Ethics and endings in group psychotherapy: saying good-bye and saying it well.

Endings in group psychotherapy are suffused with complexity and potential conflict, some of which entail ethical quandaries. Ethical issues attending endings in group therapy are explored through a discussion of informed consent, time and role boundaries, privacy and confidentiality, unplanned endings, therapist-initiated termination, and competence. Findings from an exploratory survey of members of the American Group Psychotherapy Association and clinical-ethical vignettes are presented to highlight these issues.

The student perspective of psychology practica training.

Providing practicum training to graduate students is a valued activity of many mental health settings. Practica are also crucial to the training and socialization of future mental health practitioners. This research surveyed 321 doctoral psychology students about expectations of their practicum training sites versus what they actually received in fundamental domains including supervision, client contact, assessment, and research.

Twenty-first century education: toward greater emphasis on context-social, economic, and educational.

In calling for a greater emphasis on the social, economic, and educational contexts, the discussion presented in this article is generally supportive of C.R. Snyder and T.

The body's story: a case report of hypnosis and physiological narration of trauma.

Adult Posttraumatic Stress Disorder secondary to childhood sexual abuse is clinically complicated by its increasingly noted deficient linguistic recording of the abuse, perhaps partially explaining consequent difficulties with verbalizing in therapy. A single case illustrates that hypnotically utilizing the body-emotion register of encrypted sexual abuse trauma may not only afford more naturalistic retrieval and purgation of the experience, but may also provide the very medium for the healing narrative required for recovery. The patient's original and continuing therapist was also present as support and observer for all but 1 of 25 hypnosis sessions.

Justifiable Psychopharmacology or Overzealous Prescription? Examining Parental Reports of Lifetime Prescription Histories of Psychiatrically Hospitalised Children.

Background:   This research investigated parent reports of pre-admission psychotropic medication histories of psychiatrically hospitalised children in the United States. The emphasis was on identifying factors related to potentially overzealous medication use.

Method:   Diagnosis, insurance type, and demographics for 170 consecutive admissions were assessed via research case conference and chart review.

Factors influencing the ultrasonic separation of oil-in-water emulsions.

Ultrasound may have inherent shortcomings that preclude its ability to coagulate grease from wastewater, yet these may be overcome by the simultaneous application of electrolysis. We studied the role of pH, conductivity, temperature, ultrasound intensity and duration, and electrolysis voltage, current, and duration, in the study treatment. Conductivity was found to be the most significant factor, however interactions among the eight study variables are likely more important than individual factors.

The 1996 Mount Everest tragedy: contemplation on group process and group dynamics.

In May 1996, one of the most tragic Mt. Everest climbing seasons was about to unfold, and five climbers would perish in the "Death Zone" miles above the earth's surface. This article considers the events from a group dynamic and group process perspective in an attempt to understand what might have been happening to the group members.

Forensic evaluations of adolescents: psychosocial and clinical considerations.

The forensic evaluation of an adolescent who has been arrested or is facing adjudication has important ramifications for the youth's present and future welfare. This paper reviews the knowledge base pertinent to forensic evaluations of adolescents, including the legal, social, developmental, and psychological factors underpinning such assessments. It then outlines an approach to assessment that employs a tripartite model of history, interviews and observations, and psychological tests.

Application of Conservation Biology Research to Management.

We conducted a survey of all primary authors of "Contributed Papers" and "Research Notes" in Conservation Biology from 1987 to 1998 to assess the perceived effectiveness of published management recommendations. No systematic survey has previously assessed the degree to which authors believe that resource managers are using the growing body of research published in Conservation Biology. In March 1999, we sent surveys to 667 authors of 790 published papers, asking whether their papers included management recommendations, whether such recommendations have been used in practice, and why they believed they have or have not been used.

Foraging ecology of the mountain monkey (Cercopithecus l'hoesti): implications for its evolutionary history and use of disturbed forest.

We present the first systematic field study on the feeding ecology of the mountain monkey (Circopithecus l'hoesti), a semi-terrestrial guenon. We compare our results with findings from a concurrent study of blue monkeys (C. mitis doggetti, which have an overlapping home range) conducted over ten months in the Nyungwe Forest Reserve, Rwanda.

Mohawks and combat boots: the schizoid dilemma of punks.

The author explores how clinicians may use the construct of the schizoid dilemma as a means to understand young adult punk rockers. The basic dilemma, in Fairbairn's formulation, is whether to withdraw from relational attachments because of a history of disappointments by others. The punk phenomenon may be understood as an object-relational stance resulting from a particular resolution of the schizoid dilemma.

A genogram with an attitude.

The approach described in this paper is predicated on the fundamental belief that in order to become competent and ethical practitioners, students must understand themselves and how they see others. They must be given tools and skills that facilitate examination of their own assumptions and beliefs about themselves, others, and how the world works. It is also essential that students examine how these assumptions and beliefs will influence the way they choose to conduct therapy.

Effects of brief therapy training on practicing psychotherapists and their clients.

A ten hour brief therapy training program with format representative of postgraduate training workshops was delivered to practicing psychotherapists at three public clinics. Training procedures and content were specified and provided to program participants in a manual. Clinician volunteers (n = 22) were randomly assigned to Training (n = 12) and Control (n = 10) conditions.

Coming of age in a heterosexist world: the development of gay and lesbian adolescents.

The general developmental struggles of gay and lesbian adolescents are described as delineated in recent research. Three developmental areas were selected as a focus: the consolidation of sexual identity and the effects of both parental and peer relationships on gay adolescents' development. Weaknesses are noted in current research and theory, and suggestions are offered which could facilitate the development of both homosexual and heterosexual youth.

Exploring the Effects of Mood Checklist Pretesting on Experimental Mood Induction Procedures.

Research was conducted to investigate the potential impact of mood checklist (MAACL) pretesting upon the Velten experimental mood induction procedure. Multivariate analyses (MANOVA and ANCOVA) of the three MAACL subscales (Depression, Anxiety, and Hostility) suggest that variance unique to Anxiety, and that shared between Anxiety and the other subscales, is affected by pretesting, including both a main effect and a pretesting X Velten interaction. In contrast, the Velten manipulation impacted only variance unique to Depression and variance shared between Depression and the other two subscales.