Journal of Humanistic Counseling, Education and Development articles from September 2007

Journal of Humanistic Counseling, Education and Development archives from September 2007

Relational and transcendental humanism: exploring the consequences of a thoroughly pragmatic humanism.
September 22, 2007... The relational and transcendental elements of humanism are considered. Although the relational component of humanism is extraordinarily valuable, the author argues that the transcendental portion of humanism should be abandoned. The...

Wellness and counselor education.(THEORY, PRACTICE, AND APPLICATION)
September 22, 2007... Given the emotional nature of the counseling profession, stress, fatigue, and burnout are constant threats. Although such difficulties cannot be eliminated, counseling training can ensure that future counselors are ready to deal more...

Humanistic wellness services for community mental health providers.
September 22, 2007... The author examines the unique ability of mental health providers to offer humanistic services in a highly competitive atmosphere by using a wellness approach. J. E. Myers and T. J. Sweeney's (2005) 5 second-order factors are offered as a...

Psychological debriefing may not be clinically effective: implications for a humanistic approach to trauma intervention.
September 22, 2007... Formal psychological debriefing in the wake of a traumatic experience seems to have no impact on the development of posttraumatic symptoms. This article addresses whether a more appropriate alternative would be a less-structured, more flexible...

Experiential learning workshop for Indian students.
September 22, 2007... An experiential workshop was offered to graduate psychology students at a major university in India. The workshop combined Western group counseling concepts with Yoga and indigenous peoples' psychological understandings to help students connect...

Empathizing with Harry Potter: the use of popular literature in counselor education.
September 22, 2007... It is evident from a review of literature that researchers strongly emphasize the use of contextual teaching, which results in situated learning, as part of counselor education (Granello, 2000; Nelson & Neufeldt, 1998). Situated learning, or...

Real cases with African American clients: reports of racially diverse practitioners.
September 22, 2007... By calling attention to human factors such as cultural biases, mistakes made, and lessons learned from real clinical scenarios, these racially diverse practitioners use their counseling experiences to offer a people-responsive,...

Counseling persons with comorbid disorders: a quantitative comparison of counselor active rehabilitation service and standard rehabilitation counseling approaches.(RESEARCH)
September 22, 2007... The purpose of this quantitative study was to investigate the effect of counselor active rehabilitation service compared with the effect of standard rehabilitation counseling in assisting individuals with coexisting psychiatric and substance...

Wellness in the midst of adversity and tragedy.(REFLECTIONS ON WELLNESS)
September 22, 2007... This article addresses the strategies that 1 African American counselor educator uses to maintain a sense of wellness and balance in her life by focusing on religion and spirituality, physical fitness, family life, multitasking, cultural...

Star Gazers.(POETRY)(Poem)(Brief article)
September 22, 2007... Star Gazers Out here on the dock's edge deep in clear, black night a blanket of crystals lights the world and warms the gazer's soul. A loon laughs at mid-lake as if to mock peace. Once it's there, then...

New.(POETRY)(Poem)
September 22, 2007... New "To feel new.., no, not to feel new, but to be new... I just want to be new again..." So simply stated was your goal--and yet profound--with no further explanation than your terse summation, "the...