While traditional "talk" therapies remain at the foundation of counseling, the use of expressive and creative arts in conjunction with these methods can often deepen the healing process as well as expedite diagnosis, treatment and prevention. Integrating the Expressive Arts into Counseling Practice is designed to provide readers with an understanding of the ways in which expressive arts counsel...

While traditional "talk" therapies remain at the foundation of counseling, the use of expressive and creative arts in conjunction with these methods can often deepen the healing process as well as expedite diagnosis, treatment and prevention. Integrating the Expressive Arts into Counseling Practice is designed to provide readers with an understanding of the ways in which expressive arts counsel...

In this paper, we introduce our counseling dialog system. Our system interacts with users by recognizing what the users say, predicting the context, and following the users‟ feelings. For this interaction, our system follows three basic counseling techniques: paraphrasing, asking open questions, and reflecting feelings. To follow counseling techniques, we extracted 5W1H information and user emo...

We review two new HIV counseling and testing guidelines by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The guidelines, which address the general population and pregnant women, reflect an important shift in the goals and methods of counseling and testing that has widespread implications. The guidelines' defining characteristic is the greater emphasis on increasing the numbers of people ...

The main component of tinnitus retraining therapy (TRT) is structured counseling. We conducted a randomized clinical trial to test the hypothesis that group educational counseling based on TRT principles would effectively treat veterans who have clinically significant tinnitus. Veterans with clinically significant tinnitus were randomized into one of three groups: educational counseling, tradit...

OBJECTIVES To assess pediatrician goals and practice in preventive counseling, and to use social learning theory to examine physician attitudes about preventive health issues, time, and reimbursement to explain physician counseling behavior. DESIGN Random sample survey of American Academy of Pediatrics fellows. PARTICIPANTS A total of 1620 pediatricians were surveyed with a return rate of 7...

BACKGROUND The 5As model for behavior change counseling is an evidence-based counseling approach. This study aims to explore the relationship between patient satisfaction with counseling services and 5As interventions in tobacco cessation. We also investigated the impact of satisfaction with counseling services on patients' intention to quit and recommendation of those services to other tobacco...

OBJECTIVE The objectives of this study were to describe the prevalence of counseling services, contrasted with the need after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, the types of counseling received, and the predictors of receipt of counseling services. METHODS A cross-sectional, random-digit-dial survey was conducted in New York City (NYC) of parents (N = 434) of children who were 4 to ...

PURPOSE Systematic educational programs and genetic counseling certification courses for hereditary breast/ovarian cancer (HBOC) have not yet been introduced in Korea. We provided and evaluated the effects of genetic counseling education on Korean healthcare providers' knowledge, awareness, and counseling skills for patients at high risk of HBOC. METHODS A 3-day educational program was conduc...