This article reports two case studies that underscore the close consultation liaison between psychotherapists and one community agency: the school. (Author)

This article discusses the Personal Interaction Coding Inventory (PICI), a system for simultaneously studying the active and affective conditions blended into one person's responses to another. (Author/EK)

The conceptual and methodological aspects of various systems of counseling and psychotherapy are evaluated in relation to characteristics of the mentally retarded. A behavioral approach to modification of problem behaviors is presented as an alternative to the range of counseling and psychotherapy approaches reviewed and considered ineffective and…

This study attempts to appraise the value of a training group psychotherapy experience within the counselor training program. The results indicated that the group psychotherapy influenced the trainees personal characteristics and professional attributes. Also 60 percent of the trainees sought further counseling or psychotherapy. (Author/CG)

The use of in vivo and imaginal desensitization procedures for treatment of a fear of flying in airplanes is described. The direct benefits of the program, along with the positive effects it had upon progress on a series of other, equally troublesome presenting problems is discussed. (Author)

Patients were interviewed to determine if phenomena observed in psychodynamic psychotherapies had occurred in their behavior therapies as well. Results indicated that the prevalence of behavior modification techniques was not significantly related to outcome, whereas patients' personal feelings about their therapists were. Also, the important…

Observations based on psychodrama with deaf people, relating to interaction between people and the communication process, are made. How role training skills, which involve some of the skills of psychodrama, can be applied by professionals in vocational and social learning situations is illustrated. (KW)

Following the first session of implosive therapy, the patient was able to return to school and attend his most anxiety arousing class. After four sessions, he returned to school on a full time basis with no reported anxiety. (Author/KJ)

The MMPI was used to derive personality measures. Therapist and patient ratings of the therapy relationship served as the dependent variables. Therapy outcomes were found to be positively related to therapist's level of anxiety and negatively related to therapist's level of repressiveness. Patients' levels of anxiety and repressiveness were both…

This article summarizes the theory of early recollections in a way that suggests its adaptation to current practice in counseling and psychotherapy. (Author)