This paper describes a Gestalt approach to stimulating client awareness. The authors present examples of experiments which may be used to facilitate the client in trying on new ways of being. Gestalt principles and theory are explained. (Author)

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)

Covert conditioning includes a set of behavior change techniques that incorporate the "inside" aspects of human experience that had long been ignored by behaviorists. The author reviews the applications of covert conditioning to the field of counseling. (Author)

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)

The purpose of this article is to present a new orientation toward the helping process in order to suggest additional practical strategies for helpers. (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)

Theorizes that the evolution of psychological counseling (from psychoanalysis to trait-and-factor counselng to behavior modification) follows a cyclical pattern based on the repetitive cycles of Western culture, in which faith, logic and power succeed each other as the dominant structuring principles. (WAS)

Activist guidance stresses environmental manipulation and counselor-client participation in the process. This article postulates that social science, not psychology, is the theoretical basis for the activist counselor. (Author)

The new sex therapy, a brief outpatient treatment of sexual dysfunction consisting of structured sexual exercises and conjoint therapeutic sessions, is a systematic integration of behavioral and psychodynamic elements. The integration of approaches in the new sex therapy has general significance for psychotherapeutic theory and practice. (Author)

Employment counselors have many pressures brought on them by various publics. There is a need for theory in the practice of counseling, and a specific approach described is based on existential philosophy. Directing attention in counseling to the meaning of life and to what each person may do to provide answers to this question is the main point…

Poetry is an effective, creative tool in counseling. This article enumerates advantages of using poetry and poetic methods and mentions techniques for incorporating the poem as a whole or in part. Ways of creating poetic awareness in counseling are emphasized. Guidelines for when to use poetry in counseling are suggested. (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)…