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)

Discusses how, when a child is the identified patient and family therapy is treatment, therapeutic process can be facilitated by conducting at least small number of individual sessions with child. Notes that such behavior by therapist communicates to children, parents, and involved referral sources respect for their opinions and lays groundwork…

Argues that career counseling with adults is exploration of personal identity and meaning, both of which are fundamental to individual's survival, well-being, and family lifestyle. Discusses themes that are salient personal matters that may or may not be explicitly articulated by clients in career counseling settings. (Author/NB)

Presents field of brief individual psychotherapy as coherent set of conventions, despite its diverse origins in schools of dynamic, behavioral, interpersonal or cognitive, and strategic psychotherapy. Proposes advantages and drawbacks of shared conventions and discusses how neighboring field could help field of family therapy reduce its errors.…

Examines the issues related to informed consent and decisions to employ conjoint or one-spouse formats in therapy with discordant couples. Features a discussion of options for ensuring informed consent as protection for both the therapist and his/her client(s). (Author/ABB)

Outlines a timeline perspective that helps counselors avoid ethical violations and organize the ethical mandates that contribute to effective practice. Ethical considerations are proposed during the initiation phase of counseling, as counseling develops, when a period of crisis arises, and at the termination phase. (Author)

Examines the maxim commonly held and generally supported in the divorce therapy literature that the preferred treatment in divorce therapy is individual counseling, and considers conjoint and family treatment as viable alternatives. Assesses how a therapist's theory of divorce therapy dictates the treatment unit adopted. (JAC)

The Career Treatment Strategy Model integrates personal and career counseling in four phases: assessment of life and career issues, preemployment skill development and reduction of career anxiety, job search skill development, and job placement and retention. It works with a range of clients, including those in transition, the socially isolated,…

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…

Solution-focused therapy is based on the premise that client goals and solutions are more important than problems the client depicts in sessions. The miracle question technique is used in the first session to help the client construct and consider a future without the problem: "Suppose that one night, while you were asleep, there was a…

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)

Leisure counseling should be a helping process which facilitates interpretive, affective, or behavioral changes in individuals towards the attainment of their leisure well being. (JN)

Recognizes the efforts of Fuhriman and Burlingame in "Consistency of Matter" (1990) in undertaking the task of comparing individual and group therapy process literatures. Questions whether group therapy process is different from individual therapy process. Criticizes article for using reviews of reviews of individual therapy literature…

The Purdue Stepped Approach Model integrates career development and mental health counseling in a five-step continuum: (1) minimal intervention (e.g., career days, workshops); (2) media-assisted self-instruction; (3) minimal contact (single or periodic counseling sessions); (4) group counseling; and (5) individual counseling. (SK)

Asserts that, since family therapists have been trained to take neutral stance regarding family issues, their ability to perceive individual responsibility for unethical behavior when dealing with family violence is weakened. Contends that physically abusive man needs to be in individual or group therapy, not in conjoint or family therapy.…