Describes and evaluates a workshop developed to enhance the expertise of service providers who work with gay and lesbian adolescents. (Author)

The accountability and reform movements in education and the human services professions have pressured counselors to demonstrate outcomes of counseling programs and services. Evaluation models developed for large-scale evaluations are generally impractical for counselors to implement. Counselors require practical models to guide them in planning…

Increased general interest among counselors in the way language, narratives, and stories influence clients' personal and social realities has drawn particular attention to metaphorical language and its facilitative role in counseling. Suggests that metaphors and metaphorical knowing may play a significant role in facilitating at least five…

Because of the increasing number of people with disabilities, counselors of all specialties and theoretical orientations will be called on to provide services to clients with disabilities. The authors present a brief overview of 4 major models of disability to provide an introduction to the varying definitions and causal and responsibility…

Presents a model of conceptualization and intervention for juvenile delinquency. Model includes the characteristics of the adolescent, ecological context in which the adolescent lives, and the interaction among these variables. Describes a specific integrated service, training, and research project based on the model. The project utilizes a…

The variables most related to success in counseling are the client-counselor relationship and the client's personal resources. Discusses the "specificity myth," which purports that there are specific treatments for particular groups of people. Highlights person-centered counseling as a method that cuts to the core of therapeutic success: the…

Describes a culturally sensitive and relevant therapeutic framework for nonminority and minority counselors working with clients of Mexican-American heritage. Uses Lazarus's multimodal approach as the basis. Examines the current status of Mexican-American mental health service delivery and use. (Author/ABB)

Describes a career counseling strategy based on specific psychosocial characteristics of battered women. Describes the approach as developmental, focusing on the client's self-concept. Proposes a group format to assist the clients in developing appropriate life and career-decision making skills. (Author/ABB)