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Silver, Rawley A. – 1991
This book describes the use of drawing in therapy. Stimulus drawings (SDs) and techniques were developed in the 1960s for use with deaf children at a time when manual communication was forbidden in their schools. During the 1970s, the drawings were expanded for use with learning-disabled children, adult stroke-patients, and others with…
Descriptors: Art Expression, Art Therapy, Creative Expression, Evaluation
Copeland, Camille C.; And Others – 1994
Listening requires a great awareness of self, words, facial expressions, body language, tone of voice, and eye contact. This article examines the importance of these factors in the development of the therapeutic relationship. Among some of the characteristics of effective listening treated here are qualities within the client/therapist…
Descriptors: Attention, Counseling Effectiveness, Counseling Techniques, Counselor Attitudes
Morse, Philip S. – 1991
A study analyzed the extent to which writing teachers in conferencing situations employ the communication techniques used by professional helping agents. A metatheory of communication techniques developed by Allen Ivey and associates which attempts to combine and synthesize the relevant psychotherapeutic and counseling techniques in the profession…
Descriptors: Communication Research, Communication Skills, Communication (Thought Transfer), Counseling
Pretzer, James L. – 1983
Historically, the literature on psychotherapy with borderline personality disorder has been based on object-relations theory or psychoanalytical approaches, rather than cognitive and behavioral approaches. In clinical assessment, the term borderline has been used to refer to patients with both neurotic and psychotic symptoms, a particular type of…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Restructuring, Counseling Objectives
Fraenkel, William A. – 1990
One clinical psychologist worked with terminally ill, end-stage Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) patients in a hospice type setting for an 18-month time period. Interventions included individual psychotherapy, mental status assessments, staff group sessions, and supportive services for families and significant others. During that time,…
Descriptors: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, Client Characteristics (Human Services), Clinical Psychology, Counseling Techniques
Birky, Ian – 1982
To explore the relationship between pre-therapy information and perceptions of therapy by prospective clients, a total of 192 black subjects and white subjects, equally divided by race and sex, were presented pre-therapy information, observed an initial therapy session, and then rated the therapist and predicted the overall therapy duration.…
Descriptors: Blacks, College Students, Counselor Evaluation, Counselor Qualifications
Schmedlen, George W.; And Others – 1987
A key task for the therapist in psychotherapy is to build trust and rapport with the client. Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) practitioners believe that matching the sensory modality (representational system) of a client's predicates (verbs, adverbs, and adjectives) improves rapport. In this study, 16 volunteer subjects participated in two…
Descriptors: Client Characteristics (Human Services), College Students, Counseling Techniques, Counselor Client Relationship
Baer, Melanie – 1986
With the addition of the Board of Ethnic Minority Affairs to the American Psychological Association and the observation that greater numbers of ethnic minorities are seeking psychological treatment, a growing area of research has been related to ethnic issues in psychotherapy. Many empirical studies have been conducted comparing psychotherapy…
Descriptors: Client Characteristics (Human Services), Counseling Effectiveness, Counselor Characteristics, Counselor Client Relationship
Pakizegi, B. – 1985
A developmental dialectical approach to understanding and working with lower and middle class damaged parents--those identified as abusive and neglectful--has specific features and implications. The approach suggests that (1) the personality characteristics and interpersonal relations of parents are inseparable from their social conditions; (2)…
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Child Neglect, Intervention, Locus of Control
Coleman, Marion Tolbert – 1988
Casa de Esperanza, Incorporated, is a program which provides residential care to severely disturbed children, ages birth to 6 years. The philosophy of the program is to provide care to the disturbed child and counseling to the parents so that the child may return to the parental home once the crisis is past. The children are cared for in shelter…
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Counseling Services, Emotional Disturbances, Family Problems
Teitelman, Jodi L.; Priddy J. Michael – 1985
Learned helplessness often precedes depression. The elderly are more likely than the general population to be faced with uncontrollable events which may bring on learned helplessness. Intervention by gerontological counselors has been useful in reducing effects of helplessness. With pseudohelplessness, persons act helpless in order to control…
Descriptors: Counseling Techniques, Counselor Client Relationship, Counselor Role, Helplessness
Rosen, Carl L. – 1982
The disabled reader's measurably low success in processing print creates tension, stress, and increasingly negative perceptions of the reading act and of the reader's own beliefs about his or her personal competencies. The task of the reading specialist might be facilitated by conscious and increasingly skilled application of psychotherapeutic…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Disabilities, Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Theories
Billingsley, Donna; And Others – 1982
Since a 1970 study found differential mental health standards for men and women, studies evaluating the impact of such standards on psychotherapy treatment plans have been mixed. Two recent investigations were designed to correct for earlier problems in archival research, and a third was designed to correct for the analogue problem of using…
Descriptors: Counseling Effectiveness, Counseling Techniques, Counselor Characteristics, Counselor Client Relationship
Strickler, Edwin – J Learning Disabilities, 1969
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Case Records, Emotional Problems, Exceptional Child Services
Greenspan, Stanley I., Ed.; Pollock, George H., Ed. – 1980
This volume is the second in "The Course of Life" series which contains original contributions from an international group of scientists and clinicians who have produced much of current knowledge about the phases of human personality development. These contributions cover the continuum of human development from the prenatal phase through…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Adolescents, Adults, Developmental Stages
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