Provides therapeutic guidelines to social workers working with adolescents involved in Satanism. Describes common goals of therapy and recommends family involvement. Concludes there is a further need for study concerning at-risk and assessment factors, and intervention alternatives since more adolescents are becoming involved in Satanic…

Discusses selected critical issues facing farmers who are now working and living on family farms and who are being forced or have been forced to pursue other occupations. Presents suggestions for career counselors who are interested in serving this group. (ABL)

Provides a brief overview of events that have contributed to the development of what currently constitutes disaster-crisis mental health counseling, an area of counseling that has gained increased clinical attention and empirical focus within the field of mental health counseling. (Author)

One aim of student evaluation of instruction is the improvement of teaching quality, but there is little evidence that student assessment of instruction alone improves teaching. This study tried to improve the effects of evaluation by combining evaluation with individual counselling in an institutional development approach. Evaluation was…

The counseling profession has increasingly embraced a medicalized vision of counseling processes. The latest manifestation of this vision is the best practices (BP) movement. This movement is critically examined to determine if it is consistent with the traditional values of the counseling profession. The author concludes that BP ideology is…

This article emphasizes the need for concrete descriptions of supervision to promote diversity-competent group work and presents an application of the supervision of group work model (SGW) to this end. The SGW, a supervision model adapted from the discrimination model, is uniquely suited for promoting diversity competence in group work, since it…

The thesis of this article is that factor analysis can serve as a useful heuristic procedure for isolating and operationally defining constructs in rehabilitation counseling. (Author)

Counselors are becoming more aware of the importance of working with large systems to bring about change that will influence individuals. In this article the author relates some of his early experiences as a young school counselor and suggests guidelines for bringing about change. (Author)

Points out the progress in the clinical literature in helping people deal with the event of death but argues there is great neglect in the literature regarding viewing death as a perspective, and its valuable clinical use. By referring to Heidegger's contributions to existential psychology, explains what is meant by this perspective and its…

Eight prevailing and destructive remarriage myths are identified and discussed. Suggestions are made to counselors for clinical application with the remarried. (Author)

An integrative framework based on work adjustment theory is discussed. Theoretical themes and the different needs of practitioners and researchers in vocational psychology are highlighted. (Author)

Examined a list of 19 therapist intentions in two studies. In Study 1 use of intentions was examined in 20 sessions of time-limited therapy. In Study 2 the list was used by 42 experienced therapists. Across both studies, the most frequently cited intentions were "insight,""clarify,""feelings," and "change."…

Develops a different perspective on the ethics of suicide, based on theoretical and clinical grounds. Suggests the need to shift from a search for an ethical statement about suicide (e.g., "rational suicide") to the ethical justification for intervention based on the needs and interests of an affirming therapeutic profession. (JAC)

This article proposes that the teacher and counselor are indistinguishable in their roles as learning consultants. Self learning and the process of understanding one's self in the tangential relationship of space, time, and matter become part of the counselor's purview and charge. (Author)

Without the election of personal choice (decision making) an individual's behavior would lack direction and would be mere random activity. Decision Counseling, therefore, is necessarily involved in all extended helping relationships, and only the timing of its inception or implementation must be determined. (Author)