Presents loss and grief as issues that require special understanding and skills from the counselor. Describes how one funeral home implemented an innovative response to loss involving death by inaugurating a thorough professional grief counseling program for its clientele and the community it serves. (Author)

Differentiates codependent from contradependent behavior and defines both in an interpersonal context. Proposes model to address gender issues, diagnosis, and treatment from an emotional health perspective. Assuming codependence and contradependence are actually caused by experiences of shame and victimization, suggests that treatment of these…

Presents a structured group model, using Yalom's curative factors, Parke's stages of grief, and Worden's tasks of grief resolution, which can be used to facilitate movement through the grief process for those bereaved by suicide. (Author/ABL)

Characteristics of current and emerging school counseling program models are reviewed, and their limitations and challenges in serving students' needs in the 21st century are enumerated. The authors discuss the implications for these models of recent advances in developmental theory and research and in positive psychology, along with the…

Presents summary of Inter-Domain Model applied to career assessment and counseling, which formally encompasses three major categories of variables: occupational interests, abilities, and personality characteristics. Reviews requirements of a theory of career assessment and discusses major components of the Inter-Domain Model. (Author/NB)

Reviews and critiques the research and theory on sex, gender roles, and the process of therapy. Offers a new paradigm through which to view and conduct this research. Suggests a number of potentially fruitful directions for future research. (Author/ABL)

Proposes a consultative model for use by professionals who work with older adults, recognizing the rapidly increasing number of aging individuals in the United States and the difficulties encountered by these people. Proposes an example of content for possible inclusion in the consultative process for use in decision making. (Author/ABL)

Reviews empirical investigations that followed the Kluckholn and Strodbeck model of value-orientations. Includes overview of importance of cultural values, followed by description of Kluckholn and Strodbeck's theory of value-orientations. The review finds between-group as well as within-group variations in cultural values. Discusses how an…

Kolb's experiential learning theory offers the career counselor a meta-model with which to structure career exploration exercises and ensure a thorough investigation of self and the world of work in a manner that provides the client with an optimal amount of learning and personal development. (Author)

Discusses addictive model of compulsive sex among some homosexual men. Describes commonalities between two most prevalent and successful approaches used to treat this disorder: group treatment and self-help Twelve Step addictive model. Contends that, whether compulsive sexual behavior is accepted as an addiction, the addictive model itself seems…

Depicts a sample genogram, a three-generational graphic representation of a client's family of origin. Outlines a three-part approach for use of a genogram in career counseling, suggesting possible uses. (Author/KS)

Addresses nature, severity, and prevalence of abuse in lesbian relationships. Analyzes current counseling and treatment models dealing with battering relationships. Suggests counselor advocacy model for working with lesbian partner abuse, drawing from the experience of activists in the battered women's movement and clinical experience. (Author/ABL)

Notes that incorporation of stress management within counseling process requires a theoretical framework for examining clients' perceptions of their coping capabilities as they experience difficulty with stressful life events. Presents framework based on learned helplessness, called systematic rationalization. Discusses empirical support and…

Discusses Career-Development Assessment and Counseling model, which implements current development theory and uses innovative assessment measures and improved counseling methods to improve vocational and life career counseling. Focuses on assessment, treating interests and preferences as basic status data to be viewed in light of career maturity,…

Using American Psychological Association Division 17 position paper on cross-cultural counseling competencies as organizing framework, provides overview of various cross-cultural counseling training models and points to need to go beyond sensitivity training to actually providing culture-specific knowledge in training models. Presents…