This article aims to address issues of culture in counselling, with a particular emphasis on the links between culture, action, and counselling. It also addresses how action can be incorporated into counselling, with contextual action theory as an integrative framework. To this end, the article reviews the notion of culture and a general…

The author describes her counseling style with the aging, which is designed to provide an atmosphere of understanding and sharing in order to foster their growth. (Author)

The counselor, in working with students, can make each choice a means through which the person clarifies his purposes and designs his own future. Every commitment of time is a serious undertaking. This, the author sees, is the fundamental message of existentialism for counseling. (Author)

Presents a conceptual model of and strategies for counseling on issues of personal loss. Problems appear when grieving is not allowed to proceed naturally. Counseling should aim to identify the need for and facilitate the process of grieving so clients are not overwhelmed. (Author)

In this article, the author describes the major problems facing our society and sets the stage for the alternative styles of counseling by presenting them in this issue. Atkin asks us to rethink the entire counseling profession and to reexamine the relationship between counselor and client. (Author)

The eclectic approach combines concepts and techniques from six existing counseling approaches: behavioral, client centered, existential, Gestalt, rational-emotive, and reality. (Author)

The involuntary client is a frequently encountered problem in employment counseling and other social agency counseling. Possible reasons for his recalcitrance are examined and their implications for the counseling relationship are discussed. (Author)

A humanistically-oriented dynamic approach for the treatment of depression in older persons is presented. A multi-level therapeutic model of treatment is discussed in detail. Included are initiation of the therapeutic relationship, specific tools for problem-solving, relationship building, and insight, termination, transference, and…

As the theory of values clarification began to receive wide acceptance, energies were turned toward devising numerous strategies techniques, and exercises for helping people of all ages to clarify experiences based on values clarification theory. The strategies are taken from Simon, Howe, and Kirschenbaum (1972). (Author)

In this article, the author looks at the obstacles to a sharing relationship with clients which counselors set up by stereotyping people and seeking to enhance their own status. (Author)

This column presents the results of a time use survey which clearly suggests that counselors who are free to build their own approaches choose both counseling and consulting. (Author)

The author discusses goals of today's feminist movement. She concludes that to be truly helping persons for today's females, counselors must take courses in consciousness raising groups, and pursue internships supervised by feminists. (Author/BY)

DEFINING THE ROLE OF A COUNSELOR IS A TASK WHICH IS COMPLICATED BY THE CHANGING WORLD, THE CHANGING SOCIAL STRUCTURE, AND THE INFLUENCES OF GOVERNMENT. THE ROLE IS FURTHER COMPLICATED BY THE FACT THAT COUNSELING HAS ORIGINATED FROM A VARIETY OF DISCIPLINES, BORROWING FROM THE JOB OF THE TEACHER, THE ADMINISTRATOR, THE SOCIAL WORKER, AND THE…

A review of the counseling literature from 1972 through 1974 suggested consultation and training aimed at remediation and prevention as the most appropriate means for intervention during an era of accountability and cutbacks. Working with communities and institutions rather than with individuals was also stressed. (Author/SE)

This article suggests the application of anticipatory intervention principles in schools to meet the psychological needs of teachers, pupils, and parents as well as of the school as an organizational system for coping with extreme stress caused by either natural or man-made disaster. (Author)