Students from rural backgrounds may face unique challenges with respect to their career-identity development. School counselors are critically positioned to support the career development of these students through a social-justice lens. The following paper proposes a small-group intervention that serves to empower and support middle school…

This study infused key elements of creativity into the process of counselor education, exposing students in a counseling skills and techniques course to a curriculum designed to promote tolerance for ambiguity, appropriate risk-taking behaviors, and improvisational skills. Employing a phenomenological strategy of inquiry, the researcher sought to…

In this article, the author addresses the state of the art issues relating to suicide theory, assessment; risk factors; intervention, prevention, and postvention; and training. Specifically, a recent article published in "The Counseling Psychologist" (J. S. Westefeld et al., 2000) is reviewed. Implications for counselors, counselor educators, and…

A discussion of the systematic eclectic model illustrating its use in the daily duties of a school counselor. This is a flexible model which can be used in a wide range of situations and interventions. (JC)

A model of intervention for meeting human needs through structural rather than individual change is described. The assumptions are that social structures cause social problems, clients are adequate people victimized by inadequate social arrangements, and social workers should act as agents of social change. Principles guiding such practice are…

Summarizes Harren's (1979) career decision-making model. Identifies in six steps how the model can be used as a systematic method for working with career clients. Demonstrates usage of this systematic method through a case study. Suggests this method enhances the counselor-client relationship. (JAC)

Suggests that the remedial-developmental dichotomy in the counseling profession is an artifact of the profession's grounding in linear, mechanistic, and stage-based, organismic theories. Contextually based, developmental systems models are advanced as frameworks that better account for researcher and practitioner observations and bridge the…

This paper describes Crisis Theory, which views certain life events as creating hazards for individual and family growth. Family therapists should sieze every opportunity to intervene during crisis periods and view these periods as transitional states, with opportunities for enhanced growth and functioning. (Author)

Judaism provides for human mental health as well as modern psychology since all elements of counseling philosophy and techniques are inherent in classic Jewish institutions and practices. As opposed to a behaviorist theory of determinism, the Judaic theory of personality and development believes man is endowed with free will but only at the point…

Supports the theory that the counseling psychologist must look both inward and outward for identity in terms of uniqueness (as compared with similar professional groups), and uniqueness as an autonomous group. Describes the developmental orchestrator role as most fruitful when it acts as a catalyst. (JAC