Ideal for use in introductory counseling courses, "Orientation to Professional Counseling" is fully aligned with the 2016 CACREP Standards and contains historical perspectives on the foundations of the profession, an overview of counseling specialties and contemporary issues in the field, and a discussion of anticipated future trends.…

School counselors' training and clinical competencies for providing mental health counseling continues to be a point of debate regarding professional roles and identities. This study focuses on the eight counseling core competencies as defined by the Council for Accreditation of Counseling and Related Educational Programs (CACREP). The research…

This article begins with a 12-year-old girl's story that serves as an example of how "caring coaches" in the schools contribute greatly in helping schools become hopeful places for children. Helping students become more hopeful is rewarding for the students, teachers, school psychologists, counselors, parents, and other caring adults. Twenty years…

Suggests an approach to the satisfactory termination of individual long-term counseling with children. Discusses recognizing the time for termination and preparing the child for termination. Concludes that with successful termination a child will understand that there will always be a competent adult whom they can trust and who will listen. (ABL)

The article discusses the value of using mental imagery (MI) in personal efforts to achieve life goals. The process of relaxing, reducing fear, and remembering is described, followed by a discussion of MI and self-worth. Other issues mentioned are the strengthening and weakening of behavior, and resistance. (Author/BW)

Describes intervention program in which unpaid, untrained, and minimally supervised volunteers served in a one to one helping relationship with children manifesting behavioral problems. Although the program failed to have a substantial overall therapeutic impact, children displaying a high incidence of inadequate immature" behavior showed marked…

This article is a transcript of a dialogue between a counselor and client. It focuses on the dilemma faced by a client as she enters the counseling relationship. (Author)

The use of a diary in ongoing counseling is a technique which has not been fully explored by school counselors. This article attempts to make school counselors aware of the nature of the client's exploration of his feelings, conflicts, and concerns in a diary. (Author)

This article presents a brief description of an experience in which deliberate uses of nonattending behavior achieved a relationship heretofore lacking the desired therapeutic conditions. (Author)

Encounters, defined as contacts between a social worker and client that have not been regularly scheduled, represent an alternative to the classic casework method. Presents a consumer-oriented strategy based on clinical experience in a public community mental health center in a large urban area. (Author)

The purpose of this article is to present a new orientation toward the helping process in order to suggest additional practical strategies for helpers. (Author)

Counselors at all levels are perpetually seeking new and more effective ways of establishing and maintaining therapeutic contact with their clients. The author has found the use of family photographs in counseling as a very effective means of establishing a good counselor-client relationship. (Author/HMV)

This article explains the author's first involvement with Christian counseling and sketches the emerging directions in this area. It includes a comparison of Christian and secular counseling and presents a counseling model for Christian counseling. Speech presented to the North Suburban Association of Ministers, Minneapolis, Minnesota, September…

There is substantial controversy and conceptual confusion regarding the roles of structure and ambiguity in systems of interpersonal influence. Defined and clarified some of the misconceptions involved in the therapeutic use of structure and ambiguity, discussed structuring processes from a multidimensional framework, and summarized contemporary…

Human relations skills are more widely taught and used, and inevitably misused. This aritcle is intended as a brief self-defense course identifying those who undergo this usually temporary, metamorphosis into "turkeys." It provides a rough categorization of subspecies with their identifying characteristics and a proposal for return to personhood.…