Study examines "Professional School Counseling" to determine the type of material this flagship journal has included. Additionally, the inquiry was expanded to survey school counselors regarding their research interests and the most widely accessed sources of research information for this group. (Contains 10 references and 5 tables.) (GCP)

Examines differences between professional work setting, gender, and ethnicity, and attitudes toward brief and nontraditional therapeutic approaches. Results indicated that practitioners of minority classification, males, and individuals employed in private practice held more favorable attitudes toward brief therapeutic approaches, and ethnic…

Examines school counselors' perceptions regarding the importance of the Council for the Accreditation of Counseling and Related Educational Programs school counseling standards. Results identified four underlying factors in the standards: program development, implementation and evaluation; counseling and guidance knowledge and skills; contextual…

Surveys Masters Addictions Counselors (MACs) to identify which standardized assessment instruments were most frequently used by MACs and perceived to be most important in their substance abuse practices. This article describes survey results and provides training and practice recommendations. (Contains 22 references.) (GCP)

The authors conducted qualitative analyses of 10 counseling leaders' accounts of turning points in their professional development, turning points that led them to become leaders. The participants' explanations provided support for applying the planned happenstance theory of career development to leadership development. (Contains 11 references and…

Examined expectations of psychotherapists (N=68) using specific response modes to short written transcripts of therapy sessions under conditions of either high or low self-awareness. Analyses showed no difference between high and low self-awareness group and no significant relationships between self-rating of subjects and ratings of peers, or any…

Explores role played by personality attributes of family therapist in facilitating and or inhibiting one's adherence to variety of approaches to family practice using experienced family therapists (N=156). Found personality attributes of family therapist did play role in predicting adherence to belief and action systems unique to particular…

Explores ways in which values can interact with a variety of counseling variables to either facilitate or impede the therapeutic process. Focuses on the role of value assumptions within such areas as counselor-client interactions, psychometrics, career services, and the transportability of counseling theories across national boundaries. (Author/BH)

Contains five personal accounts: (1) "From Intern to Senior Staff: Movement toward Self-Nurturance" (William Holahan); (2) "Toward the Emergence of Professional Identity" (Marya Barey Kyril); (3) "Selling My Private Practice: When Less is More" (Lynn Rew); (4) "Mid-Life Career Change: Taking the Plunge" (Richard Weigel); and (5) "A Chance…

Investigated elementary school counselors' (N=130) perceptions of aspects of their ideal and actual daily work. The results revealed that three of the five highest ranked actual role items involved consultant functions, two involved individual counseling with students. Ideally, counselors reported they would like to help teachers help students.…

Certified clinical members (n=128) of American Association of Marital and Family Therapists rated their level of development of techniques to assist clients in forgiving themselves, forgiving others, and seeking forgiveness for wrongdoing. Therapists' openness to client religiosity and therapist age explained approximately 26% of variance. Gender,…

Applying Kluckhorn's Value-Orientation model using the Intercultural Values Inventory with counseling practitioners, the author hypothesized that practitioners would endorse alternatives within value orientations according to their counseling orientation and, as a group, endorse certain alternatives within value orientations over others.…

In Georgia high schools with agriculture programs, responses from 133 of 170 guidance counselors indicated that most felt agriculture had benefits. Those who perceived their schools' programs to be of high quality supported agriculture's relevance for college-bound students and were more likely to place students in agriculture programs. As a…

Studied counselors' identification of seven commonly employed counselor response modes. Found that counselors tended to identify most of response modes in multifaceted manner that included high-level identities indicative of why response mode is employed and low-level identities concerned with how response mode is executed. Findings suggest that…

Contends that helpers are often overly attentive to client deficits/pathology to detriment of acknowledging family and other client strengths/resources. Notes that family therapists must remain vigilant to pathologizing. Describes experiences that heightened awareness for author, followed by illustration of importance and benefit of therapists…