Highlights role of the therapist in family therapy impasses involving interactions of the client-family and the therapist. Asserts that the essence of the therapist's role in impasses is ignorance and fear and recommends that family therapy teachers help therapists develop wisdom and courage. (Author/NB)

Compared the two definitions used to study therapist interpersonal control: The relational coding scheme of Ericson and Rogers and the topic initiation/topic following schema of Tracey and Ray as they apply to actual therapy dyads. Both schemata were moderately correlated, but the two models attributed control to different participants.…

Examined psychotherapy process from social power theory. Findings indicated therapists were consistent in their use of tactics, male therapists used more influence tactics, therapists used more passive forms of influence earlier in the session, therapists of both genders told female clients what to do, and therapists used stronger influence…

Addresses the characteristics and boundaries of a professionally led support group and how it differs from a self-help group and group psychotherapy. Points out that core differences among the three types of groups tend to revolve around membership screening and interactions, goals, dynamics of change, and leadership strategies. (LLL)

Masturbation, once thought evil and the cause of many diseases, has been proven medically not to cause mental illness, physical weakness, or any type of disease or death; it is a normal aspect of human sexual development. (SK)

In training counseling students, it is increasingly important to acquaint them with the clinical research literature exploring the efficacy of particular treatments. This review of empirically supported treatments (EST's) concerning psychophysiological disorders and chronic pain is intended to facilitate the educational process. EST's, or…

The intent of this book is to present information on various counseling approaches for drug abuse used in some of the best known and most respected treatment programs in the United States. In an effort to make the comparison of the various models less difficult and to clarify how the model is applied in practice, each chapter follows a specific…

This book chronicles the lessons learned when a substance abuse counseling program switches its theoretical orientation from problem-focused to solution-focused. The book details the technical aspects of the changeover (theory, techniques, interventions, politics, and team design) as well as the personal struggles the team endured and the…

This book is organized into two parts. Part 1 consists of three chapters in which the theoretical groundwork is laid for part 2. In the introduction, an existential based theory of culture is offered, the cross-cultural client is defined, and the format of the book is described. In chapter 1, several constructs that may affect cross-cultural…

The data indicated: (a) clients perceived greater self-exploration than counselors or raters; (b) confrontive counselors perceived greater self-exploration than speculative counselors; and (c) neither raters' nor clients' estimates of self-exploration differed across speculative or confrontive counselors. (Author)

Everything begins with subjective states,'' is the basic position of Phenomenology, and only through subjectivity can ultimate reality be reached. Behaviorism, on the contrary, sees mind'' as part of the material world and behavior as determining man's essence. Change is attained by altering behavior which leads to changes in attitudes. The best…

A developmental framework for initiating group counseling and psychotherapy is presented. On the basis of existing evidence, client risk, responsibility, and group structure were postulated as basic ingredients affecting early group development. Client exposure to levels of personal risk and responsibility most conducive to group development can…

This issue presents the basic theory underlying the dimensions of counseling, illustrates each of the dimensions, and shows their training implications. The issue features articles that illustrate organizational intervention, associational group intervention, and primary group intervention. (Author/LA)

This article presents additional evidence that traditional psychodynamic psychotherapy does not fulfill its manifest function to help individuals achieve "mental health"; thus, its persistence as an ideology and clinical practice can be explained only on the basis of its latent function as a means of social control. (Author)

These data tend to refute the widespread notion that thought disorder is unchangeable. (Author)