Autobiographies are typically included along with self-help books on resource lists for mental health clients. Although first-person narratives may have advantages of reader identification with the protagonist, little research has been done on this issue. One problem is that book categories overlap, e.g., some novels are autobiographical, and some…

Late adolescent girls who would more likely defect from psychotherapy early had a self-rated history of greater self-disclosure than did girls who would more likely continue. This difference was especially clear with male targets. The second experimental study revealed a similar finding; terminators are higher self-disclosers to males whereas…

Studies are reviewed that report the prediction of rehabilitation failure from personality measures. Related research is discussed that suggest the dynamics underlying a key concept, the "hypochondriacally organized personality" which is identifiable from the Rorschach anatomy response percentage. (Author)

The author examines several of Ellis'"irrational ideas" as they relate specifically to counselors. These ideas provide a convenient vehicle for the discussion of some typical misconceptions about counseling. Counselors are encouraged to analyze their own feelings and thought processes and to determine irrational ideas in addition to those…

With therapists influenced either by color blindness or ethnocentricity, patients tend to lose their individual richness and complexity. (DM)

To attain the conditions of cooperativeness, high motivation, and good rapport between therapist and parent, it is suggested that the therapeutic educator adopt attitudes which ehlp him behave in a way such that the parent perceives him as one who understands and respects the parent as an indispensable helpmate. (Author/BY)

A paradigm wherein a mother was reinforced for observing and modeling her child's therapist produced significant changes in a maladaptive parent-child interaction pattern. (Author)

Conclusions are: (a) group members' and therapists' role image of clients are in agreement and (b) group members perceive therapists' self-disclosures as a negative indicator of mental health. (Author)

Clients receiving psychotherapy and those not receiving therapy did not initially differ significantly on a number of subject variables. (Author)

Milieu therapy is central to residential treatment of emotionally disturbed children in Norway. The trend is away from the American emphasis on individual psychotherapy as a major treatment component. (Editor)

Analysis of the data indicated that the low self actualizing group had the highest rate of conditioning, while the high self actualizing individuals showed a nonsignificant gain in the rate of affective self disclosures during conditioning but were more resistant to extinction as compared to the low and the moderate groups. (Author)

This report is the story of one clinic's departure from traditional methods of dealing with disturbed inner-city school children. The paper includes a discussion of a cooperative venture between a child guidance clinic and the public school system and an examination of the practical aspects of the problems arising from such a joint project.…

Provides a short summary of the research being done on the subject of drug therapy with children having learning disabilities, pointing out the advantages and the dangers in such therapy. (RW)