Journal of Counseling and Development articles from January 2006

Journal of Counseling and Development archives from January 2006

Baby boomers mature and gerontological counseling comes of age.(Practice & Theory)(psychological research)
January 1, 2006... The Second World War (WWII) was fought by America's "Greatest Generation" (Brokaw, 1998). When the war ended, all who had been involved, both in military and civilian capacities, celebrated. Then began the task of creating the postwar nation...

The use of humor when counseling African American college students.(Practice & Theory)(psychological research)
January 1, 2006... Humor has long had its place in daily life. People consistently see its value in shaping their perspective in times of difficulty and in helping them to adjust to stressful situations. The literature highlights the place of humor as a valuable...

The convergence of counseling and psychiatric genetics: an essential role for counselors.(Practice & Theory)(psychological research)
January 1, 2006... In the past decade, discoveries in the field of biopsychiatry have had a powerful impact on mental health research and practice. In particular, work in the area of psychiatric genetics has contributed to sweeping changes in the way counselors...

Models of disability: implications for the counseling profession.(Practice & Theory)(psychological research)
January 1, 2006... Disability is a natural part of human existence and is growing more common as a larger proportion of the U.S. population experiences some type of disability (Americans With Disabilities Act [ADA], 1990; Bowe, 1980; Employment and Disability...

Critical ethical issues in online counseling: assessing current practices with an ethical intent checklist.(Research)
January 1, 2006... Since the arrival of online counseling, the practices and ethics of the counseling profession are being displayed in a new arena. With 128 million Americans identifying themselves as Internet users and nearly two thirds of users reporting they...

The attractiveness of telephone counseling: an empirical investigation of client perceptions.(psychological research)
January 1, 2006... The purpose of this study was to discover what features of telephone counseling clients found attractive and how the issues could be conceptualized from their perspective. Understanding clients' perspectives of telephone counseling is an...

Parental attachment, self-worth, and depressive symptoms among emerging adults.(psychological research)(includes statistical tables)
January 1, 2006... Efforts to evaluate the tenets of attachment theory have contributed to a growing body of research documenting the contributions of the parent-child relationship to emotional well-being and social competence across the life span. Although...

The school change feedback process: creating a new role for counselors in education reform.(psychological research)
January 1, 2006... Recent research has indicated that counselor educators may need direction regarding ways in which the school counselor might participate in schoolwide change (Perusse & Goodnough, 2001). Counselor educators typically attribute more importance...

Profiles of women survivors: the development of agency in abusive relationships.(psychological research)
January 1, 2006... Someone is beating a woman. Century on century, no end to this. It's the young that are beaten. Somberly our wedding bells start up the alarm. Someone is beating a woman. (Voznesensky, 1982) Domestic violence is a...

A qualitative analysis of the Lesbian Connection's discussion forum.(psychological research)
January 1, 2006... On Friday, June 27, 1969, the Stonewall, a Greenwich Village gay bar, was raided by New York City police. During that time in U.S. history, the raiding of gay bars was a practice used frequently to control gay people, a group viewed by the...

Making change visible: the possibilities in assessing mental health counseling outcomes.(Assessment & Diagnosis)(psychological research)
January 1, 2006... Most professions have obvious measures of success: Businesses have sales, sports teams have fans and victories, lawyers have courtroom victories, engineers and architects have constructions, farmers have food products, mechanics have working...

An interview with Samuel T. Gladding thoughts on becoming a counselor.(Profile)(Wake Forest University)(psychological research)(Interview)
January 1, 2006... Samuel T. Gladding is associate provost for Wake Forest University and is also a professor and chair of that university's Department of Counseling. He was the elected president of the American Counseling Association for the 2004-2005 tenn. He...

Wearing two hats: counselors working as managerial leaders in agencies and schools.(Best Practices)(psychological research)
January 1, 2006... Clinical supervision, a type of supervision that is focused on enhancing the treatment skills and knowledge of counselors, is an enormously important and complex topic and one that has received a great deal of attention in the counseling...

Book review of Rewarding Specialties for Mental Health Clinicians: Devoloping Your Practice Niche.(Book Review)
January 1, 2006... Rewarding Specialties for Mental Health Clinicians: Developing Your Practice Niche by Rona L. LoPresti and Edward L. Zuckerman, 2004, Guilford Press, 358 pages, $26.00, ISBN: 1-57230-934-2. Many times counseling students, new counselors,...