BACKGROUND Voluntary Counseling and Testing (VCT) is an HIV prevention strategy that promotes the principles of confidentiality and informed consent. International research has highlighted VCT counselors' isolation from service planning and the contradictions they negotiate between local values and global testing recommendations. In Brazil, studies have identified many limitations, including co...

This research focused on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), which is one of the third wave Cognitive Behavioral approaches, its core concept psychological flexibility specific to work environment school counselors. In this regard, study’s purpose was first analyze relationship between counselors’ mindfulness wellbeing, second mediating effect work-related in wellbeing. With mind, The Mind...

This paper develops a controlling instrument for data warehouse systems based on the Balanced Scorecard BSC approach. On the basis of the technological aspects of data warehouse systems, the BSC perspectives are developed and populated with relevant objectives and measures for data warehouse success. These perspectives are integrated into a consistent data warehouse scorecard. Finally, this ins...

According to the results of the 2007 National Physician Survey (NPS), 4.8% of FPs in Canada estimate that 10% or more of their practice populations have problems with substance addiction. Substance addiction has a substantial effect on the rates of morbidity, mortality, and health care use in Canada.1 Kahan et al2 recently demonstrated that a shared care model for treating patients with addicti...

The training of counselors who work in a correctional institution setting presents a unique set of challenges. and yet no mention of it exists in the forensic psychiatry literature. There has been some writing about psychintric intervention with prisoners (e.g .. Roth and Ervin. 197P). but for the most part. on-the-line counseling work in correctional institutions is performed by people with li...

Constructivist theory offers alternative approaches to career development and counseling. Based on holistic approach, constructivism emphasizes the self-organizing principles underlying human experience. The decision to use a constructivist framework for career counseling resulted from the observation that youth often were not lacking career information; instead, they did not feel empowered or ...

The author provides a brief review of the clinical and research literature on individual and family resilience. The review includes resilience-focused frameworks that may have relevance to counselors working in varied contexts who provide strength-based counseling. School, family, and mental health counselors are encouraged to consider the potential utility of infusing the construct of resilien...

Developing a personal theory of counseling is essential for beginning counselors. Current approaches deemphasize life experiences before graduate training and fail to incorporate counselor developmental stages. This article presents a framework for strengthening development of a personal theory of counseling by integrating life experiences and counselor developmental stages with theory building...