Virtual patients are increasingly used in undergraduate psychiatry education. This article reports on a systematic review aimed at providing an overview of different approaches in this context, describing their effectiveness, and thematically comparing learning outcomes across different undergraduate programs. The authors searched PubMed,…

This book demonstrates how to address practical and ethical challenges when evaluating capacities of older adults with neurocognitive disorders, like dementia. The contributors are expert clinicians who draw upon real-life experiences conducting clinical capacity assessments in civil matters, illustrating best practices from the ABA/APA's…

This text presents current, accessible information on enhancing the counseling process using a brain-based paradigm. Leading experts provide guidelines and insights for becoming a skillful neuroscience-informed counselor, making direct connections between the material covered and clinical practice. In this much-needed resource-the first to address…

Peace education includes lessons about conflict sources, transformation and resolution. While featuring field-based examples in multiple disciplines, including political science, anthropology, communication, psychology, sociology, counseling, law and teacher training, this book presents real cases of conflict work. Explained are concepts…

Contains eight accounts: "But Kids Don't Commit Suicide" (Sharon Andreozzi); "Learning from Multiplicity" (Kathryn Ellis); "Autonomy, Control, and Affiliation: Your Issues or Mine?" (Claudia Haferkamp); "Role Players" (Dennis Heitzmann); "Grief Counseling: Facilitating the Healing Process" (Rosemary Hughes); "Hospital Referral: A Test of Counselor…

Contains four personal accounts of counselors' experiences as clients: (1) "The Heart of the Matter" (Paul Crowley); (2) "Empathic Intervention in Self-Psychology" (Jon Maaske); (3) "Moving toward a New Perspective on Depression and Myself" (John Rebillot); and (4) "My Journey from Despair to Hope" (Lawrence Rossiter). (NB)

Contains five personal accounts: (1) "Volunteers--Handle with Care" (Donna Davenport); (2) "On the Task of Letting Go: A Woman's Paradoxical Journey" (Marjorie McKelvey Isaacs); (3) "Saving Myself Versus Serving Clients" (Peggy Kinnetz); (4) "To Publish or Not to Publish: That is the Question" (Donna Walsh); and (5) "Counseling behind Closed…

Contains five personal accounts: "Answering the Cry of Disadvantaged Students" (Cheryl Bellamy); "A Change of Direction: From Researcher to Counselor in Nigeria" (Delores Mack); "Suicidal Encounters--Suicidal Experience" (Ralph Rickgarn); "Rescuing the Rescuers: First Responders at Risk" (Hal Snyder); and "Birth is Not Necessarily Painful: A…

Contains five personal accounts of counselor overinvolvement: (1) "The First Step" (Mary Dougherty-Hunt); (2) "From Chaos to Organization" (Laura Hill); (3) "Whose Problem Is It?" (Max Hines); (4) "Helping Can Hurt" (Derek Paar); and (5) "The Heroic Syndrome" (Gerald Stone). (NB)

Contains four personal accounts of counselors' dealing with the death of a child: (1) "Lessons for Living from a Dying Child" (Garry Landreth); (2) "The Long Afternoon" (Malcolm Linville); (3) "The Birth of Empathy" (Alan Steed); and (4) "Death Vigil for Heather: When Counseling and Grieving Became Inseparable" (Stephen Weinrach). (NB)

Contains five personal accounts: (1) "From the Eye of a Giant" (Walter Earl); (2) "Culture Shock with a Happy Ending" (Terence Hannigan); (3) "Bifocality--And the Space Between" (Tim Olson); (4) "Becoming an Effective Multicultural Counselor" (Woodrow Parker); and (5) "Outback Actualization" (Martin Ritchie). (NB)

This document contains six papers from a symposium on counseling process research which offer the application of multiple research perspectives and analysis of a common data set. Analyses of two interviews from a single counseling case include lag analysis of relational control, the investigation of topic control, discourse analysis of the…

Some counselors may avoid using Rational Emotive Therapy (RET) because they feel they cannot deal with clients in the active-directive manner of Albert Ellis, originator of RET. Some of the ways in which less actively directive counselors may use RET techniques are discussed. (Author)

Although spirituality is gaining increased interest in counseling, counselors are reluctant to incorporate the spiritual dimension into their practice. This text explores spirituality in counseling so as to encourage counselors to consider their own spirituality and to facilitate the enhancement of spiritual wellness for their clients. The…

This volume of "Healing Magazine" features practical, clinical information aimed at sharing current work in children's mental health. The first issue contains articles on intervention for self-injurious behavior, providing school-based grief groups, effectively using time-out as a parenting tool, and KidsPeace's suicide prevention…