Discusses the value of diagnostic classification systems to counseling professionals. Describes the Ecological Diagnostic Classification Plan, an approach to diagnosis that includes the environment as a possible cause of pathology and target of intervention. (Author/KS)

Describes Campbell Development Surveys, integrated battery of five surveys covering organizational satisfaction, leadership characteristics, interests and skills, team morale, and community life. Notes that all surveys have common set of features: identical item formats, homogeneous scoring scales, standard T scores, procedural checks, and similar…

Notes that, despite great contributions by Lawrence Kohlberg to understanding of moral development, counselors are only beginning to appreciate fully implications of his developmental psychology for practice of counseling and human development. Draws on collective body of Kohlberg's work to show how seven assumptions have direct relevance for…

Developed criteria for selection of career development program appropriate for mentally ill. Mentally ill persons who participated in Self-Directed Search (SDS) showed significant change on My Vocational Situation Identity Scale. Findings support selection of SDS as program and feasibility of offering career development services to mentally ill.…

Presents interview with Alexander Lowen, prominent psychotherapist, who discusses his personal and professional development, as well as the evolution of bioenergetic analysis. Includes a list of suggested readings by Lowen. (Author/NB)

Examines significant events that have influenced the personal and professional development of pioneers in the counseling field who have been interviewed in the "Journal of Counseling and Development." Presents some of the pioneers' observations and reflections about counselor training. (ABL)

Claims that meeting the health care needs of homosexual and bisexual teenagers has become public health imperative. Points out stigma of homosexuality often gives rise to psychosocial problems for teenagers in process of sexual identity development. Offers suggestions to support healthy development, assist recovery from stigma, and avert…

Describes some of the challenges facing counselor education faculties in the twenty-first century and why counselor training programs must be more assertive in addressing cultural competency issues as they relate to counseling theories, practice, and research. Provides strategies that may be used in program and curricula development. (Author/NB)

Presents developmental therapy as supplement to life span theory which can provide specific suggestions for clinical-counseling interventions that may be used to assess developmental level of clients, select counseling skills and theory to match client cognitive-developmental level, and obtain feedback on intervention effectiveness. Discusses…

Describes a three-day group dynamics workshop which became part of a three-week summer institute designed to address the affective needs of gifted and talented adolescents. Discusses the workshop which contained activities designed to prepare the adolescents for completing communication with retirees. (Author/ABL)

Responds to article by Dorn (1986) on career development in business and industry. Provides clarification regarding definition, job titles, job roles, and points of entry for behavioral science professionals. Emphasizes human resource development rather than more generic use of counseling or career development in business and industry. (Author)

Reviews and examines the professionalization, deprofessionalization, and reprofessionalization of rehabilitation counseling according to selected descriptors of professionalism. Presents recommendations designed to facilitate the continuation of rehabilitation counseling's professional development. (Author)

Presents demographic information about biracial persons, reviews previous models of racial identity development, discusses their shortcomings when applied to biracial persons, and presents new model of racial identity development focusing on unique aspects of the experience of biracial individual in the United States. Presents counseling…

Contends the time has come for counseling and development to claim its space as a first-class profession in its own right, distinct from but incorporating important aspects of the related professional disciplines of counseling psychology, clinical psychology, and social work. Attempts to define counseling and development. (ABL)

Examined therapist-counselor development by conducting in-depth, semistructured interviews with 100 participants. Twenty themes of therapist-counselor development fell within categories of primary characteristic themes, process descriptor themes, source of influence themes, and secondary characteristics themes. Professional development topics…