Journal of Mental Health Counseling articles from January 2004

Journal of Mental Health Counseling archives from January 2004

The "no-show" phenomenon and the issue of resistance among African American female patients at an urban health care center.(Research)
January 1, 2004... Using data from 90 African American female medical and mental health patients, this exploratory study examined the reasons patients missed scheduled appointments at a low-income, urban healt-hcare center. Results indicated a clear difference...

What we don't know can hurt us: mental health counselors' implicit assumptions about human nature.
January 1, 2004... All people have implicit assumptions, often existing outside conscious awareness, about a range of human attributes. Mental health counselors may have unique sets of implicit assumptions about human nature which affect their view of client...

Dialectical behavior therapy: a review and call to research.(Practice)
January 1, 2004... Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT; Linehan, 1993a) is a systematic and integrative orientation to treating borderline personality disorder Borderline personality disorder, or BPD, may present a myriad of challenges and difficulties for the...

Editor's note on multicultural compentencies.(Professional exchange special section: multicultural counseling competencies)
January 1, 2004... The Journal of Mental Health Counseling has a tradition of providing, through peer reviewed articles, a forum for stimulating and engaging scholarly dialogue on issues that are relevant to mental health professionals' work and development....

Mental health counseling and the AMCD Multicultural Counseling Competencies: a civil debate.
January 1, 2004... This article introduces a JMHC special section on the Association for Multicultural Counseling and Development's (AMCD) Multicultural Counseling Competencies (Arredondo et al., 1996). Authors were asked to respond to Weinrach and Thomas's...

Multicultural Counseling Competencies = ethical practice.
January 1, 2004... The adoption of the Competencies is indicative of ethical and culturally responsive practices. Historical marginalization based on ethnic, racial, cultural, and socioeconomic differences and scientific racism have adversely affected the mental...

Multicultural counseling competencies in a pluralistic society.
January 1, 2004... Weinrach and Thomas (2002) have articulated a number of concerns raised by the proposed standards of multicultural counseling competencies (Arredondo et al., 1996). This response to their critique concludes that they have raised many legitimate...

Do we need multicultural counseling competencies?
January 1, 2004... Weinrach and Thomas (2002) have shown rather conclusively that the Competencies are irreparably flawed. The attempt to develop such a document was misguided in the first place. There is no need for such a document, and thus no purpose in...

Reactions to the Multicultural Counseling Competencies debate.
January 1, 2004... Two well-known cross-cultural counselor educators present their thoughts on some of the criticisms of the AMDC Multicultural Counseling Competencies. First, they posit their agreements and disagreements with Weinrach and Thomas' (2002) points...

The AMCD Multicultural Counseling Competencies: a critically flawed initiative.
January 1, 2004... This article responds to four reactions to Weinrach and Thomas's (2002) critique of the AMCD Multicultural Counseling Competencies. Among the major points made in the present article are the following: Although racial discrimination exists,...