Describes usefulness of family history research (genealogy) as counseling tool that provides foundation for personal healing, family communication, and personal growth. Gives series of questions to help client assess family history's meaning. Discusses client issues and characteristics. (Author/CM)

Notes that women are particularly vulnerable to depression during the postpartum period. Distinguishes postpartum depression from normal postpartum adjustment, postpartum blues, and postpartum psychosis. Describes biological, psychodynamic, and diathesis-stress perspectives on postpartum depression. Encourages counselors to fashion individualized…

Describes strategies for dealing effectively with resistance in group therapy. Discusses resistant group members; reasons for resistance; group stages; and strategies for dealing with silence, laughter, excessive talking, monopolizing, and intellectualizing and generalizing. Includes discussion of experimental strategies to overcome group…

Notes that prevalence of psychological problems has been found to be highest for working class women, yet counselors are often unprepared to counsel these women effectively. Describes common characteristics and concerns of working class women clients, effective counseling approaches, and difficulties and rewards for counselors who deal with this…

Notes that religion may be source of spiritual strength or source of conflict and guilt. Outlines importance of assessing religious beliefs of clients for treatment purposes and provides format for counselor to use. Says that, because counselors may be unaware of clients' individual perspectives, it is important to evaluate client's belief system…

Presents a rationale for providing counseling to Hispanic male adolescents. Discusses characteristics of this population and suggests specific techniques for counseling. Reviews several successful therapies with Hispanic male adolescents reported in the literature. Concludes that multicultural counseling must include appreciation of individual…

Presents training format that encourages mental health counselors to address their own comfort with sexuality and then offers specific concepts for working with sexually active clients. Presents five areas: counselor comfort with sexuality, sexuality assessment tools, societal values about sexuality, treatment approaches to clients' sexual issues,…

This manual, written for counselors and educators at all levels of education, focuses on multicultural awareness and educational equity. It is intended to acquaint the reader with the difficulty of counseling Hispanics due to manifestations of cultural and racial stereotypes. It stresses the need to change the counseling techniques that have…

Notes that school counselors often work with students who do not want to be in counseling. Describes three strategies for dealing with these reluctant clients: renegotiating the counseling contract, bringing in the real complainant, and contaminating the client's position. Uses case excerpts to illustrate each strategy. (NB)

Discusses how group counseling professionals can best serve Native Americans using traditional Native American healing and spirituality. Highlights implications for counseling and development professionals. Discusses Native Americans' background, relationship with the federal government, regional considerations, psychological and sociological…

Addresses the need for an integrated career-related diagnostic scheme and provides a practical and proven diagnostic system that can be used by career counselors to assess and counsel their clients. Diagnostic scheme presented combines Bordin's (1946) model with Matre and Cooper's (1984) orthogonal dimensions of Decidedness-Undecidedness and…

Calls client resistance a frequent occurrence within the helping profession. Defines client resistance, provides a brief review of related literature, and offers counselor attractiveness as one way of addressing the issue. Identifies attractive counselor behaviors and attitudes and presents case study illustrating specific attractive counselor…

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…

Notes that many unemployed Vietnam veterans may be suffering from posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Symptoms and behaviors of PTSD are reviewed to assist employment counselors in identifying clients with PTSD. Counseling and referral actions are suggested. Outlines four-phase approach used by many Veterans Centers in counseling veterans with…

Proposes three ways in which counselors may be seen as contributing to client resistance: counselor wants client to be and to behave in counselor-imposed ways; counselor actively constructs complementary role that client is to fulfill; and counselor maintains entrenched belief in truth of "client resistance." Suggests strategies to help…