Presents new system for describing, classifying, and coding problems of adult clients of social workers. Notes that new system uses organizing concept of "person-in-environment" (PIE) to describe social role; environmental, psychiatric, and health problems; and client strengths. Discusses concepts and theories incorporated into PIE…

Examined family and social-environmental problems reported by parents of 226 children seen at child guidance clinic. Results revealed relatively high frequency of family and social problems. Financial, school, employment, and housing problems were frequently reported, as were parental arguing and problems in dividing household chores. Problems…

Longitudinal study related characteristics of 214 sheltered-care facilities for mentally ill population, their residents, and communities to subsequent licensure and considered differences between licensed and unlicensed facilities at follow-up. Results indicated that, although licensure occurred with greater frequency among facilities serving…

Administered revised Beck Depression Inventory, Hopelessness Scale, Anxiety Inventory, and Scale for Suicide Ideation to 1,172 psychiatric outpatients. Classified subjects into 127 suicide ideators and 1,045 nonideators. Identified three types of nonideators (anxious depressed, hopeless depressed, and below-average overall symptomatology) and four…

Discusses internal conflict between professional and personal values that counselors can experience when working with clients whose culture and values are different from their own. Presents case study that illustrates situation. Suggests that, as counselors become more proficient in multicultural counseling and more able to promote decision making…

Describes effect of client resistance and reactance in counseling and methods for assessing these phenomena. Conceptualizes client symptoms as ego-syntonic, where symptom is consonant with client's self-image, or ego-dystonic, where it is not. Uses concepts in deriving counseling strategies for working with difficult clients according to model…

Because most children are involuntarily referred to counseling, counselors must expect resistance and accept it as reasonable reaction. Counselors engage children by explaining rules of counseling and gaining informed consent. Methods for securing commitment to change include indirect confrontation with puppets, media or stories, paradox and…

Calls career and personal counseling inextricably intertwined. Notes that career problems have strong emotional component. Suggests interpreting career indecision and procrastination as zeteophobia, fear of career exploration. Contends that trait and factor theory pictures career counseling as unrealistically simplistic. Suggests training all…

Describes three fictitious university counseling center clients who are struggling with career issues related to their personal development. Suggestions are given regarding ways to conceptualize their situations as well as methods of individualized career guidance. (Author/NB)

Presents modification of cost-benefit analysis, cost-cost comparison, as time-effective and simple intervention to help clients who are considering divorce to clarify their own values position, thus enabling clients to make workable decisions from within framework of their value system. Includes three case examples to illustrate model's…

Used match between problem and recommendation, difficulty level of recommendation, and degree to which recommendation was built on client's strengths to predict whether clients would implement treatment recommendation suggested by their counselor. Findings from 37 archived videotaped counseling sessions showed that strength, matching, and…

Four counselors in weight-control clinic interviewed 67 clients to examine relative effects of type of questions asked and of interviewer feedback on behavioral compliance. Found that clients who received positive feedback from their interviewers consistently complied more with interviewer requests and recommendations, including losing more weight…

Discusses the changes that have led to better services for families whose children have emotional and behavioral problems. Presents principles of family support developed by members of a national family organization and provides program examples and an in-depth description of the innovative Finger Lakes Family Support Project in New York State.…

Responds to major contribution on counseling with children (Wagner, this issue), calling it a compendium of activities that are traditionally ascribed to elementary school counselors, and criticizing it for avoiding the critical issues of the present decade. Sees disproportionately large amount of space devoted to divorce and calls for more…

Describes a method of teaching professional expository writing skills in which a teacher wrote to real professional people, some famous, and asked them to become "clients" for first-year student researchers by requesting specific information. Argues for the feasibility and success of this project. (HB)