Journal of Mental Health Counseling articles from July 2005

Journal of Mental Health Counseling archives from July 2005

The JMHC: alive and well and moving forward.(EDITORIALS)(Journal of Mental Health Counseling)
July 1, 2005... I am very honored and excited to be taking over as editor of the Journal of Mental Health Counseling (JMHC). I am especially pleased to be following in the footsteps of Dr. Carole Pistole whose stewardship of the journal over the past three...

The context of contribution: publishing practice articles in the Journal of Mental Health Counseling.(EDITORIALS)
July 1, 2005... THE COSMOLOGICAL CONTEXT OF CONTRIBUTION: THE REALLY BIG PICTURE We are born, we live and we die. Everything is born, lives and dies: from a quark to a grain of sand, to an ocean, to a human being, to a thought, to a star, to a galaxy......

Research submissions to JMHC: perspectives from the associate editor.(EDITORIALS)(Journal of Mental Health Counseling)
July 1, 2005... I am extremely pleased to serve as the Journal of Mental Health Counseling (JMHC) associate editor for research, especially as the role affords me the opportunity to work with such fine colleagues as Drs. Jim Rogers, Alex Hall, and Bernie...

The seamless transition: on exiting the JMHC editorship.(EDITORIALS)
July 1, 2005... Being editor of the Journal of Mental Health Counseling (JMHC) has been an honor, a privilege, a learning experience, and a pleasure. I developed many new relationships, through e-mails, particularly with authors and reviewers. Although I met a...

Truth or consequences: a neopragmatic critique of contemporary mental health culture.(THEORY)
July 1, 2005... The mental health counseling profession has increasingly identified with the values of contemporary mental health culture by adopting a descriptive, medicalized perspective. Using a postmodern, neopragmatic analysis, I argue that the...

Reaching out: mental health delivery outside the box.(SPECIAL SECTION: COUNSELING OUTSIDE OF THE UNITED STATES: LOOKING IN AND REACHING OUT)
July 1, 2005... Mental health does not exist in a vacuum. Indeed, a person's mental health can be influenced by sociocultural, political, and economic forces (Blustein, McWhirter, & Perry, 2005). For this reason, scholars in the mental health field have been...

Person-centered therapy with impoverished, maltreated, and neglected children and adolescents in Brazil.(SPECIAL SECTION: COUNSELING OUTSIDE OF THE UNITED STATES: LOOKING IN AND REACHING OUT)
July 1, 2005... This article reports on a program that provides person-centered therapy for impoverished, maltreated, and neglected children and adolescents in Brazil. The program, which is staffed by volunteer therapists, started in 2002. Since then, nearly...

Staying normal in an abnormal corner of the world: mental health counseling in Israel.(SPECIAL SECTION: COUNSELING OUTSIDE OF THE UNITED STATES: LOOKING IN AND REACHING OUT)
July 1, 2005... In the course of the last four years, Israeli citizens have repeatedly been exposed to terrorist attacks, and there are several other issues in Israel's current situation that highlight the need for intensive mental health counseling. The...

Counseling for adolescents and children at-risk in Italy.(SPECIAL SECTION: COUNSELING OUTSIDE OF THE UNITED STATES: LOOKING IN AND REACHING OUT)
July 1, 2005... The aim of the present article is to describe the difficulties experienced by some Italian children and adolescents. We distinguish, however, between overt forms of maladjustment, such as juvenile delinquency, drug addiction, depression, and...

Psychological and cultural influences on Koreans' help-seeking attitudes.(SPECIAL SECTION: COUNSELING OUTSIDE OF THE UNITED STATES: LOOKING IN AND REACHING OUT)
July 1, 2005... This study examined the influence of gender, cultural variables (i.e., horizontal and vertical individualism), and personal psychological variables (i.e., psychological distress, social-network orientation, and self-concealment) on attitudes...