Discusses the need to incorporate a therapeutic ethos into the managerial role of librarians. Management research and theory is reviewed, the need for self-fulfillment at work is discussed, differences between leadership and management are suggested, and combining interpersonal management skills that will promote organizational goals while meeting…

Examines physician-patient communication as it relates to expectations that patients and physicians hold for themselves and each other. Determines that dimensions of mutual role expectation were physician as humanistic practitioner, physician authority, patient in the sick role, and patient as consumer. Finds that patients had significantly higher…

Discusses universal couple issues, such as communication, faced by same-sex couples. Focuses on the ability of a collaborative, constructionist family therapy treatment approach to address marginalization issues faced by lesbian and gay couples. Looks at individual gay and lesbian identity, same-sex couple identity, and other issues. (RJM)

Interaction of the working alliance with the therapy microprocess was explored in a sequential analytic study of brief therapy (n=32). The alliance was largely formed within the first session and was most associated with a mutual emotional engagement process. Thereafter, log-linear modeling revealed marked alliance-related and primarily…

This article proposes a framework that can be used by college counselors to assist in the development and implementation of a campus wide intervention that is congruent with sound clinical and administrative practices. A view of self-injurious behavior (SIB) informed by trauma theory espouses clinical treatment and a community response that has a…

This study examined the use of two philosophical approaches to school violence prevention and the factors that influence the use of specific strategies. School policies, programs, and discipline strategies assessed by the School Survey of Crime and Safety (SSOCS) were categorized as authoritarian (i.e., restrict student autonomy through punitive…

Children with autism often have difficulty successfully applying newly acquired skills to novel situations. Naturalistic teaching procedures have been developed to help address this problem with generalization. These naturalistic procedures promote generalization through the use of natural consequences, diverse training, and the incorporation of…

Objective: This study is the first in a comprehensive examination of therapeutic components and outcome of interventions in a public, nonresidential service for drug addicts in Jerusalem (SHALEM). Method: Data were gathered from 153 clients (35 women, 128 men; 35 Arabs, 118 Jews; median age = 39) using clinical data mining. Results: Men who had…

Certain interactional theorists propose that for counseling/psychotherapy to be effective, the therapist must control the definition of the therapy relationship. Although the relationship between patterns of relational dominance/control in counseling and counseling outcome seems reasonably well established, little is known of the relationship…

This paper discusses the integration of educational and mental health services for children and adolescents within a psychiatric day treatment setting at the Bradley School housed in a private psychiatric hospital affiliated with Brown University in Rhode Island. A full range of mental health services are used, and therapies are delivered in the…

The Therapeutic Preschool Program serves 3- and 4-year-old children of average intelligence who are diagnosed as having emotional and/or behavioral problems. The primary goal of the program is to provide a framework for teaching the social, emotional, and cognitive skills necessary for eventually mainstreaming the children into a regular education…

This paper is an attempt to develop a therapeutic stance, responsive therapy, for counselors that abandons the effort to select the one "true" therapeutic emphasis, and is based on the assumption that all therapeutic emphases are "true." A description of counselor behavior ensues which enhances a therapeutic atmosphere, moves…

One of the major tenets of relationship psychotherapy is that the client and therapist have a reciprocal impact on each other's behavior. This study was designed to investigate the relationship between client-therapist interaction patterns and therapeutic outcome. (Author)

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