This article discusses transpersonal approaches to counseling with emphasis on the possibilities of using suggestion, relaxation, hypnosis, imagery, and dreams. (Author)

Encourages an expansion of the counselor's role through an evaluation of the efficacy of certain cognitive training procedures in teaching young children skills for interpersonal problem solving. (Author)

Presents an Emotionality-Rationality-Activity model that integrates recent classifications of counseling and psychotherapy. The model also serves as a theoretical basis from which methods, goals, and processes during counseling, psychotherapy, and training can be derived and integrated. (Author)

Theorizes that there are two primary dimensions or continua along which delays or dysfunctions may occur in career decision making: the decided/undecided state and the decisiveness/indecisiveness trait. Suggest that the combination of the two dimensions yields four distinct diagnostic categories which demonstrate the need for differential…

Presents a conceptual framework for organizing existing ideas about adult change. Discusses common themes in adult development theory and suggests uses and limitations of adult developmental theory. (Author)

Presents a conceptual framework of the field of substance abuse treatment. Discusses the nature and characteristics of the legal, medical, traditional, and emergent models of substance abuse treatment. Notes implications for counselors. (Author/RC)

Emphasizes the biological dimension of human behavior and demonstrates the need for counselors to have a knowledge of biological mechanisms of human behavior. Explains how certain biological structures and disorders are related to specific behavioral problems, and presents implications for the counseling profession. (Author/RC)

Author describes the Perls perversion, the ego-centered attitude that people should live up to one's expectations and satisfy one's whims, which causes interpersonal friction. RET helps people counteract this perversion by sensitizing them to their internalized irrational belief system, disputing it, and trying to behave rationally. Commentary by…

Just when many traditional slots for counselors and psychologists are filled or disappearing, appearance of exciting new vistas seems providential. One of these areas is physical well-being, the prevention and remedy of bodily disease. Evidence suggests the central nervous system is the most critical single determinant of physical health. (Author)