The study of nonverbal communication has generated numerous hypotheses, but little that is directly useful to the practitioner. This article discusses the major controversies in the literature to provide an overview of the field. Concepts with practical application are organized into a model for interpreting nonverbal behavior. (Author)

This article presents a model for training counselors to help counselees in the process of making decisions. An effective decision-helping approach that includes processing decisions, relating values to process, and relating actions to beliefs is presented. (Author)

Presents a graphic matrix, the Three Dimensional Intervention Model, to serve as a framework to help counselors visualize the mutual relationships of counseling, consultation, and supervision. An integrated perspective is needed for the enhancement of professionalism and the increase of the overall effectiveness of counseling practitioners. (JAC)

Findings are organized into a four-phase model for implementing training programs that prepare clients to interview more effectively. The four phases include developing realistic expectations, developing successful interviewing skills, using effective training procedures, and preparing clients to cope with rejection shock. (Author)

What the cross-cultural investigator needs is a paradigm that will cut across cultures, allowing observation of the same generic variables and relationships and therefore a comparison of cultures. (Author)

Reviews coping theory and attribution theory to present a systematic approach to stress management counseling that focuses on teaching clients to diagnose life events and to choose the coping response that is most useful for them. Stresses the importance of counselors becoming proficient in a variety of coping techniques. (LLL)

The purpose of consultation is to help other workers to become more efficient and effective. The consulting process is described in nine stages. Positive outcomes are likely if counselee and consultant agree on consulting modality. Consulting models can help support consultation in the work environment. (Author/MFD)

In this article the authors identify four conceptions of career education. They then present a conceptual framework for career development programs which has grown out of programmatic research that the authors have carried out over the past five years. (Author)

A technique designed to provide an idiosyncratic representation of a client's personal socialization experiences and reanalysis of these experiences from social-learning-theory perspective reveals interconnectedness of cognitions, feelings, and actions that contribute to the client's self-image. A case study illustrating the use of…

Traditionally, community college advisement of new students has taken either a group or individual approach. An appropriate advising model affords the opportunity to draw from the assets of both approaches; that is, if grouping is done, individual attention may be given to students by using pertinent student and curriculum factors. (Author)

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)

This issue presents the basic theory underlying the dimensions of counseling, illustrates each of the dimensions, and shows their training implications. The issue features articles that illustrate organizational intervention, associational group intervention, and primary group intervention. (Author/LA)

Deals with the relationship between philosophy and counseling theory as outlined in a metatheoretical model. The model's implications for comparing theories and value orientations are also reviewed. This dialog serves an educational purpose and ensures an arena where counselors continually evaluate the status quo in a cultural context. (JAC)

Presents a format for designing and running workshops to train personnel employed in positions of high customer contact, focusing on the practice of patron contact skills, i.e., communication with problem patrons. Describes opening exercises, attitude exploration, integration skills and attitudes, stress management, and evaluation. (WAS)

This dyadic consulting model promotes a collaberative relationship among persons having responsibility in different community areas. The university is the setting for a consulting agreement between the counseling center and residence halls. A primary committee goal is proaction. A proactive program allows selective goals enhancing professional…