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Silverman, Wade H. – 1999
This article reviews seven trends that were identified several years ago that have impacted the field of psychotherapy, especially such estimated changes as psycho-economics, managed care, wellness promotion, gender, and elderly care. Six new trends are described that are emerging and are leading the profession into the future: psychotherapy…
Descriptors: Counseling Psychology, Counselor Client Relationship, Cultural Pluralism, Gerontology
DaGiau, Bette – 1999
One of the most pressing issues that high school counselors encounter is the use of alcohol and other substance abuse among adolescents. This paper explores five major reasons that adolescents give for using alcohol and other drugs. It includes discussions on how peer interactions and the adolescent's search for identity influence the decision to…
Descriptors: Counselor Role, Drinking, Family Counseling, Family Influence
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Paradise, Louis V.; Kramer, Harriet, Eds. – Counseling and Values, 1981
Presents special topics on ethical concerns in six articles on various counseling disciplines including ethics in theory and practice, group work, testing, counselor education, children, mental health work, legal issues, and psychotherapy. Suggests professional practitioners consider philosophical issues to enhance moral thinking and behavior.…
Descriptors: Child Welfare, Codes of Ethics, Counseling Objectives, Counseling Techniques
Tucker, Carolyn M.; And Others – Journal of Non-White Concerns in Personnel and Guidance, 1981
Presents strategies for counselors working with Black clients. Suggests awareness of potential barriers to effective counseling enables the therapist to gear the initial sessions toward overcoming these obstacles and thus make early observations of tangible therapeutic gains. Proposes such advances are important in overcoming client skepticism and…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Black Attitudes, Blacks, Counseling Effectiveness
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Holloway, Elizabeth; Carroll, Michael – Journal of Counseling Psychology, 1996
Both the postpositivistic (Ellis, Ladany, Krengel, and Schult, 1996; Ladany, Hill, Corbett, and Nutt, 1996) and interpretive (Neufeldt, Karno, and Nelson, 1996; Worthen and McNeill, 1996) studies in this special section on supervision research are reviewed from the perspective of rigor and relevancy to the critical questions facing educators and…
Descriptors: Adults, Clinical Supervision (of Teachers), Communication Skills, Counselor Educators
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Kutash, Krista; Rivera, Vestena Robbins – Education and Treatment of Children, 1995
Individual effectiveness studies and reviews of studies are described for eight mental health service components for children and adolescents with severe emotional disturbances and their families. Components discussed include residential services, outpatient services, day treatment services, crisis and emergency management services, case…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Children, Coping, Crisis Intervention
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McKenzie, Mark – American Educational History Journal, 2004
The stages of life are now many, each having its own boundaries, logic, and a prescribed perspective of appropriate relations amongst and between members of the many stages. Just as there is a developing curriculum for the young, there is a developing curriculum in the area of elder care. Within the paradigm of staged human development, the end…
Descriptors: Developmental Stages, United States History, Geriatrics, Gerontology
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Libretto, Salvatore; Nemes, Susanna; Namur, Jenny; Garrett, Gerald; Hess, Lauren; Kaplan, Linda – Journal of Teaching in the Addictions, 2005
In a study to evaluate the drug treatment and aftercare efforts sponsored by the State Department's International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs Bureau, residential Therapeutic Community (TC) treatment programs in three countries in Southeast Asia--Malaysia, Singapore, and Thailand--were examined to identify promising practices and to…
Descriptors: Substance Abuse, Narcotics, Focus Groups, Law Enforcement
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Van Stelle, Kit R.; Moberg, D. Paul – Journal of Offender Rehabilitation, 2004
The current study assessed the effectiveness of a prison-based substance abuse treatment therapeutic community (TC) providing treatment to male inmates dually diagnosed with both substance abuse and mental health disorders. The findings show a short-term impact of the program on arrest after release, with program participants significantly less…
Descriptors: Substance Abuse, Therapeutic Environment, Psychotherapy, Mental Disorders
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Williams, D. J. – Journal of Offender Rehabilitation, 2003
A major function of the helping professions is to promote quality of life (QOL) for all people. Since this concept is commonly embodied in ethics codes within the various human services, it can be easy for professionals to assume that clients share the same perceptions of our function. However, when working with offenders, this assumption, along…
Descriptors: Sexual Abuse, Correctional Institutions, Quality of Life, Questionnaires
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Mobayed, Mamoun – Child Care in Practice, 2004
Post traumatic stress disorder is the psychological reaction to various traumas. It is common among children living in war zones or conflict regions. This paper describes a field visit to train mental health professionals in the West Bank and Gaza Strip on how to help traumatised children.
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Violence, Social Problems, Social Change
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Cant, Diana – Journal of Child Psychotherapy, 2005
This paper looks at the role of individual psychotherapy with a severely sexually abused girl in a therapeutic community, and the place of this work as she makes the transition into foster-care. It emphasizes the importance, not only of the individual work, but also of the drawing together of the work around the child, particularly at such a…
Descriptors: Therapeutic Environment, Correctional Rehabilitation, Psychotherapy, Foster Care
Cobain, Bev – 1998
This guide provides adolescents with information on depression. An introduction discusses symptoms of depression and lists famous people who were known to be depressed. Part 1, "What's Wrong," explores how it feels to be depressed, the causes and types of depression, and the connections between depression, suicide, and drug and alcohol abuse. A…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Alcohol Abuse, Cognitive Processes, Depression (Psychology)
Pakizegi, B. – 1985
This paper examines the relevance of social structure, in terms of class, race, and gender, in the lives of damaged parents of low power positions who abuse or neglect their children. The predominant view in the understanding and treatment of abusive parents stresses the parent's poor childhood experiences and the "intergenerational…
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Child Neglect, Developmental Psychology, Family Characteristics
Westermeyer, Joseph; And Others – 1988
This paper, the second in a series, focuses on the content of the diagnostic interview, in a clinical context, with refugee patients who have been victimized by physical violence. It is organized around a list of 11 introductory questions that will facilitate discussion of traumatic events in the patient's past. The questions focus on: (1)…
Descriptors: Asian Americans, Clinical Diagnosis, Counselor Training, Cross Cultural Training
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