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Doing Counseling: Developing Your Clinical Skills and Style
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Austin, Jude T., II; Austin, Julius A. – American Counseling Association, 2023
This pragmatic book explains the "how" of integrating counselor training into practice by bridging the gap between educational knowledge, clinical skill, and counselor identity. Drs. Jude and Julius Austin combine their personal and professional experiences with contributions from other skilled clinicians to break down the counseling…
Descriptors: Counselor Training, Skill Development, Counseling Techniques, Counselor Characteristics
Factors that Influence Outcomes for Clients with an Intellectual Disability
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Raffensperger, Marilyn K. – British Journal of Guidance & Counselling, 2009
Is counseling effective for clients with an intellectual disability? This question hovers in the minds of busy practitioners who question not only the ability of these clients to derive benefit from counseling but also their own ability to provide an effective service. However, this simplistic binary question does not do justice to the…
Descriptors: Mental Retardation, Performance Factors, Counseling Effectiveness, Outcomes of Treatment
The Client's Perspective on Forming a Counselling Alliance and Implications for Research on Counsellor Training
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Bedi, Robinder P.; Davis, Michael D.; Arvay, Marla J. – Canadian Journal of Counselling, 2005
The present study examined the client's perspective on what helps form and strengthen the counselling alliance and aims to provide a preliminary catalogue of concrete client-identified alliance-building factors. Nine participants (four males, five females) currently or previously in counselling were interviewed using the Critical Incident…
Descriptors: Counselor Training, Counselor Client Relationship, Counselor Characteristics, Counseling Techniques
Treated Sex Offenders as "Paraprofessional" Co-Workers in the Treatment of the Sex Offender
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Hossack, Alex; Robinson, Julie – Journal of Sexual Aggression, 2005
This paper will briefly review the utilization of the paraprofessional in a community-based sex offender treatment programme in Merseyside, UK. The paraprofessionals are treated paedophiles in the role of treatment co-facilitators. Further thoughts on the role dynamic, training issues and supervision are discussed. This is an example of…
Descriptors: Sexual Abuse, Foreign Countries, Criminals, Counseling Techniques
Conceptualizing a Case of Indirect Racism Using the White Racial Identity Development Model.
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Daniels, Jeffrey A. – Journal of Mental Health Counseling, 2001
Describes how counselors might use a model of White racial identity development to conceptualize and treat a White client who has experienced racism directed toward his ethnic minority friend. Specific attention is paid to both the client's and the counselor's White racial statuses and how these interact within the counseling process. (Contains 15…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Client Characteristics (Human Services), Counseling Techniques, Counselor Characteristics
Relationship Group Therapy: A Short Term Approach with Children.
Kairey, Isaac; Freeman, Robert W. – 1981
A new short-term (14-16 sessions) group therapy approach for children, Relationship Group Therapy (RGT), is described. The major group therapy approaches are critiqued and the integration of certain assumptions from each approach are discussed. Stages of RGT therapy and the specific interventions required during various stages of therapy are…
Descriptors: Children, Counseling Techniques, Counseling Theories, Counselor Characteristics