The most frequently identified factor associated with the use of religious and spiritual interventions in counseling has been therapists' personal religious attitudes or behaviors. Church attendance and personal religious behaviors, in particular, have been found to correlate with therapists' use of religious and spiritual interventions in…

Describes a comprehensive, integrative model for the initial family interview. Defines essential theoretical constructs which encompass intrapsychic, intergenerational and interactional approaches. Discusses importance of considering therapist behaviors which promote engagement. (Author/ABL)

The majority are aware of their clients' medication use and are willing to contact a physician. Most use medical consultants, request or require medical examinations, and are active in seeking a client evaluation for hospitalization in relation to dangerousness or suicide potential. (Author)

Counselors were equally attentive to the vocational concerns of female and male clients, but asked significantly more questions related to social concerns of a female client. Male and female counselors recalled fewer concerns of the female client. Female counselors remembered more client information than male counselors. (Author)

Investigated counselors' (N=94) attitudes in working with people with drinking problems and their opinions of Alcoholics Anonymous (AA). Results indicate that generic counselors did not feel competent working with these clients; feelings of competence increased with greater experience of the client group. Counselors knew of AA but understood…

Examines transference issues over a nine-month period between a white, female counselor and a black, male client. Attempts to show the positive effects that may come about through a non-ethnic- and non-gender-matched, counselor-client dyad and subsequent benefits to clients of counselor similarity and difference. (RJM)

Examined the relation between counselor intention use and client-rated working alliance. Analyzed ratings of client interpersonal attitudes, client-rated working alliance, and counselor intention use. Major finding was that counselor intention use accounted for moderate proportion of variance in client-rated working alliance. Specific counselor…

Reviews research on counselor profanity and provides guidelines for its use in counseling. Discourages use of profanity with children; discusses profanity to establish rapport, in later sessions, to reach deeper levels of affect, to help clients focus. Considers counselor's personal value system and offensiveness of profanity to clients.…

Discusses how the therapist can serve as a translator when communication becomes toxic or confusing. Describes ways for the counselor to soften hostile messages and harden passive messages. Gives an example of a clarifying interpretation and identifies other uses of translations. (RJM)

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…

Eight experts in Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT) provide personal examples of their own successes and failures in applying REBT to themselves. The experts actively talked to themselves both rationally and irrationally. Rational self-talk was more prevalent in the examples of how REBT was successfully used by the experts. (GCP)

In a national survey, members from the American School Counselor Association, the National Association of Secondary School Principals, and the National Association of Elementary School Principals were asked the extent to which professional school counselors should emphasize the National Standards for School Counseling Programs (Campbell & Dahir,…

The purpose of this study was to examine and describe experienced counselors' explanations of how they become aware of and deal with countertransference reactions in their practice. A qualitative, descriptive method was used. Five Canadian counselors with a minimum experience of 10 years each were investigated. They worked in public agencies or…

Certain interactional theorists propose that for counseling/psychotherapy to be effective, the therapist must control the definition of the therapy relationship. Although the relationship between patterns of relational dominance/control in counseling and counseling outcome seems reasonably well established, little is known of the relationship…

Multiculturalism has been defined as the fourth force in psychology, one which complements the psychodynamic, behavioral, and humanistic explanations of human behavior. Pederson's (1991) definition of multiculturalism leads to the inclusion of a large number of variables making multiculturalism generic to all counseling relationships. Locke (1990)…