There is an opportunity for men to give and receive counsel with other men with the men's consciousness-raising (CR) movement. This article describes a men's CR program that encourages men to explore ideas, feelings, and values in a noncompetitive and trusting atmosphere. Self-disclosure, competition, and affection are identified. (Author)

Discusses the armed conflicts in Central America and their influence on civilian populations. Discusses the psychosocial consequences and therapeutic considerations of warfare, displacement and refuge for children. (RJC)

Examines concept of therapist centrality and how remaining fixed in this position can lead to therapeutic overinvolvement and possible impediment of therapeutic goals. Discusses specific aspects pertaining to this concept such as development, clinical indications, and implications, along with clinical and supervisory corrective techniques. (Author)

Explores the use of poetry as therapy to cope with the numerous geographical moves made by an individual in her adult life. Identifies six tasks involved in moving from one home and community to another, and cites examples of poetry written during each of those transitions. (PA)

Describes the ways in which the use of poetry in group therapy facilitates therapeutic goals consistent with interpersonal theory. Discusses the relationship between poetic interventions and I. D. Yalom's therapeutic factors, and offers a case example of an in-patient therapy group. (SR)

Discusses what a poet can offer severely disturbed psychiatric patients and how that is distinct from what a clinician offers. (SR)

During psychotherapeutic work, couples typically present distinctly contradictory stories about their life together. This paper explores how a psychotherapist may promote mutually beneficial change for couples who contradict each other. One suggested tactic is a non-impositional approach to therapy using a narrative-oriented context. Such a tactic…

This article discusses the current role and status of recreation in corrections. (PD)

These findings suggest that the relative effect of the main therapeutic procedure and expectancy (defined by the presence or absence of a therapeutic rationale and instructions suggesting a positive outcome from treatment) varies with different behavioral therapies. With reinforced practice and covert sensitization the main therapeutic procedure…

Shelter care for adolescents has evolved into a specialized kind of child care. While in a shelter, the child experiences positive rewards as well as discipline in a controlled environment; evaluative measures are performed to develop a realistic long-term treatment plan for the child. (Author)

Using six different measures of therapist empathy employed in previous research, this study correlated the empathy measures with each other, with a measure of therapeutic process (depth of self-exploration), and with several outcome measures. (Author)

J. W. Thibaut and H. H. Kelley's analysis of interaction in dyads is used as a general framework in analysis of the conditions for premature discontinuance in treatment. Empirical evidence in support of the proposed conceptualization is cited and reviewed. (Author)

Interpersonal variables such as sex, age, and race have been shown to influence research, interviewing, school, and therapy interactions. The practitioner should be aware of this influence, both in his own work and in his work with other people. (Author)