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The Gestalt Approach to Rehabilitation Counseling
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Coven, Arnold B. – Rehabilitation Counseling Bulletin, 1977
The Gestalt techniques of staying in the present, focusing on self-awareness, using fantasy, and experimenting with opposites can facilitate working with critical rehabilitation problems. Adapting the Gestalt approach would provide trained counselors with the opportunity to add to their helping repertoire. (Author)
Descriptors: Counseling Effectiveness, Helping Relationship, Program Descriptions, Rehabilitation Counseling
Relationship and Reality Counseling in a Correctional Setting
Lawrence, Richard E.; Krieger, George W. – Offender Rehabilitation, 1977
A program that provided counseling to inmates in a correctional setting is described. Two approaches were used: the relationship approach stressed the interpersonal encounter of counselor and client and exploration of feeling by the client; the reality approach stressed behavior change for client growth. Outcomes were positive for both approaches.…
Descriptors: Correctional Rehabilitation, Counseling, Counseling Services, Helping Relationship
Using Gestalt Psychodrama Experiments in Rehabilitation Counseling
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Coven, A. B. – Personnel and Guidance Journal, 1977
Gestalt therapy is an existential helping approach that assumes human beings have the potential to choose their behavior and thus define their own meaning in life. Applying Gestalt theory, disabled persons can define the meaning of the disability to their total person. (Author)
Descriptors: Helping Relationship, Human Services, Individual Development, Learning Processes
Transactional Analysis in an Alcohol Safety Program
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Clayton, Susan H.; Dunbar, Roger L. M. – Social Work, 1977
An experimental program for rehabilitating people convicted of driving while intoxicated was studied to determine how personally responsible behavior could be encouraged. The authors attribute the program's success to the egalitarian atmosphere in which staff members dealt with clients. (Author)
Descriptors: Alcohol Education, Behavior Change, Counseling Services, Helping Relationship
Role Model for a Psychological Counselor in a Rehabilitation-Oriented Correctional Facility
Lawrence, Richard E.; And Others – Offender Rehabilitation, 1977
There is reason to believe rehabilitation-oriented facilities have not reached full potential as correctional institutions. Failure to do so seems related to a lack of sufficient treatment personnel to help sustain functioning at an optimum level. If this is so, the psychological counselor can be of significant use to these institutions. (Author)
Descriptors: Correctional Rehabilitation, Counseling Services, Counselor Role, Criminals
A Weight-Loss Program Using Self-Control Techniques in a Correctional Facility: An Experimental Case Study
Goldenberg, Edward E.; DeNinno, John – Offender Rehabilitation, 1977
Self-control techniques were taught to an obese 27-year-old black male to help modify overeating behavior. Self-reinforcement was utilized in addition to systematic isolation of chained eating behavior from associated stimulus situations. A physical exercise program was employed in conjunction with the self-control techniques. (Author)
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Behavior Patterns, Body Weight, Case Studies
Preparing Correctional Officers and Inmates for Their Interaction
Menard, James M. – Offender Rehabilitation, 1977
The need for constructive correctional officer-inmate interpersonal communication has developed into a paramount, but often ignored, concern of numerous correctional institutions throughout the country. Also, many good reintegrative programs have failed because the programs' penal environments were not up to the task of providing an atmosphere for…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Correctional Rehabilitation, Counselor Role, Criminals