Although the National Institutes of Health Consensus Development Conference on the Treatment of Panic Disorder endorsed the effectiveness of cognitive-behavior therapy (CBT), D. F. Klein argues that fatal flaws in all but one CBT study undermine claims about the effectiveness of CBT for panic disorder. This article critiques Klein's arguments and…

Proposes a critical constructionist approach to family services as a useful framework for family social work. Presents the foundations and basic ideas of critical constructionism, and applies these ideas to social work with families. (JPS)

Reviews the topics of the symposium covered in this issue of the "British Journal of Guidance and Counselling." The papers, focusing primarily on the United Kingdom, comment on the past, present, and future of counseling, guidance, and psychotherapy. Specific topics include the rise of psychoanalysis, the development of the counseling…

Addresses the challenge of meeting the requirements of the United Kingdom's new National Health Service in primary care, while at the same time protecting conditions for counseling as a creative rather than a mechanical process. The profession of counseling and psychotherapy in primary care needs to rapidly find its place within the new…

Presents an American perspective on pastoral counseling as spiritually integrated counseling and psychotherapy, requiring graduate academic and clinical work in these disciplines as well as graduate education in religious studies. It offers an American perspective on this specialized ministry of mental and relational health and discusses its…

Examines mother imagery from the Finnish mythological epic "Kalevala," and describes how they offer healing imagery for understanding and acceptance of one's own mother and subsequently one's self. Offers background to the "Kalevala" itself, its language and to warriors, shamans, and sages in general. Examines seven mother…

Evaluates the reliability and validity of a new self-report measure of Self-Understanding of Interpersonal Patterns (SUIP). Measure demonstrates good internal consistency, test-retest reliability, and discriminant validity. The SUIP further demonstrates convergent validity with measures of analytical and self-improving personality traits in a…

Draws parallels between the rush to professionalization and the process of psychoanalysis in the United States in earlier decades. Offers account of what is happening in terms of the sociology of the counseling profession and suggests that expert systems are being substituted for local knowledge. Considers and rejects argument that this process is…

Examines anti-objectivist arguments made by constructivists using their therapeutic approach. Concludes that none of the arguments are cogent. Considers whether acceptance of a constructivist, non-objectivist epistemology is likely to affect constructivists' therapeutic practice. (Author/JDM)

Prevention education teaches skills related to dangerous situations, body boundaries, assertiveness, communication, awareness of feelings, self-esteem, responsibility, trustworthy people, and human sexuality. Presents recommendations for using prevention training in order to accomplish both tertiary prevention and psychotherapeutic goals for child…

Argues that the classification of life experiences as epiphanies is a task critical to personal growth. Uses narrative analysis to illuminate the factors that seem to influence the choice of events as epiphanies for survivors of sexual abuse. Examines such narratives from the life and work of D.H. Lawrence, as well as modern narratives from…

Argues that reading fiction has the power to produce personal change against enormous obstacles. Discusses the therapeutic impact of fiction, and examines reading as experiencing. Discusses how authoring fiction is similar to and different from leading a counseling group. Discusses things that an author as group leader must keep in mind in order…

This paper examines the variety of ways in which psychotherapy and residential care are integrated in the concluding phase of an intensive short-term treatment program for severely disturbed adolescents. It considers the manner in which decisions are made about termination, approaches to discharge planning, typical issues encountered in the…

Derrida's archive, broadly speaking, is brilliantly mad, for he digs exegetically into the most difficult textual material and combines the most unlikely texts--from Socrates to Freud, from postcards to encyclopedias, from madness(es) to the archive, from primal scenes to death. In this paper, the author would like to do a brief study of the…

Objective: Bupropion SR has been shown to be effective for the treatment of nicotine dependence in adults. This open-label pilot study was designed to examine the feasibility and preliminary tolerability of bupropion SR in adolescents with nicotine dependence. Method: Sixteen adolescents aged 12 to 19 years were enrolled in the study. Eleven of…