Journal of Counseling and Development articles from June 2002

Journal of Counseling and Development archives from June 2002

Publishing in JCD: some goals and objectives. (Special Introduction).(Journal of Counseling & Development)(Editorial)
June 22, 2002... Being named editor of the Journal of Counseling & Development (JCD) is honorific, humbling, and challenging. I follow in the footsteps of prestigious editors and scholars, each of whom has left his or her mark on JCD, the flagship journal of...

Celebrating 50 years of excellence!(American Counseling Association)
June 22, 2002... The year was 1952. Dwight Eisenhower was elected president in a landslide over Adlai Stevenson. The first contraceptive pill was developed. Dr. Jonas Salk developed the polio vaccine. Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea was published, and the...

Therapist as subject: a review of the empirical countertransference literature. (Practice & Theory).
June 22, 2002... More than two decades have elapsed since the last major review was published of research on countertransference (CT; Singer & Luborsky, 1977). Since that time, researchers have demonstrated renewed interest in this clinically important but...

Scapegoating: dynamics and interventions in group counseling.
June 22, 2002... According to the Biblical story, the term scapegoat originates in the ancient ritual in which a goat was sent into the desert to symbolically atone for the sins of the Israelites (Leviticus, 16:8-17; New International Version). In contemporary...

Adventure Based Counseling: an innovation in counseling.
June 22, 2002... Adventure Based Counseling (ABC) is a therapeutic tool that can be adapted to almost any setting and is a mixture of experiential learning, outdoor education, group counseling (Schoel, Prouty, & Radcliffe, 1988), and intrapersonal exploration....

Learning to write case notes using the SOAP format.(subjective, objective, assessment, and plan)
June 22, 2002... In every mental health treatment facility across the country, counselors are required to accurately document what has transpired during the therapeutic hour. Over the course of the past few years, the importance of documentation has gained more...

Child group psychotherapy in the school at the threshold of a new millennium.
June 22, 2002... More and more children and adolescents today are exhibiting adjustment problems in the school. Some of these problems are part of their normal developmental tasks, whereas others are a result of stressful events in their lives. For instance,...

The counseling profession's relationship to Jews and the issues that concern them: more than a case of selective awareness.
June 22, 2002... Jews, especially in America, by all outward appearances, have thrived and been exempt from many of the stressors associated with minority status. As with other minorities, their problems are rooted, in part, in oppression, although Jews in...

Postmodern implications for theoretical integration of counseling approaches.
June 22, 2002... There is a wide array of healing systems available to counselors, including humanistic, psychoanalytic, cognitive, and behavioral. In addition to these primary orientations, there are countless eclectic combinations and lesser known systems of...

The SAFI model as a critical link between marginalized families and schools: a literature review and strategies for school counselors.(School and Family Intervention Model)
June 22, 2002... As a society, we have failed to adequately support and nurture many of our youth. In many instances the paucity of social and emotional skills, coupled with a lack of parental involvement in the educational process, has created a generation of...

African Americans' educational expectations: longitudinal causal models for women and men.(Statistical Data Included)
June 22, 2002... Since the 1970s, African Americans have demonstrated gains in educational outcomes. According to T. M. Smith (1997), in 1972, only 32% of African Americans planned to attend a 4-year college immediately after high school graduation, whereas in...

Problem-solving skills and relationship attributes among women with eating disorders.(Statistical Data Included)
June 22, 2002... Myriad biological, psychological, and sociological, factors have been implicated in the development and maintenance of disordered eating, which has lead to the acceptance of the biopsychosocial model (Attie, Brooks-Gunn, & Petersen, 1990). The...

Social connectedness, social appraisal, and perceived stress in college women and men.(Statistical Data Included)
June 22, 2002... When Marie arrived at the counseling center, she wrote on her intake form that she was seeking counseling because she felt lonely. During the intake interview, Marie further explained that she felt socially disconnected from her...

One family at a time: a prevention program for at-risk parents.
June 22, 2002... Maccoby and Martin (1983) suggested that parents and children influence each other in a reciprocal manner. For example, as children s challenging behaviors increase in frequency and intensity, some parents may reciprocate with harsher...

Improving parent-child relationships through filial therapy: an interview with Garry Landreth. (Profile).(Interview)
June 22, 2002... A native of Oklahoma, Garry Landreth began his career as a public school teacher in the Albuquerque, New Mexico, Public School system in 1958. In 1962, he completed his Master of Arts in Counseling from the University of New Mexico and began...

A primer on suicidology: implications for counselors. (Trends).
June 22, 2002... According to the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH; 1999), more than 31,000 people died from suicide in 1996. It has been estimated that nearly 1 of every 60 Americans has experienced the loss of a loved one due to suicide (Westefeld et...