Reviews current status of gerontological counseling specialty within counselor education. Notes that nationally endorsed competencies, certification process, and standards for specialty training in gerontological counseling have been developed and approved. Considers implementation of gerontological counseling specialty in counselor education.…

Synthesizes existing literature on group counseling and psychotherapy with Asian Americans. Provides some guidelines on how to prevent premature terminations among these clients. Concludes that success with Asian American clients in group counseling and psychotherapy will rest largely on the group leader's ability and willingness to acquire…

Investigated treatment outcome differences based on timing of counselor contact in the use of computer information delivery system. Findings from 48 adult clients revealed significant differences between scores for postintervention counseling and control groups on Career Decision Scale and significant differences between postintervention and…

Asked college counseling center directors to identify dilemmas that they experienced, or knew others had experienced, in daily practice, and to indicate which ethical problems were most difficult to resolve. Findings from 28 directors revealed that most difficult ethical problems to resolve in university counseling centers were confidentiality…

Notes, when client, counselor, and those in client's relevant environments hold differing conceptions of disability, and hence conflicting expectations of the rehabilitation process, that process may be impeded. Proposes an approach to conceptualizing this potential problem using Hershenson's model of faith, logic, and power as successive…

Used cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT), with religious content (RCT) or without (NRCT), to treat 59 depressed patients. RCT and pastoral counseling patients reported significantly lower posttreatment depression and adjustment scores than did either NRCT or control group. CBT differences were due largely to superior performance of nonreligious…

Reviews existing studies of use of formal care by families of Alzheimer's sufferers with special attention to findings relevant to access, particularly perceptions of appropriateness and acceptability or consistency with other needs and values. Applied conceptual model represented by these findings to narrative that serves as proxy for real case.…

Notes that spirituality and religion are often related to issues clients raise in therapy. Discusses overlap of therapeutic and religious worlds. Considers how some therapists are dealing with this interface. Outlines several ways religious issues can be integrated into family therapy training programs within larger existing framework of training…

Notes that some children and adolescents display what might be called "negative resilience" in that they are intractable to almost all efforts of adults to mold or redirect them. Sixteen-year-old Kevin describes how he furiously fought all efforts to change him and how he found courage to turn his life around. (Author/NB)

Considers counseling services for international college students. Uses critical incidents collected while counseling international students at University of Minnesota to demonstrate typical problems encountered and to suggest approaches to managing problems. Suggests that informal methods and informal counseling contexts become especially…

Notes that many counselors and counseling psychologists have received little training with regard to lesbian and gay issues. Presents ways in which these issues can and should be incorporated into counseling psychology training programs. Academic and internship training are addressed, followed by discussion of importance of safe and appropriate…

Responds to previous four articles on counseling lesbians and gay men. Focuses remarks on issues pertaining to training of counseling psychologists. Asserts that integration of gay and lesbian affirmative material into courses requires that instructors themselves possess requisite knowledge and belief that such material is legitimate and…

This paper contrasts the rhetoric of quality assurance with the realities of poor quality in today's Intermediate Care Facilities for the Mentally Retarded (ICF/MR). The ICF/MR operational model is described as paper oriented, failure based, and insensitive to the effects of its own practices. Recommendations include the establishment of local…

This paper discusses regulations and voluntary standards within the context of organizational mission and management leadership for quality in human services. Regulation is seen as a measure of organizational formalism; formalism is seen as an attribute of the machine organization; and both are contrasted to organic control organization models and…

Proposes a conceptual framework for understanding the immigration experience. Outlines critical variables in the departure (premigration), transit, and resettlement stages of migration. Includes examples from the experiences of Soviet Jewish immigrants. Discusses changes in Soviet and U.S. policies that affect immigrant adaptation and delivery of…