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 problem of treating clients with intractable difficulties. Presents Gandhi Technique as simple, dramatic and seemingly effective procedure to resolve intractable difficulties. Describes technique and its application in different cases. Discusses several theories which may account for the efficacy of the technique. Proposes that Gandhi…

Examines potentially assaultive or preassaultive client and suggests some ways to minimize the risk of assault by such clients. Data for the article are from author's 10-year experience in providing social work services on acute psychiatric ward in large public medical center. Reviews potentially assaultive client conditions of panic, rage,…

Highlights history and features of the Federal Witness Protection Program, characteristics of individuals in the program, and factors affecting both the individuals and their relocated and abandoned families. Includes brief case history and highlights therapeutic clinical concerns when therapist's clients are participating in Federal Witness…

Contends that current counseling paradigms do not include necessary skills for effective results with Native American clients and suggests development of new paradigm for Native Americans. Presents overview of situation and discusses historical influences and current status of family, education, testing, career development, and suicide among…

Notes that, in assessing and diagnosing children and adolescents for psychological treatment, attention must be paid to variations across sources of assessment data, comorbidity of diagnoses, and potential utility of family diagnosis. Presents specific methodological recommendations regarding randomized clinical trials, control groups, dependent…

There are no meaningful statistics on the number of people who leave destructive cults and no salient picture emerges regarding the frequency of maladaptive conditions following cult involvement. Nonetheless, of the total number of individuals coming out of cults, a seemingly significant subgroup evidences severely neurotic or psychotic-like…

The Khmer are the predominant ethnic group of Cambodia, yet they have suffered genocide in their own homeland. The English language is the primary social barrier confronted by Cambodian refugees to the United States, since there are no similarities between English and Khmer alphabets and tenses. Refugees who arrrived in 1975 tended to be educated,…

Presents case study of a 25-year-old male who needed to make a career decision and sought the assistance of a career counselor. Describes client's career history, his family environment, occupational aspirations, and relationships which are important to his career plans. (Author/ABL)

Examines four aspects of stories/storytelling as they relate to life, to definition of stories, to therapy in general, and to family therapy in particular. Presents excerpts from wide variety of sources with little commentary included. Notes that selection of particular pieces for inclusion and elimination of others necessarily make a statement.…

Notes that surprisingly little has been written in the counseling journals on the topic of lying, that is, why some clients consciously choose to be either dishonest with their counselors or deliberately hold back important information from their counselors. Discusses dynamics of lying and offers suggestions to counselors on how to work with…

Examines manifestations of internalized oppression within African-American women's group process and discusses ways to address this oppression. Special attention is given to the African-American female group leader. Suggestions for practice focus on recruitment and client initiation of services, confronting internalized oppression in…

Reviews trends in career counseling with lesbian and gay clients. Presents role of career development with lesbian and gay clients based on information regarding employment discrimination, decision to pass as heterosexual on job, counselor and student training issues, age-related factors, and differences between gay men and lesbian women with…

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…