Participants in sensitivity training reported more change after training than before and these changes were more positively evaluated than change prior to training. Changes after training were seen as more personally caused. These effects were particularly marked for behaviors that were positively evaluated. (Author)

Although restorative psychotherapy is primarily curative, counseling is largely an educative and growth-oriented activity. Successful coping requires continual adaptation to the array of changing environments and life roles. The balance between thought and emotion is important for personal effectiveness as well as for creative productivity.…

Discusses the generalization of findings from analogue therapy research to the clinical situation. Rakover contends this leads to self-contradiction and lack of scientific progress and proposes theory testing. Kazdin suggests research to determine the relationship of analogue therapy to clinical practice. (JAC)

Outpatient subjects made more subtle discriminations between the curative factors in the group psychotherapy process. Day treatment subjects were unable to discriminate between many of the factors but were able to identify group cohesiveness as the most helpful curative factor. (JAC)

In this case study of a residential treatment center for emotionally disturbed adolescents, evaluative data demonstrated that Gestalt Therapy was neither designed nor intended for use in an institutional setting with severely disturbed young adolescents, with people of lower socioeconomic status or of low verbal skill and intelligence. (Author/SJL)

The traditional mental health system presents tremendous obstacles to deaf clients. More research on the early therapy process between a hearing and/or nonsigning therapist and the deaf client can greatly increase the probability of a successful working alliance. (CJ)

Discusses the competencies basic to Adlerian therapy--including influencing psychological movement, working with the family communication system, focusing on the real issue, aligning goals and dealing with resistance, stimulating social interest, encouragement, and tentative hypotheses, and antisuggestion. A specific process for helping the family…

Health care psychology is distinguished from traditional child psychology in that it emphasizes clinical application and is concerned with primary mental health care. Diagnosis, classification, prediction, and treatment and control strategies in the field offer definite solutions to problems such as tracheotomy addiction, encopresis, psychogenic…

In Tarasoff v. Regents of the University of California the court ruled that a psychotherapist is obliged to warn third persons of threats made against them during therapy. Substantive background of this legislation; the nature of the psychotherapeutic relationship, confidentiality, and patients' rights; and the Lanterman-Petris-Short Act are…

A behaviorally-oriented activities therapy program was designed and implemented with adolescents who manifested problems at school, at home, and with peers. Techniques employed included: contingency contracting, assertiveness training, relaxation training, and cognitive restructuring. (Author/KC)

The problems of a 12-year-old hyperactive boy are related by the child's mother, father, and the child himself. (SBH)

Treatment goals, client expectations and client progress after one year of participation in program are discussed. It is suggested that agreement of goals and expectations between client and therapist, mutually shared cultural and social values, and the community base of agency are most important factors contributing to success of center. (RW)

Asserts that graduate training, as well as the policies of journals and granting agencies, supports an approach to research that promotes scientific understanding but does not produce effective clinical treatment. (Author/JM)

"A dialogue ensues between an advocate of traditional psychoanalytic psychotherapy and a proponent of some newer therapeutic modalities. The two speakers raise issues concerning the nature of the relationship between patient and therapist; the techniques employed; the role of abreaction; the importance of diagnosis; and the place of thought and…

"Mental health services in the USSR are provided primarily by the medical profession through state mental hospitals and psychiatric sections in general hospitals and clinics. Drug therapy is the main treatment method used there, but psychotherapy is beginning to make some inroads. Family therapy settings are the newest additions to preventive…