Journal of Humanistic Counseling, Education and Development articles from March 2005

Journal of Humanistic Counseling, Education and Development archives from March 2005

Postmodernism and humanism: a proposed integration of perspectives that value human meaning systems.
March 22, 2005... Both postmodernism and humanism place a high value on individual differences in meaning systems. However, there are significant theoretical barriers to integrating these systems into a counseling orientation. A theoretical integration is...

Facilitating the identity development of counseling graduate students as researchers.
March 22, 2005... Despite concerted efforts to modify research training environments to facilitate interest in research, graduate students in applied areas of counseling publish at low rates. This article discusses 2 identity development theories and provides...

Common factors: where the soul of counseling and psychotherapy resides.
March 22, 2005... The authors show how theoretical and empirical findings from the common factors and psychotherapy integration literatures possess potential for infusing soul into psychotherapy. They describe the term soul, outline how the definition translates...

Promoting tolerance for ambiguity in counselor training programs.
March 22, 2005... Counselors-in-training are challenged with the ambiguity inherent in skill acquisition and development processes. This article explores the concept of ambiguity and ambiguity tolerance in counselors-in-training. A framework is provided for...

Multidimensional perfectionism and Rogerian personality constructs.
March 22, 2005... The Feelings, Reactions, and Beliefs Survey (FRBS) was administered to 141 undergraduate students to evaluate differences in Rogerian personality constructs among adaptive, maladaptive, and nonperfectionists. The groups differed significantly...

Personal definitions of masculinity and femininity as an aspect of gender self-concept.
March 22, 2005... Analyses of responses to the Hoffman Gender Scale (R. M. Hoffman, L. D. Borders, & J. A. Hattie, 2000) questions "What do you mean by femininity?" (female respondents) and "What do you mean by masculinity?" (male respondents) provided a...

Optimizing the informal curriculum: one counselor education program model.
March 22, 2005... An annual project involving students and faculty in a collaborative, 6-month planning process that culminates in a half-day program with both didactic and experiential components is presented as a model for creating powerful learning...

Teaching assessment and appraisal: humanistic strategies and activities for counselor educators.
March 22, 2005... This article describes the incorporation of humanistic strategies and interactive activities for counselor educators who teach counseling courses in assessment or appraisal. This information helps demonstrate the utility qt practical humanistic...

Courage: its nature and development.
March 22, 2005... Courage is presented as the energizing catalyst for choosing growth over safety needs. A content analysis of the literature reveals 3 dimensions of courage: fear, appropriate action, and a higher purpose. Guidelines and strategies for...

Motivations, philosophy, and therapeutic approaches of a child-centered play therapist: an interview with Garry L. Landreth.(Interview)
March 22, 2005... To encourage counselors to implement humanistic approaches with children, the author conducted an interview with Garry Landreth, a renowned child-centered play therapist. Landreth's motivations, theoretical philosophy, therapeutic approaches,...