Describes a research project designed to help empower the largely female child welfare staff and clients in a British Columbia child welfare agency by giving them more authority to shape agency practice according to their joint plans. (MDM)

Social workers (n=395) were surveyed concerning their role in assisting older parents of developmentally disabled individuals with permanency planning. Practitioners, administrators, and educators similarly perceived ease in counseling aging families, but also noted their need for additional resources and specialized training. Recommendations…

Discusses counseling issues unique to Africans attending college at American universities and the need to incorporate the African worldview when counseling these students. Offers suggestions for helping counselors work effectively with this student population and describes issues to which counselors must be sensitive, such as boundary concerns,…

Camp Adventure is an international youth organization that trains college students to work as camp counselors at camps on U.S. military bases. Diary excerpts from four camp counselors (three who worked in Panama and one in the United States) reveal how they adapted to diversity in people, locales, and cultures. (LP)

Assessed 40 counseling students' power base preferences--expert, referent, and legitimate. Results indicate that counseling students do not vary in their endorsement of the different power bases as a function of experience level. All students preferred legitimate power more than referent power and referent power more than expert power. (RJM)

Made two counseling videotapes: Tape A proposed to be consistent with cultural upbringing and values of international students, and Tape B proposed to by culturally discrepant. Two tapes were empirically shown to be significantly different from each other by counseling professionals as well as by counselor trainees. Both counseling perspectives…

Charted internalization of therapeutic relationships of 48 clients in short-term psychotherapy at 2 university counseling centers. Clients reported perceptions of counselor's actions and attitudes, own actions and attitudes toward counselors, and intrapsychic dispositions. Results suggest that clients internalized dispositions that they perceived…

Examines issues facing school counselors who work with students having disabilities, and suggests specific interventions. Offers perspectives of three counselors, one at a public elementary school, one at a public middle school, and the third at a residential school for deaf students. Emphasis is on inclusion of students with disabilities in…

Locus of control is demonstrated as being an important individual belief for counselors to consider in their work. The influence of western cultural bias on research and therapy using locus of control is considered; areas of related theory are reviewed. Selected research is reviewed; implications for practitioners are discussed. (Author/EMK)

Provides a comprehensive review of the professional literature on career counseling interventions with gay and lesbian clients. Interventions summarized were directed at counselors themselves, at counseling activities, and at social-community action. Provides recommendations on what research needs to be conducted to establish the area of gay and…

Client and counselor ratings of student distress were compared with MMPI-2 College Maladjustment (Mt) scale (Butcher, et al; 1989) score for 78 Canadian undergraduate students seeking counseling. Mt scores were consistent with subjective ratings of problem severity and accounted for more variance in client ratings of social and general functioning…

Investigated considerations of adolescents for self-referral to counselors as reported by high school students and school counselors. Counselor trustworthiness was cited as the most important factor by both groups; but counselors attributed more importance to gender and age, while adolescents emphasized counselor expertness. Discusses strategies…

Increasing numbers of counsellors practise using social constructionist (e.g. narrative, collaborative language systems and solution-focused) approaches. Social constructionist theory holds that matters such as "understanding" are constructed and upheld in human interaction though counselling approaches derived from this theory offer…

The authors present a qualitative analysis of a process by which a research team of counselors-in-training confronted their heterosexist biases while investigating heterosexual attitudes toward sexual minorities. Members of the research team discovered that it was essential to reflect on and evaluate their attitudes, assumptions, and biases before…

Approximately one million children are victims of maltreatment are assessed and placed in the child welfare system. The purpose of the current study was to identify caseworker perceptions of (a) reasons for youth removal from a home environment and (b) the parameters of intolerable problem categories that prompt such decisions. Four categories of…