Showing papers in "Professional Psychology in 1976"

Sex Between Therapists and Clients: A Review and Analysis

Abstract: A review of every available case of sex between therapists and clients reveals that the majority had negative effects. Specific ways in which sexual involvement develops are discussed, as are methods for dealing with the therapeutic aspects of sexual feelings and fantasies. The opposition to sexual contact between therapists and clients is powerful, almost as strong as the incest taboo. Only recently have opposing viewpoints appeared in print that discuss the possibility of positive outcomes of patient-therapist contacts. Those who suggest that sexual contact may not be all negative have occasioned great controversy within the professional community. Regardless of what position an individual takes on this issue, it is evident that erotic contacts do take place, and that they are more prevalent than the professional community would like to acknowledge. There is a need not only to explore the negative and positive consequences of such re

The African Genesis of the Black Perspective in Helping

Abstract: This article suggests that black Americans can be understood best from a design that recognizes a cultural connection to Africa, and it shows, through the illustration of specific strategies, that the more advantageous treatment of black clients would be based on an Afro perspective.

Disseminating a behavioral approach to energy conservation.

Abstract: The low credibility of psychologists in the area of environmental protection, organizational, and ecological variables, and the importance of proper timing of research proposals must be overcome in order to gain monetary support for research programs on energy conservation behavior. The author relates his experiences in seeking support for a study on the effects of incentives on promoting residential energy conservation. An update of the original article notes that some projects are now funded. Results indicate that incentives and feedback might be effective under moderate temperature conditions, but not under more extreme conditions. The update also emphasizes the value of interdisciplinary work. 21 references.

A community psychology approach to police training.

Abstract: Suggests that the backlash effect which accompanies most innovative police training programs is partly the result of the failure of these programs to take a community psychology conceptual view of the police in the context of the social system. The present article describes the involvement of psychologists with police in a training program that was based on a coherent general systems intervention program consistent with a model of community psychology. Participants in a workshop were 20 senior sergeants in the police department of Queensland, Australia, a community of both urban and rural areas. Average age of Ss was over 50 yrs, and the average term of service was 30 yrs. Working on the premise that previous difficulties in police programs have involved problems with the media, with police attitudes toward the psychologists and the program, and with citizen attitudes toward the police, the 2 psychologists who designed and conducted the workshop concentrated on these 3 areas of concern, using the general systems model of community psychology. Positive results are reported. Implications of the positive results for seeing community psychology as process rather than content are discussed. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved).