responds to the Selvini paper on family psychosis by warning that the work betrays negative attitudes toward the patient population and that the research needs to be tested in a rigorous and scholarly manner. Suggests that the techniques involved are not helpful and may be dangerous to severely distressed families. (Author/ABB)

Presents a model for understanding termination conflict resulting from competing rather than complementary responses to successful counseling. Discusses termination conflict as a threat to an otherwise successful counseling relationship. (Author)

Student-athletes have unique challenges as they confront pressures to perform both athletically and academically. The authors present a systems approach that will enhance the conceptualization skills that counselors need to intervene more effectively with college student-athletes as well as address counselors' own stereotypes and biases about…

Presents eight categories of client attitudes toward religion and suggests opportunities for religiously oriented counselor responses. Uses four categories to describes how religion may be associated with specific client issues. Contends that an informed appreciation of clients' religiousness and the religious dimensions of many client issues can…

Conducted two studies to survey counselors about ethical aspects of delivering career information by computer to students and to assess their attitudes about use of computer-assisted career guidance systems (CACGS). Results paint accurate picture of state of actual CACGS use and related ethical standards. Extensive bibliography is appended. (NB)