Poetic Politics: How the Amazons Took the Acropolis

This paper explores the poetic politics of lesbian and feminist writing, the textual violence that writing exercises and the amazon intertext it creates. In this particular essay, Jeffner Alien takes as her point of departure the writing of Hélène Cixous and Monique Wittig.     

Ethical Standards: A Study of Application and Utility

Green, S.L., & Hansen, J.C. (1986). Ethical dilemmas in family therapy. Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, 12, 225–230.     

Programmatic Writing: A “What To” Option for Professional Publication

The authors examine programmatic writing as a method of increasing expertise and success for counselors desiring professional development and recognition through publication.     

Training Bartenders as Helpers on a College Campus

Student bartenders working in a college rathskeller are portrayed as “gatekeepers”: individuals at a strategic point of contact between mental health professionals and people in need of such service. This article describes a training program that sought to enhance the skills necessary to perform a variety of gatekeeping functions. The program, which took the form of a one-day workshop, included six major segments. The authors suggest that such a workshop is a potentially useful preventive mental health program for a college campus.     

The Effects of Early Religious Training: Implications for Counseling and Development

The simplistic conception of god commonly taught to children is distinguished from the God of theology and philosophy. There is evidence that children feel a considerable amount of anxiety in connection with their deity. A thorough analysis of the god of childhood reveals that many children believe in and internalize an authoritative being who is both good and evil, kind and abusive. Modeling of this being can continue into adulthood and may have a continuing effect on cognition and behavior. Implications for counseling and development are discussed.     

Rethinking Power

This paper argues that feminists have yet to develop a satisfactory account of power. Existing feminist accounts of power tend to have a one-sided emphasis either on power as domination or on power as empowerment. This conceptual one-sided’ ness must be overcome if feminists are to develop an account complex enough to illuminate women's diverse experiences with power. Such an account is sketched here.     

Culture-Specific Counseling: An Alternative Training Model

Culture-specific counseling has been proposed as a supplement to cross-cultural and multicultural approaches. In the culture-specific approach, we start with the culture and its peoples and search out natural helping styles. In contrast with the conventional approach of adapting existing counseling theory to “fit” a new culture, the culture-specific method seeks to generate new theory and technologies of helping. This preliminay study uses a case model drawn from African-Igbo culture and applies anthropological constructs that seek to discover a more culturally sensitive approach to counseling theory, to training in counseling skills and knowledge, and in using evaluative research techniques. The methods used in this report may be useful in generating a new set of theories more relevant to many different cultural groups. Se ha propuesto que la consejería culturalmente específica sirve como un complemento al acercamiento intercultural y multicultural. En el acercamiento culturalmente específico, empezamos con la cultura y sus gentes y buscamos estilos naturales de ayudar. En contraste con el acercamiento convencional en el que se adapta la teoría existente de consejería para que se ajuste a una cultura nueva, el método culturalmente específico procura engendrar nuevas teorías y técnicas de ayuda. Este estudio preliminar usa un caso modelo sacado de la cultura africana Igbo, aplicando constructos antropológicos que intentan descubrir un acercamiento más sensitivo a la teoría de consejeriá, preparación en habilidades y conocimientos de consejería, y en el uso de técnicas de investigación evaluativas. Los modelos usados en este artículo pueden ser útiles para engendrar un nuevo grupo de teorías mas pertinente para muchos grupos culturales diferentes.     

A Study of Explosive Rage in Male Spouses Counseled in an Appalachian Mental Health Clinic

A total of 51 cases of “explosive rage” were examined, which were culled from records at a rural mental health center in Appalachian (southeastern) Ohio. Some battering of the men's partners was involved, but a dichotomy was discovered between men who battered and men who destroyed or damaged property. A typology of the phenomenon is discussed along with implications for counseling and guiding these men back to temper control and more stable marital/interpersonal relationships. Se examinaron 51 casos de “violencia explosiva” que se tomaron de los archivos de una clínica rural de salud mental en Ohio apalache (en la parte sudeste del estado). Se incluyeron unos casos de violencia contra el elemento femenino de la pareja, pero se descubrió una diferencia entre hombres que golpean y hombres que destruyen propiedades. Se discute una tipología del fenomeno y las implicaciones para la consejería y la ayuda a estos hombres a controlar su violencia y mantener una relación matrimonial/interpersonal más estable.     

Protecting the Best Interests of Minors: A New Ethical Standard for Counselors

This article features a discussion concerning one of the revised ethical standards affecting counselors' work with minors.     

EMPLOYEE ATTITUDE SURVEYS IN A MULTINATIONAL ORGANIZATION: CONSIDERING LANGUAGE AND CULTURE IN ASSESSING MEASUREMENT EQUIVALENCE

The cross-cultural equivalence of a multinational employee opinion survey was examined using multiple-groups covariance structure analysis to examine 4 scales in 4 countries. Cultural and linguistic influences were considered by assessing equivalence across 2 pairs of countries having the same language but different cultures (U.S. and Australia, Mexico and Spain) and across countries differing in culture and language (U.S. and Mexico). The measure was equivalent across U.S. and Australian samples only. Analyses indicated items that were the source of lack of invariance. One cause explored was translation problems. Practical issues in assessing measurement equivalence in employee opinion surveys are discussed.