Using a set of established criteria, the author has screened and compiled a list of classics in the field of guidance and counseling. Included in this list are works by Williamson, Rogers, Rothney and Super. (EJT)

Discusses the effects of sexism in counseling in the past, and presents the author's viewpoint on woman's emerging role. (HMV)

The author asserts that it is possible to launch rigorous efforts to expand the empathic understanding skills of the people all around the world. (Author)

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)

The author contends that humans are guided by values and principles. He describes a widely accessible and applicable empirically based therapy system. (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)…

This article discusses the large number of reluctant clients encountered by counselors, the forms the reluctance assumes and reasons for the reluctance. Some strategies for counseling reluctant clients are outlined. (Author/HMV)

The author maintains that counseling, with its developmental tradition, can be responsive to more of the human concerns of today. Hygiology or higher level adjustment is no longer the luxury that it once may have seemed; it is becoming the norm. (Author)

An experienced Gestalt therapist and educator discusses some neglected areas of this popular approach to personal growth. The theory behind Gestalt Therapy is also examined in detail. (Author)

Presents arguments in support of the definition of counseling psychology as a discipline. Examines the history of disciplines, the process fields of study move through in becoming disciplines, the status of counseling psychology, and the domain of psychological knowledge included in the discipline of counseling psychology. (JAC)

The issue of short-term versus long-term treatment has been the focus of much controversy. After examining the arguments on both sides, the author concludes that certain short-term treatment strategies can be used effectively in situations usually seen as requiring long-term treatment. (Author)

Points to a lack of historical studies and posits a rationale for historical study of personalities, events, and ideas in the growth of guidance and counseling. The practice of extending antecedent theory through the development of the history of counseling theory ultimately improves the discipline. (Author)

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)

The author describes his eclectic approach to counseling using RET, TA, client-centered, gestalt and behavioral tools. He uses a specific case study to clarify his method. (Author)