Presents a plan for counseling services for the client described in previous article (Johnson, 1990). Discusses client's counseling needs and presents a plan which includes assessing career interests and self-efficacy. Recommends client examine his value system. Concludes client's issues are more complicated than whether or not to accept a…

Assessed relation between conceptual system functioning and expectations about counseling by linking client expectations to a stable personality dimension and providing the conceptual system model, rather than the conceptual level, as the theoretical rationale in 60 counseling clients. Results support need to consider influence of conceptual…

Discusses several misconceptions about correctional counseling, focusing on the desired goals of correctional counseling, the amount of such counseling, client motivation, counselor credentials, counseling theories, and the counseling environment. Presents a new perspective and suggests that standards need to be established concerning what…

Examined time-limited therapies provided by two therapists to two clients to discover relations between clients' understanding of therapists' intentions and episode level outcome, similarities and differences between the participants' valuing of different intentions, and shifts in intentions valued from beginning to end of therapy. Documented some…

Notes that older persons underuse community-based and outpatient mental health services, yet are overrepresented in inpatient facilities. Argues for increased programing targeted for elderly client. Advocates use of multimodal model as efficient method of service delivery and provides sample case study using BASIC ID (Behavior, Affect, Sensation,…

Investigated effectiveness of paradoxical and nonparadoxical interventions with clients (N=53) possessing a high or low sense of humor. Found low sense of humor subjects improved significantly more with a paradoxical intervention than did high sense of humor subjects. (Author/ABL)

Discusses Epstein-Barr Viral Syndrome, a puzzling and controversial disease with a variety of symptoms that frequently include depression and emotional debilitation. Offers diagnostic signs and suggests a possible treatment strategy based on the multimodal approach. (Author/ABL)

Examined referral activities of 373 agencies with regard to health care, educational, and social services for adolescents. Approximately 66 percent of responding agencies received referrals and 87 percent made referrals, with counseling and psychiatry, family planning, and general medical care being most commonly sought services. Social service…

Reviews 3 theoretical models of client resistance in counseling: anxiety control, noncompliance, and negative social influence. Describes 22 commonly observed client resistance behaviors in 4 separate categories: response quantity resistance, response content resistance, response style resistance, and logistic management resistance. (Author/ABL)

Examines various therapeutic approaches to Vietnam veterans and gives specific consideration to the implications for religious counselors working with this population. (Author)

The author discusses the applicability of and the need for Freirian pedagogy in the rehabilitation of former inmates. She discusses her applications of this approach at My Brother's Place, a halfway house for chronic offenders. A discussion of special learning issues is included. (CH)

Notes that Managed Care, in health and mental health services, is latest building block presented as necessary for development of organized human services system. Identifies health maintenance organizations (HMOs) as fastest growing element in such systems. Attempts to collate latest information as to how mental health and substance abuse care is…

Reviews the literature on knowledge diffusion and provides examples from two successful technology transfer projects in Pennsylvania. Presents concrete, specific steps that can guide innovators in the human services, and provides principles that can enlighten the way in which managers and service providers introduce and nurture changes in human…

Examines four aspects of stories/storytelling as they relate to life, to definition of stories, to therapy in general, and to family therapy in particular. Presents excerpts from wide variety of sources with little commentary included. Notes that selection of particular pieces for inclusion and elimination of others necessarily make a statement.…

Undergraduates (n=208) with at least an eight-point difference between the first and second letters of their Holland type code completed the Self-Directed Search and Vocational Counseling Preference Inventory. Significant preference differences appeared among personality types in terms of counseling framework, career aspirations, and decision…