Claims that humanism, in both concept and philosophy, is encased in a literature that is predominantly abstract, making humanism difficult to translate into tangible day-to-day action. Argues that rational emotive behavior therapy (REBT), however, provides a detailed method for translating humanist concepts into humanist behavior. (RJM)

Explores the nature of human inquiry groups and how such groups decide on a research agenda. Outlines the stages involved in the process and considers the value of human inquiry as a qualitative methodology for counseling research. Compares the roles of the human inquiry researcher and the counselor. (RJM)

Studied undergraduate student (N=96) perceptions of counselor characteristics during audiotaped counseling sessions in which counselor used either paradoxical intervention combining symptom prescription and restraining directives or cognitive-behavior directive with a client describing severe anxiety reactions. Found perceptions of counselor using…

Evaluated alternative treatments for children (N=112) referred for severe antisocial behavior. Assigned children to one of three treatments: (1) problem-solving skills training (PSST); (2) PSST with in vivo practice (PSST-P); or (3) client-centered relationship therapy (RT). Found increases in prosocial behavior in PSST and PSST-P children while…

Praises "The Counseling Psychologist" focus issue (1990) for its excellent review of group psychotherapy literature and reacts to individual articles. Describes a conceptual model that encompasses key therapeutic factors and elements central to design and leadership of thematic groups. Compares three major forms of group…

Discusses concept of time in therapy, presenting theoretical and clinical foundations to illustrate the validity of guiding patients into past lives and future lifetimes through hypnosis to resolve self-defeating sequences. (Author/TE)

Describes Inventory of Interpersonal Problems (IIP), new measure designed to identify the types of interpersonal problems that people experience and the level of distress associated with them before, during, and after psychotherapy. Presents psychometric data from two studies which demonstrated high internal consistency of IIP, high test-retest…

Reviews the literature on the selection of members for and the composition of psychotherapy groups. Discusses viewpoints on inclusion-exclusion criteria as well as theories on group composition. (Author)

Examined agreement between patient and therapist about mental health values to determine whether such agreement influences psychotherapy outcome. Results from 100 chemically dependent inpatients found positive treatment effects associated with pretreatment agreement between counselor and patient about some mental health values, but with…

Reviews several scales used to evaluate competency of psychotherapists. Discusses concerns about interrater reliability and predictive validity of scales. Considers competency a state-like variable, with therapists demonstrating higher competence when they skillfully treat patients across range of difficulty levels. Contends that development of…

Stresses the need for documenting the application and outcomes of specific adventure activities with specific client groups and documenting critical therapeutic/clinical incidents in adventure therapy programs. Overviews current trends in documentation of therapeutic adventure programs and provides recommendations from the medical and mental…

Conceptualizes the counseling process and its outcome by comparing it metaphorically to Freud's psychosexual stage conception of personality development. Focuses on resemblances between oral, anal, phallic, latency, and genital stages. New meanings can be drawn from these resemblances, leading to fresh insight into the counseling relationship.…

Notes that, to better conceptualize the emotions related to adoption, it is important to understand and consider the ordinal position of an adoptee who is being treated for emotional difficulties. Examines the impact of three categories of ordinal position in adoption; all adjusted children; biological children followed by adopted child; and…

Shows that the Core Conflictual Relationship Theme (CCRT) can be rated reliably either from therapy sessions or from a special pretreatment interview. Pretreatment CCRTs resembled CCRTs extracted from early sessions of brief dynamic psychotherapy, suggesting that therapist influences in early treatment did not significantly alter patient CCRTs.…

Integrates key variables from three major domains (cognition, stress, and psychobiology) that are typically studied separately. Dysfunctional attitudes, negative life events, or sleep electroencephalogram were assessed in 53 outpatients before treatment with cognitive therapy. Results are discussed in terms of the promise of integrative research.…