Individualistic and Collective Approaches to Counseling: Preference,Personal Orientation,Gender, and Age

This study examined preference for an individualistic or collective approach to counseling and the relationship of preference to (a) personal orientation to individualism-collectivism, (b) gender, and (c) age. Sixty-six female and 47 male participants completed an individualism-collectivism scale and a counseling approach preference measure. Results indicated situation-specific preferences for a collective or individualistic counseling approach, no relationship between personal orientation to individualism-collectivism and preference for a comparable counseling approach, and inconsistent, perhaps situation-specific, relationships of gender and age to counseling approach. Implications for practice and future research are discussed.     

No Work and All Play: An Analysis of a Response Style on the Strong-Campbell Interest Inventory

Clients who place no significance on work, or who are not committed to work, present the career counselor with a challenging situation. The effects of the response style of such clients on the scales of the Strong-Campbell Interest Inventory are examined and alternative interpretations are discussed.     

The ethics of creative growth

Explicitly ethical discussions among guidance and personnel professionals generally involve intraprofessional concerns and the specifying of minimal standards of professional behavior. The author of this article proposes that wider, more challenging, ethical issues should not be treated as special topics within these professions but should be considered crucial parts of the mainstream of ethical thought and practice. This shift would help to make critical moral problems the professional concern of all guidance and personnel workers, not the specialty of only a few.     

Using the Spiritual Perspective in Counseling Persons with HIV/AIDS: An Integrative Approach

The authors explore counseling persons infected with HIV and AIDS, within the specific themes of rejection, powerlessness, and death. These themes have been chosen because they are common concerns of people with HIV and AIDS. Selected quotations from 14 interviews with persons diagnosed with HIV/AIDS are used to clarify these concerns. Specific counseling recommendations are provided to make counseling an effective, compassionate endeavor with this population. Counselors are encouraged to struggle with these themes to enhance the counseling they provide to people with HIV and AIDS.     

Assessment of Religious Beliefs Form

Religion may be a source of spiritual strength or a source of conflict and guilt. This article outlines the importance of assessing the religious beliefs of clients for treatment purposes and provides a format for the counselor to utilize. Because counselors may be unaware of their clients' individual perspectives, it is important to evaluate a clients' belief system from a holistic perspective during the intake process.