This case study describes a comprehensive program evaluation of a human service bachelor's degree program at a midsize, traditional university. The program evaluation model is describes, as well as the multiple methods used for gathering data. Critiques and recommendations are provided as advice to those interested in conducting their own program…

Forty former rehabilitation counseling clients returned a mail questionnaire that requested them to write descriptions of "ideal" and minimally qualified rehabilitation counselors. Relational values and qualities represented the most frequent categories for the ideal counselor descriptors; demographic characteristics were mentioned least. Broader…

A measure of dental patients' values and preferences was used to assess attitudes of 92 edentulous patients receiving implant and other dental reconstructive therapies. The implant group tended to be younger and better educated and to rate implant reconstruction as more desirable than the nonimplant denture group. (DB)

Administered Rokeach Value Survey (RVS) and confidence rating scale (CRS) to 13 psychotherapists and 62 clients. Results from RVS demonstrated therapists were more value stable than their clients and that clients shifted their value systems toward therapists' value configurations. Results from CRS indicated therapists were more confident than were…

Examined use of cash and in-kind benefits by vocational rehabilitation center clients (N=100) to determine effects of use of benefits for self-improvement or as maintenance. Found, although an overall disincentive effect was demonstrated with participants as a whole, participants who only paid for training demonstrated a bootstrap rather than a…

Describes how counselors can prepare for hearing problems among their older clients. Notes six ways to improve physical environment and suggests five behavioral techniques. Some useful group techniques are noted and threats to group cohesion are described. Four useful information sources are provided for further assistance in dealing with hearing…

Discusses seven self-defeating attitudinal factors contributing to client inaction and procrastination from the Morita therapist's perspective. Describes Morita therapy and ways of facilitating desirable action and reducing self-preoccupations. Claims the suggested approach challenges the client's assumption that resisting and removing unwanted…

Extended analog research on information about counselors' values and orientation needed for informed consent in counseling. Women (N=172) seeking treatment at a psychiatric hospital and clinic read either advertisement or explicit description of traditional or feminist counselor. Found simple label not adequate in triggering set of accurate…

Uses metaphor of the wedding in an arranged marriage to describe the process of using a network meeting to overcome resistance and engage a hostile adolescent and her family in a residential treatment program. Review of the literature is followed by description of a clinical case. Practical and theoretical issues are discussed. (Author/NB)

Compared 93 children and adolescents who completed psychotherapy with 60 who dropped out after intake. At intake, groups did not differ on demographic, family, or clinical measures, including Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL) scores. Six months and one year later, groups were compared again. No comparison showed significant main effects of therapy.…

Examines the empirical evidence on interventions for burnout in the helping professions, published between 1974 and 1986. Looks at research on coping strategies and studies on active interventions, including those evaluating organizational changes and the impact of burnout groups. (Author/NB)

Discusses the origins of the University of Oregon's 20-year-old Center for Gerontology, focusing on the center's accomplishments. Discusses the center's current design, including both the continuities and the changes that have characterized its development. (Author/BH)

Examines cross-cultural counseling (especially Western counselor-Eastern client) within a transpersonal psychological framework. Presents meta-model that allows counselors to adopt attitudes that transcend cultural differences. Notes that benefit of such a model to counselors would be superordinate framework in which various, specific counseling…

Argues for moral context in nursing education. Discusses steps taken at the University of Colorado School of Nursing to emphasize human caregiving in the curriculum. Also argues that the preferred future for nursing education is a postbaccalaureate program in human caring, health, and healing that leads to the nursing doctorate. (CH)

Presents description of one rehabilitation counseling client, examining her past experience and future goals. Information provided by the client in counseling sessions is discussed and plans for improving her situation are suggested. (NB)