The following article provides a look at the creative process through the eyes of positive psychology. It describes first how creativity fits into the theory behind this field, then goes on to trace how a positive psychologist might consider this construct: observing how it functions therapeutically in the natural environment, then theorizing…

Informal mentoring has always served as a means of fostering development and growth of the younger members of our society. Mentoring programs take on many forms. Some target youth development, while others foster development within professions, such as the mentoring of new teachers. Prior research on influential factors in mentoring outcomes…

The clients' evaluations were unrelated to their therapists' evaluations, but they were highly related to the evaluations made by independent judges. Further analyses suggested that the disagreements between clients and therapists stemmed from the therapists' inaccuracy in perceiving the clients' problem and the therapists' tendency to…

The purposes of this document are to identify and to clarify the role of the secondary school counselor, as perceived by the membership of the American School Counselor Association, and to commit to public record certain philosophic tenets and essential operational conditions entailed. (Author)

A report of the results obtained from a personality study of students who volunteered for a peer counselor training program at an Australian University. (JC)

Would newly trained social workers in the year 2000 have to be humans, or would surrogate social workers be more practical? Basing his discussion on recent technological developments, the author explores five models for training future social workers. (Author)

Region One Education Service Center, in conjunction with Hidalgo County Schools, initiated a cooperative counseling project in September, 1971 to provide counseling and guidance services to small rural schools with large concentrations of Mexican-Americans. This article deals with the experiences the authors underwent while formulating and…

Significant differences were found between touched and nontouched clients for depth of self-exploration: clients who were touched engaged in more self exploration than clients who were not touched. No significant differences were found between touch and no-touch groups on the measures of perception of relationship. There were no significant…

Results of this study indicated that the degree of perceived counselor's empathy, warmth, genuineness, intimacy, concreteness, expertness, regard, and congruence was linearly related to the level of counselor's self-confidence. (Author)

This paper discusses the importance of incorporating the parents of the child with behavior problems into the treatment process by teaching them behavior modification principles. Trained parents augment the likelihood of producing long-lasting positive effects in their children and of extending their influence to other current as well as future…

This demonstration of enduring positive consequences lends further credence to the view that nonprofessionals, under appropriate conditions of recruitment, training, and supervision, have much to offer in human service helping activities. (Author)

The unknownness between persons must be challenged by demanding that their feelings, including the rage, fear, and mistrust, must be shared and squarely faced. (Authors/DM)

Author discusses some areas of responsibility professionals have for and to the paraprofessionals who work in the mental health field. (Author/CB)

The findings suggest that attitudes toward psychologists and psychiatrists as help sources are not as closely tied to socioeconomic class as has been indicated in earlier sociological studies. (Author)

The social work profession must increase its efforts to eliminate the blocks to effective interaction between the white worker and minority client if its professed goal of serving all clients effectively is to be taken seriously. (Author)