Explores the use of group counseling as one intervention strategy for dealing with suicidal adolescents. Presents the scope of adolescent suicide; explores resistance to starting groups for suicidal adolescents; and discusses counselor characteristics, group composition, appropriate group goals, and techniques appropriate for use with this…

Identifies numerous responses that mental health counselors can use to deal with clients'"I don't know" statements, including silence, empathic statement, question, describing client's behavior, assessing client's readiness to continue, inviting client to invent an answer, offering to answer the question, confronting client's statement, and…

Notes that school counselors often work with students who do not want to be in counseling. Describes three strategies for dealing with these reluctant clients: renegotiating the counseling contract, bringing in the real complainant, and contaminating the client's position. Uses case excerpts to illustrate each strategy. (NB)

Identifies three realities about the client that set limits on how helpful the counselor can be. Discusses how counselors can work to build client's belief in self, pace at the client's rate, and build on a succession of short-term goals in order to help clients in career counseling. (NB)

Surveyed 63 professional psychologists specializing in youth and family practice about recently referred and treated cases of school refusal behavior. Obtained data on clinical prevalence; demographic characteristics; length of absenteeism; severity; etiology; and length, type, and success of treatments used. Results revealed that children…

Sees art therapy as well-suited to needs of grieving women. Presents information on perinatal death and usefulness of group art therapy as intervention within framework of new psychology of women. Client art expressions illustrate how women have used art therapy to work through their grief and move toward deeper sense of personal empowerment and…

Examined possible existence of structural and content elements in Diagnostic Drawing Series (DDS) significant to eating-disordered population. Findings from 81 women with eating-disorders revealed that profile of eating disordered subjects did not vary from control group profile except for groundline and falling apart trees. (Author/NB)

Immigrants and refugees often experience difficulty adjusting to a strange new environment. This article considers Adler's (1993) article, "Refugee Dreams and Attachment Theory" but recommends a depth psychology approach, including both Freudian and Jungian perspectives, to incorporating dream analysis as a technique in cross-cultural…

Students preparing for rural gerontology practice must be aware of the following issues: diversity of rural areas, influx of urbanites, slow acceptance of human services, need to learn local language and culture, and lack of separation between professional and personal roles. Most important is the fact that, in rural areas, authority is based on…

Explains spa in counseling as uplifting, positive experiences in which focus is placed directly on helping clients feel good about themselves. Provides several examples of spa in counseling, simplest procedure being activity "Things I Can Do," in which counselor helps client focus on and savor some of most often-repeated actions of which he is…

Examined vocational evaluation's impact on rehabilitation client self-estimated aptitudes and interests. Results of study of 73 clients at comprehensive rehabilitation facility indicated that clients tended to overestimate aptitudes and interests in comparison to their tested levels and process of vocational evaluation had little effect on…

Surveyed 24 experienced therapists working with sex offenders regarding personal impact of work. Most reported shift in perspective, becoming discouraged about client change. Several adjustment phases were reported. One-quarter experienced burnout. Alternative to burnout was adaptation: lowering of expectations, objective detachment, acceptance of…

Findings from self-reports of 78 mental health clients revealed clear convergence of narcissistic needs and self-perceptions of interpersonal behaviors. Those with strong grandiose-exhibitionistic needs viewed themselves as having both dominant and friendly behavior, whereas those with strong idealizing needs viewed themselves as being submissive…

Discusses how group counseling professionals can best serve Native Americans using traditional Native American healing and spirituality. Highlights implications for counseling and development professionals. Discusses Native Americans' background, relationship with the federal government, regional considerations, psychological and sociological…

Asserts that, as marital violence becomes more of an acknowledged issue, mental health counselors increasingly will be called on to deal with problems created by this situation. Presents current research regarding spouse abuse, as well as case studies and practical list of considerations to be used in treatment of marital violence. (Author/NB)