Objective: To examine the effectiveness of individual versus group therapy for anxiety and depression among university students. Participants: Forty-one university students experiencing moderate to severe symptoms of anxiety and/or depression participated during one of three academic semesters from 2015 to 2016. Methods: Participants were randomly…

Discusses those couples in which each has reached a plateau in individual therapy and is referred for concurrent marital therapy to break the impasse. States that projective identification is the major defense used by these couples. Suggests a time-limited, issue-focused approach lasting two-six months. (Author/BH)

Provides comprehensive career counseling model for individual career counseling which takes into account psychological, social, and economic factors and describes decision-making as a journey with four discernible stages. (Author/NB)

Compared four forms of psychoanalytically oriented psychotherapy involving experienced therapists and psychiatric outpatients (N=106) in an outcome investigation. Results favored long-term group therapy and short-term individual therapy over long-term individual therapy and short-term group therapy. (LLL)

Studied effects of short-term, dynamically oriented individual therapy and patient characteristic quality of object relations (QOR) in study involving 8 therapists and 144 psychiatric outpatients. Best results were attained by high QOR therapy patients; worst results were attained by low QOR control patients. Results were suggestive of optimal…

Presents case examples demonstrating interconnection between career and noncareer issues. Notes that comprehensive and intensive personal exploration is needed to uncover relatedness of seemingly disparate areas of clients' lives. Contends that when comprehensive person-oriented career counseling is done there is recognition and integration of…

Presents a case where psychiatry and family therapy were used concurrently to treat a family disorder. The use of two modalities allowed the therapists to see the distress their prescriptions inflicted on the child. Concluded that family therapists should consider how their interventions affect young, vulnerable family members. (BH)

Administered College Maladjustment scale from revised Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory to college students in personal counseling (n=27), in vocational counseling (n=39), and on scholarship (n=27). Results indicated that, as predicted, students in personal counseling condition scored significantly higher than students in other…

Sees implicit definitions given to career and personal counseling as reflecting dichotomy between research and practice. Says that research focus and early practice experience reinforce idea that career counseling is prototypically concerned with young adult career choice. Presents case study of targeted coaching in business to illustrate how…

Discusses advances made in school counseling in Ontario in the past decade and goals for the future. Counselors must strive for continual improvement and evaluation of their own and their school programs to assist students in developing personal life skills. (JAC)

Defining absenteeism as "unscheduled leave," this report describes an attempt to analyze the factors involved in absenteeism, which produced no significant improvement, and an absentee counseling program instituted at the University of Guelph Library in October 1980, which resulted in improved attendance within a few months. (EJS)

Examined the counseling needs of First Nations youth (n=54), living in five major First Nations communities of Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. Identified five types of needs based on survey and interview data. Majority of the students reported having never or only once accessed the Native counselor. (JBJ)

Investigated teacher (n=141) expectations and actual role activities of five half-time elementary counselors. Individual counseling and consulting with teachers accounted for majority of counselor time, family problems other than divorce was topic dealt with most frequently, counselors used their time differently in October than in May, teachers…

In the 1970's Rural Development Counselors and Community Affairs Specialists of the Manitoba Department of Agriculture were part of an effort to reverse trends of economic depression and rapid outward migration from rural to urban centers by assisting rural Manitobans individually, in groups, and as communities. Low- to moderate-income farmers and…