Carl Rogers re-examines and re-evaluates the importance of empathy in counseling today. (HMV)

While the notion of "training as a therapeutic treatment" is a popular one and a relatively new development in the field, the authors dip into the past to give a broader perspective on psychotherapy as an educational process in their extensive review of this literature. (Author)

Explores counseling and psychotherapy in a phenomenological perspective concerning the suspension of objectivity. Discusses structures, including (1) primacy of experience, (2) perspective nature of therapist's and client's experience, (3) focus on process rather than outcome, (4) a dialectical framework, (5) time, (6) meeting issues, (7)…

In recent research cognitive therapists have been paying increased attention to the linkage between thought, feeling, and the nature of the unconscious process. Although traditional cognitive theory maintains that cognition precedes affect, recent research on the relationship has shown that affect may precede cognition. It is only in those cases…

Examines the proliferation of counseling theories, each with a following, that are confusing not only to counselors but to students, clients, and the public. Presents a list of 105 theories and some humorous suggestions for dealing with them. (JAC)

Examines the development of cross-cultural counseling and psychotherapy in the United States. Reviews theoretical models, research on client-counselor differences, and approaches to counselor training in light of the special problems and skills pertinent to cross-cultural counseling. (WAS)

Points out a fallacy in Freud's theory and treatment methods that has affected helping professionals. Explores an alternative method that uses time limitation and confrontation as basic counseling tools. Suggests short-term counseling is economical and its effectiveness is more easily measured. (Author/JAC)

Reviews the historical underpinnings of dream theories and suggests that discussions of dreams in counseling can aid in setting up and maintaining therapeutic contact with clients. A number of theoretical positions on the function of dreams are discussed. Specific dream counseling techniques are also delineated. (JAC)

Identifies several of the most important forms of recent and current family research and family therapy that are important to clinicians. Suggests that the reunion of clinical and research interests signifies a new growth of the family therapy field. (Author/JAC)

Examines the structural and strategic schools of family therapy. Presents both a conceptual and practical framework for relating these two, often contradictory, schools to one another. Discusses the therapist's dilemma in trying to integrate these two approaches. (Author)

Although the roots of phototherapy extend back to the late 1850's, it did not emerge as a distinct entity until the late 1970's. Growing interest has generated a substantial body of literature in the field. While photographs may be looked at concretely, as two-dimensional, their symbolic and metamorphic nature is a potentially powerful tool in…

Refutes an article by Albert Ellis regarding rational-emotive therapy. (HMV)

Review contain a wide variety of perspectives on how sex role stereotyping limits the psychological growth and development of women, and on how the apparent limitations may be redressed by different kinds of intervention strategies. (Author)

Reviews current forms of treatment for the symptomatic child including individual child psychotherapy, conjoint parent-child psychotherapy and counseling, parent therapy and counseling, and conjoint family therapy. Suggests each approach has certain strengths, but alone is an incomplete treatment mode. Recommends an integration of child and family…

Accurate empathy is presented in terms of the previous theoretical and operational definitions, and a new theoretical view of experiential empathy is described. Support for the theory of experiential empathy is found in the research on meditation. A model for developing empathy as a felt-level experience is proposed. (Author)