Psychoeducational Assessment of Racial and Ethnic Minority Groups: Professional Implications

The authors address the consumer's need for more information by describing a framework for integrating test data when it applies to minority children and their families. Test bias has a long history; the progression to nonbiased assessment includes legal decisions and guidelines, further training and education for professionals who test, and greater awareness of issues for all consumers of test data.     

Resistance to Consultation: A Synthesis for Counselor-Consultants

The authors list and describe a number of types of consultee resistance that commonly occur during consultation and discuss methods and techniques for dealing with each. The article concludes with suggestions for empirical research to determine the effectiveness of various strategies for dealing with consultee resistance.     

PROGRAM EVALUATION

The following article is a first in a series to be offered by the Professional Development Committee and your Journal. Each article will feature some resource materials which might be used by the individual counselor or school. The materials are offered as possible means for the continued growth and development of counseling and guidance within our parochial schools. Your reactions to the basic idea, format and materials are eagerly solicited.     

Occupational Movement: Employment Counselor Perceptions of Job Change

Missouri Employment Service counselors were surveyed to determine why they had changed jobs and why, in their opinion, other people change jobs. The counselors reported that they had changed occupations because of job interest and financial reasons, and that they had entered counseling because of a real interest in the field. Most of them who anticipated making a future change said it was because of dissatisfaction with working conditions, and they planned to continue counseling in another setting. The counselors' experiences led them to believe that other people change jobs primarily because of lack of satisfaction, but they noted that financial considerations are also important.     

An Investigation of the Athletic Career Expectations of High School Student Athletes

The purpose of this study was to examine the athletic expectations of high school male athletes and identify factors related to these expectations.     

Time Management as a Stressor for Helping Professionals: Implications for Employment

This study summarizes and compares the findings of 5 studies completed between 1984 and 1994 that dealt with the factors that cause stress for 4 groups of helping professionals: regular classroom teachers, special education teachers, nurses in a tertiary care hospital, and social workers in child welfare. Time and its effective management proved to be the most significant stressor category for all groups. Possible explanations for the persistence of time management concerns in these helping professions, and possible implications for employment counselors, both as helpers and information providers to those who seek to enter such professions, are proposed.     

心理治療在慢性精神分裂症中的应用

心理治疗在精神分裂症中的应用曾經历曲折的过程。自从1933年胰島素昏迷、卞地查痙攣、电痙攣等一系列所謂“休克疗法”相继問世并大大提高精神分裂症的疗效以后,各国学者对精神分裂症的研究曾重点轉移到神經、內分泌、代謝障碍等方面的病理生理和生化問題上,并且获得了丰碩的成果,因而对心理治疗的兴趣就显著地減退了。然而目前神經、高級神經活动生理或生化机制并不能圓滿地解释病人所呈現的各种特殊的心理現象,所以心理动力学的問題随着神經生理和生化方面研究的深入发展,又引起人們的注     

试论家庭治疗的理论基础

按照历史发展的顺序,从精神分析、系统论与控制论、依附理论以及建构主义这四个方面对家庭治疗的理论基础进行了论述,并对这四种理论取向对家庭治疗的贡献以及依附理论与家庭治疗的异同进行了探讨.