This chapter focuses on practical assessments for family interventions, geared for the everyday use of counselors, therapists, and other clinicians. Two types of assessments are addressed: process assessments and outcomes assessments. A process assessment looks at the process of counseling, specifically how satisfied or dissatisfied the client is…

This article points out some situations in which counselors are likely to encounter the topic of death as a client concern (in counseling young children and adolescents, in rehabilitation settings, drug crisis clinics, runaway houses, etc.). An initial framework for providing therapeutic services to such clients is outlined. (Author/EAK)

The client-worker contract is potentially a dynamic tool that can contribute substantially to the effective outcome of social work intervention. It can be used to clarify objectives and encourage clients to participate in the entire process of intervention. (Authors)

A case study is presented through which a counselor in the role of teacher consultant, shares guidelines, methods and procedures that facilitated change in the classroom behavior of an elementary school teacher. The methods were based on the contingency management principles of positive consequences and the sequential steps of behavioral control…

Drawing on the insights of Ruth Benedict and Abraham Maslow in their search for an ethical gauge by which to rate personal-social health, this article proposes synergistic man'' as the desired outcome model for counselors. (Author)

Article describes a drug abuse prevention program conducted by school counselors with ninth grade students. While results are mixed, they do give the practicing counselor some direction in which to move. (Editor)

Presents behavioral rationale for guidance in terms of general pupil needs and in terms of specific types of educational circumstances. (Author)

The performance of the competent pupil personnel worker fills the void between administrative and instructional functions that seemingly cannot be filled by achievement of guidance objectives alone. (Author)

If counselors are to listen to the forces for social change with open minds, they must first evaluate their own life styles. Changing oneself necessarily involves engaging in risk taking behaviors, searching for new stimuli, seeking the unfamiliar. (Author)

Counselors will have to organize to train themselves beyond the very institutions which spawned them, and they need an experiential organization to do it. (Author)

Based on primary sources published in the Soviet Bloc, this article compares the stated goals of Marxist guidance with actual outcomes, and identifies the foundations of guidance in the Soviet Bloc in terms of Marxist philosophy and social doctrine. Current symptoms of ideological unrest in socialist society as exemplified by the suppressed reform…

Deals with the relationship between philosophy and counseling theory as outlined in a metatheoretical model. The model's implications for comparing theories and value orientations are also reviewed. This dialog serves an educational purpose and ensures an arena where counselors continually evaluate the status quo in a cultural context. (JAC)

Discusses the application of a reality therapy paradigm for counseling disabled clients. Short-term counseling using a reality therapy framework provided a favorable balance between counselor direction and client acceptance of responsibility. (Author)