There is an opportunity for men to give and receive counsel with other men with the men's consciousness-raising (CR) movement. This article describes a men's CR program that encourages men to explore ideas, feelings, and values in a noncompetitive and trusting atmosphere. Self-disclosure, competition, and affection are identified. (Author)

Summarizes an activity designed to remind counselors of language patterns that enable clients to re-create their conception of reality and claim their inherent personal power. The multiple choice activity presents examples of ways counselors can help clients choose language that expresses personal control. (JAC)

Describes how a workshop for career women (N=20) faced with a conflict over the motherhood decision was designed, conducted, and evaluated. Review of data suggested that the workshop increased awareness of positive and negative aspects of both choice alternatives, providing a realistic and informed vantage point for decision making. (LLL)

Describes a new tool, "Puzzle Pieces of Your World," that has been effective in exploring clients' decision making patterns. Presents a rationale and description of the tool, provides guidelines for using it, and gives examples of results found when using this strategy in life-career planning programs. (Author)

Describes the development and implementation of structured group programs concerning men's roles. Provides an outline of a workshop and reviews three examples of structured programing designed to help men become aware of their sex-role socialization and learn a new definition of manhood. (LLL)

Suggests that counselors can help discouraged people regain their sense of strength and potential to cope with their problems. Describes various techniques for doing this including reliving earlier success, creating images of successful performance, and identifying with people who have risen above their circumstances. (JAC)

Paradoxical intention helps clients separate themselves from their neurotic symptoms. The client is instructed to exaggerate the symptom and finds, paradoxically, the symptom occurs less. In provocative exaggeration symptoms are described so as to evoke laughter at the very symptom that causes anxiety. (Author)

Describes a delinquency prevention program where young boys were taken to jail following minor law offenses. With a counselor, they talked to police and prisoners about what it was like to be in jail. None of the 19 children who participated committed any serious crimes in the six years since the program began. (JAC)

Describes how metaphors can be used in a weight control approach to: (1) uncover underlying feelings; (2) reveal hidden solutions; (3) create an aversion to undesirable intakes; (4) provide the client with a thin self-concept; and (5) increase compliance. Provides examples to demonstrate these uses. (Author/RC)

Describes a structured group program called Depression Management Training (DMT). The purpose of DMT is to provide an intensive, interactive experience to participants who have problems handling recurrent, episodic depression. Suggests DMT increases participants' awareness of multidimensional sources of depression and enhances their coping…

Describes a career counseling workshop for Black women featuring the model-mentor process. Overall reaction to the workshop was positive and suggested the workshop could serve as an alternative career intervention for Black women in predominantly White universities. (JAC)

Describes a workshop on burnout especially designed for telephone counselors. Workshops help counselors explore the personal, professional, and organizational factors that are important in understanding and coping with this burnout. (Author/RC)

Presents illustrative calls received at a metropolitan telephone counseling center. Discusses the advantages of this technique including accessibility, and anonymity. Also discusses limitations of the method. (RC)

Provides a brief overview of the rationale of death-oriented seminars, and summary description of a typical death education class including specific interventions, activities, and resources. (JAC)

Describes a process for using the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator with career clients who are test aware and test expected, or referred by colleagues. Suggest that the MBTI as an option to the Strong Campbell Interest Inventory may avoid dealing with specific career titles too early. (Author/JAC)