There is a growing trend for some counselors to adopt and advertise specific value positions and counseling orientations. To explore potential clients' perceptions of information contained in "traditional" and "feminist" therapists' announcements of services, 52 males and 52 females received one of four announcements…

As a result of an effective feminist movement and effective technological developments, men are faceing drastic and dramatic changes in their personal and work lives. Consequently, more men, and specifically more older men, are entering psychotherapy than ever before. Men in their 50's are facing problems associated with shifts away from…

Intimate self-disclosure to a stranger or an acquaintance was seen as less appropriate than nondisclosure. Disclosure to someone of a different age was seen as less appropriate than nondisclosure. Disclosure or nondisclosure to a person of the same age or to a friend was perceived as appropriate. (Author)

The 'perpetual client syndrome' can be combated by programs designed to change the role of the constant receiver of help to that of the giver of help. A project conducted in an Israeli public school indicates the benefits of a helper-therapy program, and some of the problems. (Author)

This comparison (with University Health Service patients) between emotive psychotherapy and insight oriented analytic therapy confirmed effectiveness of emotive psychotherapy in producing catharsis leading to therapeutic improvement. (Author/EK)

The rhetorical aspects of psychotherapeutic theory may be examined by arranging the canons of rhetoric, the sources of persuasion, and some procedures of rhetorical behavior on one axis of a grid, then placing rhetorical/therapeutic situations on the other axis of the grid. In this way, the degree to which a rhetoric is used in psychotherapeutic…

Looks at relationship between recovery (symptom reduction) from serious psychiatric disorder and patient-held and therapist-held expectations for recovery. Objective measures of prognostic expectations were taken from patients upon hospital admission and from therapists shortly thereafter. Found that therapists', but not patients', expectations…

The purpose of the present study was to enhance children's self-esteem through a five week self-photography project which provided each child in the experimental group with 60 pictures of himself in different poses. Fourth grade children were selected for both low subjective self-esteem and low behavioral self-esteem. (Author)

To assist the family doctor in providing guidance to parents of learning disabled children, a physician reviews pertinent literature, describes therapeutic techniques, and evaluates their effectiveness. (LH)

Based on part of a dissertation submitted December 1967 to the Department of Psychology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the PhD degree.

Project supported in part by grants from the U.S. Rehabilitation Services Administration (RD-1453) and the National Institute of Mental Health (5 ROL MH 14890-04).

The original paper was prepared by Carlyle H. Folkins, Karen Lawson, Edward M. Opton, Jr., and Richard S. Lazarus in 1968. Their reply to Davison's critique is included.

Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Orthopsychiatric Association (Chicago, 1968).