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An introduction is presented in which the editor discusses articles in the issue on topics including computer and internet-based technologies for psychotherapy and supervision; internet-delivered services, describing interventions including text‐chat, email and video conferencing.

This study determined how multiple ecodevelopmental domains influenced dysphoria in a community sample of Latina adolescents. Risk factors tested include childhood maltreatment, parental alcohol-related problems, and polysubstance problems. Protective factors include general self-efficacy, social conformity, and family connection. Female participants ( N = 904) were recruited from the Los Angeles area. Many significant correlations were found between the ecodevelopmental domains and dysphoria. The strongest unique protective factor was family connection; others were social conformity and general self-efficacy. The only unique risk factor that emerged was physical neglect. © 2007 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Feedback is defined as a response to an action that shapes or adjusts that action in subsequent performance. Though its pervasiveness in human behavior is noted, feedback in clinical practice is a deliberate psychological intervention that has two essential functions, information and influence. Feedback can be descriptive, evaluative, emotional, and interpretive. The role of feedback in promoting change through interpersonal influence and the role of resistance in the feedback process are discussed. We present practical examples and suggestions for maximizing the effectiveness of feedback and responding therapeutically to resistance. Current outcome research on feedback as a major component of treatment is reviewed and discussed. Implications of the feedback literature for practice are provided. © 2004 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Clin Psychol/In Session. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Doctoral training programs in psychology are accredited by the American Psychological Association in four areas: Clinical, Counseling, School, and Combined-Integrated (C-I) psychology. Each area of doctoral preparation in psychology has its own council, which represents its interests within the field and to external constituents. Despite the fact that Combined-Integrated training programs have existed since the mid-1970s, the Consortium representing this area's interests only formed in the past two years. The purpose of this article was to obtain input from representatives of all five training councils regarding the role of the newly formed council in relation to the other councils and the role of Combined-Integrated training. We begin with a brief description of each of the five councils. We then summarize the representatives' responses to narrative questions regarding advantages and disadvantages associated with meeting to discuss the combined model. Finally, common and divergent themes across the councils in training psychologists are presented, and the future role for Combined-Integrated programs is discussed. © 2004 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Clin Psychol. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

S. G. Weinrach, D. Lustig, F. Chan, and K. R. Thomas (1998) made unwarranted claims about the number of psychologists publishing in the Journal of Counseling & Development during 1978 to 1993 as well as their membership in the American Counseling Association. The authors' claims are evaluated and then discussed in the context of the long-standing counseling-counseling psychology relationship. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Evaluates the reasons literature can not be used as an efficient measure to the type of approaches which can be used for supervision in counselor education. Implications to understanding the effectiveness of a supervision approach; Reference to the use of training; Role of individual differences in supervision.

This article contains highlights of an interview with Edward Bordin, who later died on August 24, 1992, after a long battle with prostate cancer. It focuses both on his professional history and contributions to the field as well as on his personal life. We were honored to learn from his wife Ruth that portions of the material that follows were read at his funeral service. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Both the terminally ill and those responsible for their care may experience conflict and limited freedom of choice with respect to the right to die. Derek Humphry, founder of the Hemlock Society, shares his personal experience, as well as his efforts to educate the public and stimulate legal reform. He has dedicated more than a decade of prime professional years to this highly charged universal problem.
Dealing with issues of death and dying will likely become an increasing part of counselors' work as they extend their services to the aged (Dychtwald, 1981) and to ill populations (Kain, 1989; Thoresen & Eagleton, 1985). But despite the growing literature on death and dying, the issue has yet to shed fully the sort of taboos discussed over a quarter of a century, ago in a collection of papers edited by Farberow (1963). In this collection, noted psychologists discussed the ways in which our values, conventions, and sense of propriety influence the ways we confront death--or avoid doing so. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article presents information on the Career Counseling Center (CCC) at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). It is informed that UCLA was founded in 1947 to provide returning veterans with vocational counseling. The CCC charges a fee of dollar 660 for services that are time limited. CCC was never incorporated into the university as a student service facility with a specified annual budget. Instead, it remains affiliated with UCLA's extension division and is responsible for generating sufficient revenue to support its operation, including overhead to UCLA extension. CCC's counseling approach relies heavily on psychological testing. Infact, clients commit themselves to 15 to 20 hours of testing that is taken in two separate batteries-- one after the first session and another after the second session. It is informed that because of the fee charged by CCC for providing its services, most of its clients are people from the community and not students. It is informed that Bill Levy is the director of CCC and Aida Hillway is the assistant director. On observing these colleagues, one is struck by the obvious respect and easy familiarity that has evolved over a period of long professional association and a common mission of maintaining the CCC as a viable entity.

