Journal of Counseling and Development articles from September 2006

Journal of Counseling and Development archives from September 2006

Cognitive-behavioral tasks accomplished in a person-centered relational framework.(Practice & Theory)
September 22, 2006... It is difficult to find one counseling approach that will satisfactorily lead to positive personality change for every client with every counselor. Nonetheless, we believe that the close, personal, deeply understanding relationship of the...

Humor in counseling: leader perspectives.(Practice & Theory)
September 22, 2006... Counseling has been described as a "dynamic process during which a trained individual assists another person who is functioning at a low or ineffective level to become a more effectively functioning person" (Doyle, 1992, p. 1). In providing...

Lived stories: participatory leadership in school counseling.(Practice & Theory)
September 22, 2006... The school counseling profession is engaged in a discourse that concentrates on the transformation of what school counselors do. Professional school counselors, counselor educators, and other stakeholders are in the process of revising the...

Legal and ethical implications of refusing to counsel homosexual clients.(Practice & Theory)
September 22, 2006... In March 2001, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit held that an employer's statutory obligation to make reasonable accommodations for employees' religious beliefs does not include accommodating a counselor's request to be...

African American men, gender role conflict, and psychological distress: the role of racial identity.(Research)
September 22, 2006... Many of the recent releases regarding counseling and psychotherapy with men (e.g., Brooks, 1998; Brooks & Good, 2001a, 2001b; Home & Kiselica, 1999; Pollack & Levant, 1998) stress the importance of understanding how a client's cultural...

Counselors' stress appraisals as predictors of countertransference behavior with male clients.(Research)
September 22, 2006... Countertransference is a double-edged sword for counselors and researchers alike. In counseling, when countertransference is unchecked, it can lead to countertherapeutic behavior (Gelso & Hayes, 1998; Strupp, 1980); conversely, if counselors...

Intrapersonal and organizational factors associated with burnout among school counselors.(Research)
September 22, 2006... Professional school counselors are asked to perform multiple duties as part of their daily work. Some of these duties match the descriptions set forth by national standards for school counseling programs, whereas others do not (Dahir, 2001). As...

Predictors of well-being among nontraditional female students with children.(Research)
September 22, 2006... Nontraditional female students over the age of 25 years, often referred to as "adult" or "reentry" students, have become the fastest growing population in institutions of higher education (Carney-Crompton & Tan, 2002; Scott, Burns, & Cooney,...

Creating a future: a study of resilience in suicidal female adolescents.(Research)
September 22, 2006... Research on resilience in adolescence has burgeoned over the past 2 decades as attention has turned toward the constructive behaviors and life-enhancing competencies of youth in navigating through significant stressors and adversity. With its...

Multicultural competency instrumentation: a review and analysis of reliability generalization.(Assessment & Diagnosis)
September 22, 2006... Amidst general progress in moving toward culturally competent mental health services, pressures to define the construct of multicultural competence and provide evidence for its utility and validity in improving intervention outcomes continue to...

Mattering to others: implications for the counseling relationship.(Trends)
September 22, 2006... "To be of importance to others is to be alive" --T. S. Eliot (from Simpson, 1997, p. 654) Mattering to others, the fundamental need that individuals have to feel important and significant to others, has recently resurfaced in the...

Counseling Japanese men on fathering.(Trends)
September 22, 2006... Aspects of fathering have been overlooked in the field of counseling (Shapiro, 2001), particularly in Japanese culture where the father's absence is portrayed as a traditional family structure (Tamura, 2003). While numerous articles related to...

The role of adult attachment style in forgiveness following an interpersonal offense.
September 22, 2006... The ability to create and maintain intimate, stable, and mutually satisfying relationships is one of the most important tasks in adult personality development (Blatt & Blass, 1995). The achievement of a meaningful and satisfying interpersonal...

Minding Spirituality.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... Minding Spirituality by Randall L. Sorenson, 2004, Hillsdale, NJ: The Analytic Press, 191 pages, $39.95, ISBN: 0-88163-344-5. Spirituality has emerged in recent years as a vibrant topic of empirical investigation and clinical consideration....