To help a client overcome the handicapping effects of physical disability, a counselor should have a rudimentary knowledge of the behavioral manifestations of the medical condition, and be skillful at implementing counseling strategies compatible with the dynamics characteristic of each stage. (Author)

This paper describes a Gestalt approach to stimulating client awareness. The authors present examples of experiments which may be used to facilitate the client in trying on new ways of being. Gestalt principles and theory are explained. (Author)

The main contention in this article is that philosophy, especially as it is lived, is indispensable to counselors, as well as to clients, in their search for more fruitful life experiences. (Author)

An informed survey of graduate students revealed that they have several suggestions for change in their chosen field--particularly in the area of counselor preparation. (HMV)

Presents a brief historical context for today's changing popular and professional attitudes. Some current counseling procedures used with adolescent homosexuals are discussed. The legal aspects of counseling gay adolescents conclude the article, followed by an annotated bibliography of suggested reading. (Author)

Counselors need to develop knowledge of the death process and examine their own attitudes. Then they can assist the terminally ill person to develop appropriate coping mechanisms. They can help families to express grief, progress through mourning, and restructure the family system. Finally, they can develop death education programs. (Author)

The eclectic approach combines concepts and techniques from six existing counseling approaches: behavioral, client centered, existential, Gestalt, rational-emotive, and reality. (Author)

It is important that counselors facilitate development of group norms in which irresponsible behavior and failed commitments are confronted and in which rescuing is infrequent. The counselor must also monitor the group to be sure confrontations are given as caring behavior and not as an expression of anger, for punitive confrontation is…

A humorous view on the elementary school counselor's role, as personified by Fallacy Fighter, super hero who poses as Tom Brooks, mild-mannered school counselor. (HMV)

Describes some of the pressures and frustrations counselors have to contend with daily. (HMV)

This manuscript projects from John Dewey's basic philosophical themes to a conception of the role of the counselor in contemporary society. The publication serves as an impetus to readers to pursue their own introspective, analytical discourse in order to determine the "what" and "how" of guidance in an uncertain and changing world. (Author/PC)

When a child or another single member of a family is brought for psychotherapy, the therapist's task is to "redefine" individual symptoms into statements about the family system itself, and about how the family system initiates and maintains certain symptoms in particular individuals. (Author)

Child custody statutes are increasingly incorporating psychosocial and educational criteria as bases for making custody decisions. In view of the current legal trends, it seems important that family counselors attain an understanding of major issues surrounding child custody decisions. (Author)

This article explores some of the ethical and legal considerations surrounding the issue of counselors' obligations to reveal or withhold from clients information obtained during the course of their professional relationship. (Author)

Through additive empathy, a helper challenges a client to examine a deep and broad perspective for assessing problems and then to take action. Practical guidelines for using the skill in counseling and in systematic skill training are offered. (Author)