The goals of treatment and assessment in the behavior therapy approach should not be confined to such specific performance-oriented objectives as increasing approach behavior to feared stimuli or overcoming a stutter. They should be as diverse and complex as the people who have them. (Author/PD)

Author outlines five assumptions or characteristics typical of behavior therapy, and uses them in an attempt to define the subject. (BP)

Behavior therapy is going through a period of questioning and self-examination. This pause for self-questioning is certainly a healthy trend, and is sorely needed to prevent the field from becoming too entrenched in orthodoxy. (Author)

Author argues that behavior therapists could do worse than to begin the latest chapter in their development with the recognition that a decade or so of work has brought them back to conclusions they scorned at the outset. (Author)

Author argues that as long as behavior therapy continues to ignore the inductive, single-case research on behavior frequency that was so successful for both Pavlov and Skinner, there will be little progress. (Author)

The author discusses the popularity of nontraditional approaches to mental health and individual development. He suggests that counseling psychologists should take note of the nontraditional emphasis on the holistic, physical, and nondogmatic spiritual. Counseling psychologists can develop new models, theories, and techniques to lead psychology in…

The author, from his perspective as president of the American Association of State Psychology Licensing Boards, identifies the issues he believes most pertinent for contemporary psychologists to attend to if they wish to be credentialed as psychologists. (Author)

This article discusses the effects of the male sex role upon male behavior in psychotherapy, showing research results for both therapist and client behavior. The research suggested that male clients tended not to disclose as freely, and that male therapists were perceived as less expressive than females. (LPG)

Author argues that the computer can help users engage in exploratory behavior that is richer, more extensive, and more economically feasible than most of what is now available to counselors. (BP)

Author states that to cling to the idea that empathy in itself is sufficient leads to fruitlessness and frustrating efforts in endless exploration with both client and counselor chasing their tails. A counselor therapist also needs discrimination skills, decision making skills, program development skills, and program implementation skills. (Author)

The author asserts that it is possible to launch rigorous efforts to expand the empathic understanding skills of the people all around the world. (Author)

The article attempts to piece together a conceptualization of the competent male using a model that centers upon achievement and affiliation. Using transactional analysis, it expounds upon sex role communication between men and women, then discusses specific personality traits of men, and what they imply for the future. (LPG)

This article illustrates the competitive nature of application, admission, and achievement procedures within most programs of counselor training, and shows how this affects socialized male needs to compete. In order to counteract this, it suggests that counselor educators provide opportunities for positive experiences, which confront and deal with…

The question of what it means to be "scientific" in the broadest sense is explored, and this information is used as a basis for evaluating the past, present and future of behavioral therapies. (Author/BP)

In the long run, the scientific therapies will prove more efficient for more people more of the time and will produce less harmful results. To the degree that the "unscientific" therapies last, they will have certain usable aspects incorporated into the remaining "scientific" systems. (Author)