A simple triadic model suggests that problems or circumstances come in three varieties: cognitive, affective, and behavioral. Likewise, client style might be categorized by the same three labels. If the therapist can correctly identify the client's circumstance and style, then the approach can be chosen that seems most likely to produce the most…

Describes four interventions frequently used by experiential therapists during the trial of labor to foster greater intimacy in the therapy relations. Presents a brief overview of the trial of labor stage of the therapy process followed by a description of the four interventions. Includes case examples for clarification. (Author/KS)

Highlights role of the therapist in family therapy impasses involving interactions of the client-family and the therapist. Asserts that the essence of the therapist's role in impasses is ignorance and fear and recommends that family therapy teachers help therapists develop wisdom and courage. (Author/NB)

Drawing on the insights of Ruth Benedict and Abraham Maslow in their search for an ethical gauge by which to rate personal-social health, this article proposes synergistic man'' as the desired outcome model for counselors. (Author)

This study provides several basic descriptive statistics relevant to the newly established counselor education programs in Great Britain. Britain's commitment to its Commonwealth nations adds a dimension with which few American training programs have had to cope. (Author)

This paper describes a content analysis scale, the Counselor Activity Profile, that can be used to objectively and systematically quantify and profile a counselor's interview behavior according to the amount of interview time devoted to various discrete counseling responses. Research done with the scale is also described. (Author)

This paper presents a concept of what a counselor is: a listener; a sensitive, tuned, instrument, a human being, risking oneself again and again in human encounters in which positive gain for the counselee must still reflect the personal dispositions of his own being. (KJ)

Transference, selective retention, and misperception-overstatement are factors considered in the guidance image problem. Suggests image prototypes for school counselors to project. (EK)

Calls client resistance a frequent occurrence within the helping profession. Defines client resistance, provides a brief review of related literature, and offers counselor attractiveness as one way of addressing the issue. Identifies attractive counselor behaviors and attitudes and presents case study illustrating specific attractive counselor…

Over the past several years, the field of elementary school guidance has grown in scope and importance. This monograph, from the Department of Guidance, Counseling, and Student Personnel at Ohio University, represents a recent, comprehensive picture of the status of the field. These five major sections comprise the monograph: (1) a statement of…

Perhaps instead of thinking in terms of either counselors or coordinators, we should think in terms of counselors and coordinators. In differentiating between counselors and coordinators or between two levels of counselors, functions and roles must be considered. Psychological counselors do not necessarily work with all clients, only those needing…

Presents guidelines for clinicians to observe in building and practicing a personal integrative method in family therapy. Focuses on the need for a personal paradigm, the assimiliation of aspects of scholastic approaches, the role of the person of the therapist, the adaptation of the model to specific cases, and the pathways toward developing a…