Examines psychosocial and behavioral variables affecting the wealth of Black women. The role of education is an important theme in many intervention strategies: to modify dietary habits and to encourage the use of medical services. Education is needed also to sensitize health care professionals to the special concerns of Black women. (ETS)

Traditional literary criticism, reader-response research, and the techniques of systemic therapy are brought together to provide guidelines for teachers and counselors concerned with using stories to further the emotional development of children. A theory of reader-story interaction is proposed, and a case is made for individually composed…

Reviews counseling issues involving Black males, including the need for relevant counseling theories, ethnicity and identity, adolescent and adult development, interpersonal relationships, counselor client relationships, cultural influences, and issues in psychotherapy with urban Black male adolescents. (JAC)

The author examines how the courts have interpreted the related services mandate in P.L. 94-142, the Education for All Handicapped Children Act, and offers some guidelines as to what is and is not required in terms of psychotherapy, health services, physical plant accessibility, parent training and counseling, and extracurricular activities.…

In this article, the author describes an incident in her teaching career. The incident concerns a young boy who is having difficulty adjusting to his first day of preschool. Bringing psychological insight to the narrative story, the author describes the boy's gradual acceptance and participation in the class. (MA)

Gleser and Lubin put forth a series of objections to Kalter, Marsden and Ericson's 1974 article on methods of controlling for response productivity. The latter contend that the Gleser and Lubin objections were either not to the point or biased on lack of attention and misunderstanding. (NG)

The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between therapists' scores on the Community Mental Health Ideology Scale and the Democratic Values Scale and their ratings of patient case histories on a number of attitudinal dimensions. Results are presented. (Author)

This paper reviews research on psychotherapy and counseling for women. It divides the research according to focus: client variables; counselor variables; independent or treatment variables; and dependent or criterion variables. A general criticism is that clients and counselors tend to be seen as homogeneous rather than heterogeneous populations.…

This book explains how counselors can integrate the theories of solution focused and Adlerian counseling into a comprehensive developmental counseling curriculum. Following an introduction in Chapter 1, Chapter 2 explains how support needs to be developed among the staff to implement a comprehensive school program. The comprehensive developmental…

Suggestions on when to seek professional counseling are detailed in this book. The question "What is therapy?" is posed at the beginning. Several anecdotes illustrating crisis situations are offered, followed by a definition of therapy: the process of treating a problem that gets in the way of effective living. This treatment can include…

This document provides an introduction to supervision as a psychodynamic psychotherapy training method. The theoretical orientation of supervisor and supervisee, as well as the style of the supervisor are reviewed. The concept of parallel process in supervision and its importance for parallels between psychodynamic therapy and psychodynamic…

Three-quarters of the people with serious alcohol and drug problems go without treatment. This is often caused by a lack of understanding about what constitutes treatment. Few consumers, family members, and policymakers realize that effective drug and alcohol treatment exists. This publication describes a nationwide project organized by Join…

The treatment in one session of three women who claimed that their identities had merged is reported. A social-cognitive strategy of therapy was employed, emphasizing the use of dissonant persuasive communications and a therapeutic double bind. Technical aspects of the therapy are discussed and contrasted with possible alternatives. (Author)

Improvement ratings were obtained from parents and therapists of 70 children treated by behavior therapy at the Stony Brook Child Psychological Clinic. Therapists rated children at 80 percent if specific problems improved at termination whereas parents, six months later, rated 77 percent of problems improved. The high ratings are discussed in…