The article presents the historical sketch and future perspectives of "Journal of Counseling and Development". A key aspect in any definition of a profession is that it has a body of knowledge that is uniquely its own; an essential corollary is that a profession has its own history. The journal's history in many ways mirrors that of the profession itself. Its forerunner was the National Vocational Guidance Bulletin, published continuously since 1921, that publication has evolved into the present "Journal of Counseling and Development". The editors of the journal have had a pronounced effect on its focus. Over the years, many factors have influenced the content of the journal. The diversity of the readers has been an issue with which editors of this journal have grappled through most of its history. The journal has a long history of excellent service to the profession of counseling. This success is the result of both the policy of the editorial and the contributions from the readers themselves; alone, neither could be sufficient.

This article comments on some aspects of social psychology. The scholar E.I. Heck raised a point arguing increase in counseling professionalism. He observes correctly that eventually one must be willing to take a stand on the boundaries that define what counseling is not. The author says that his observation is that one such choice seems to have been to focus on practice in such a manner as to minimize its association with scholarship and research. AACD has always been practitioner-oriented. Swept along by the various trends that have accompanied credentialing and licensure, though, practice seems increasingly divorced from research and scholarship. The loss is not only of knowledge that is gained through research but also of the type of critical thinking and problem-solving approaches that the scientist-practitioner might bring to his or her work. The author says that he believes that it is no coincidence, too, that counseling psychologists who are members of AACD increasingly are being regarded by some among AACD's leadership as not counselors. This sort of blanket discrimination is quite unfortunate. Many counseling psychologists are members of AACD, and over the years there have been a number of individuals who have been leaders both in APGA/AACD and in APA's Division of Counseling Psychology.

The article focuses on Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) which is a useful tool in counseling.. MBTI is a pencil-and-paper measure of people's preferences with regard to perception and judgment, according to the concepts of counselor C.G. Jung. It contains four bi-polar scales as follows: extraversion or intraversion, sensing or intuitive, thinking or feeling, judgment or perception. Items consist of paired statements reflecting preferences relating to each scale and yield numerical scores on each of the eight poles. The scores are used to identify the dominant preferences a person has for each of the four types and result in a four-letter code. Each of the 16 possible code types is considered to have unique behavioral patterns. The MBTI is purported to have applications in education, counseling, and career guidance, as well as in situations requiring cooperation and teamwork, and in communications. The instrument is currently enjoying a great popularity but has been severely criticized for several of its features.

The author of this editorial starts second of his two 3-year terms as Journal of Counseling and Development (JCD) editor with this September, 1987 issue. Nancy Garfield served as associate editor during the first three years of his editorship. Nancy excels in management and administration. Because of a substantial portion of the editorship involves these functions and because these are among the less well-developed of the author's own skills, he is particularly grateful for the contributions Nancy was able to make to JCD editorial operations. Also departing are Gerald Hanna and Andrew Schauer. They had agreed at the outset to co-edit the Testing the Test feature for one term only. They deserve particular thanks for reinstituting this important feature as one of high quality. Editorial board members constitute the unsung heroes who ensure the success of any journal. Certainly that is true for JCD. The author thanks to all those Editorial Board members with whom he has worked and the many people who have served as ad hoc reviewers.

The article focuses on the support of various universities to the American Association for Counseling and Development (AACD) journals. Appreciating the nurturing work environment and supportive colleagues at Kansas State University it reflects on the substantial though, generally unacknowledged role played by the academic institutions in supporting AACD's journals. The article also acknowledges the fact that AACD's journals are subsidized by the institutions (predominantly universities). Most of the AACD journal editors work in university settings. The relationship is symbiotic because the housing of a journal at a particular university is supposed to enhance its prestige. It gives example of Journal for Counseling and Development (JCD), which was apparently subsidized by Harvard University and J.C. Penney Foundation. In return for the prestige of having a journal based with it, a university will in turn offer its support and resources. It wonders at the effect this arrangement will have in a non-university settings.

The article discusses the contribution of technology in counseling. The article points out that technology enabled the industrialization that helped give rise to vocational guidance. The adoption of audiotaping modified not only the counselor training and supervision but also enhanced the very understanding of the counseling process. Technological changes in the workplace have influenced vocational counseling. With advances in medical technology, counselors have been forced to become sensitive to the ethical dilemmas that arise when they facilitate decision making in the areas such as genetic counseling. No other technology has had more potential to affect the profession than has the computer. Routine applications has been made possible due to the computer technology. According to the articles publications like "The Counseling Psychologist," "Elementary School Guidance and Counseling," and "Counselor Education and Supervision," helps to bring the together the professionals and the computers.