This article examines potential consumer harm that may arise due to regulating modern financial services communication technology with rules written in the early 20th century. It is argued that disparities in record keeping regulation across communication mediums disincentivizes the use of technology capable of generating records for consumer…

This study examined the associations of school connectedness and school counselor contact to college enrollment among 1,077 Asian American students. The results revealed that school connectedness and school counselor contacts were positively related to college enrollment. The results of the current study provide important contributions to the…

As counselors turn their attention to child-based counseling, there is a need to apply the core tenets of the discipline of counseling to young children and incorporate cross-cultural issues into clinical competence. Using Multicultural Counseling Theory (MCT), the authors discuss conventional approaches to providing clinical interventions for…

Four sexually exploited clients shared their experiences in invoking the complaint process against their former therapists. They wanted to stop the therapist from practicing and harming others, to receive some acknowledgement that they had been harmed, and to obtain some kind of recompense. If the therapist was unable to admit his or her error,…

Counseling is a professional field that requires as much or more courage than virtually any non-life-threatening occupation. In a fashion analogous to both the fire fighter or the police officer who is in direct physical danger, effective counselors must fortify themselves and prepare themselves as well as possible when they enter the unknown and…

This paper contends that, in a psychotherapeutic relationship, the client must experience himself or herself as deeply understood and unconditionally accepted by the therapist. This subjective experience of the client is seen as the quintessential dimension in successful psychotherapy. The paper goes on to state that the client's experience of…

The patient-therapist model, the oldest form of mental health treatment, is at the core of reconstructive psychotherapy. Because this therapeutic partnership is subtle and vague, ethical concern is at the heart of the reconstructive therapeutic process. The aims of reconstructive therapy can be defined in terms of an existential, a psychoanalytic…

Most theory and research on power and social influence in counseling and psychotherapy has focused on the power base and power outcome domains of Olson's (1972) framework which viewed power as a generic concept consisting of the three domains of power base, power process, and power outcome. Statistical approaches to the study of power, influence,…

As psychology has recognized the rights of clients and subjects to exercise a rational, voluntary choice about participation in research, assessment, and treatment, the use of written informed consent forms has increased. A sample of 196 psychologists in private practice were mailed questionnaires which examined their use of, and rationale for,…

Addresses the issues of why theory is practical and what makes a particular theory good. Theory serves a number of important functions (saves energy, mobilizes energy, and so on) in applied fields, such as social work. A good theory is dynamic, parsimonious, capable of resolving paradoxes, realistic, and comprehensive. (BB)

The length of the counseling relationship (number of sessions) was studied in relationship to (1) counselors' understanding of their clients' views of the depth and smoothness of their sessions and (2) clients' perceptions of being understood (regarding their views of their counseling sessions) by their counselors. Participants (17 therapists and…

This three-part workshop presentation explores the ideas of Milton Erickson on the therapeutic relationship and the therapeutic use of metaphor, and applies these ideas to experiential education and adventure therapy. Part 1 introduces the practitioner to the core philosophy within an Ericksonian approach: "utilization" of a client's…

Responsive Therapy is an integrative model that purports to structure the use of a variety of intervention models, each in its own theory-pure context. It is firmly based in phenomenology. Beginning with a phase that relies on critical, universal therapy skills, therapy proceeds through a highly active, hopefully collaborative, intervention phase.…

Although informed consent has been incorporated into psychologists' ethical standards, it has been suggested that significant variation exists among therapists' practices and beliefs. To assess the current state of informed consent among therapists, American Psychological Association members (N=189) were surveyed. Counselors indicated their…

Theory and research have suggested that counselor self-disclosure can be an effective technique if used for purposes that benefit the client. This study examined variables that might bear on the appropriateness of counselor self-disclosure, such as reported reasons for disclosing and reported content of disclosures. Possible differences in…