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Counselor attitudes and person-centered therapy with Doris

What is your attitude about Doris wanting to leave her husband and her child? How would your own values influence the way you would work with her?

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Therapist confidentiality and HIV disclosure obligations

A therapist is bound to keep his or her patient's confidentiality unless the patient presents a danger to himself or others. In the case of 'John' an HIV-positive patient who is engaging in unprotected sexual relationships, there is clearly a risk being posed to John's partner.

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Why people disclose personal information to strangers

Intuitively, one would expect that it is always easier and more appropriate to discuss personal issues with close friends and acquaintances and to do so much less with relative strangers.

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The role of school counselors in supporting students with disabilities

What is the role of the school counselor? According to an article in Urban Education the school counselor is an advocate, "champion of social justice, social change agent," and a professional that is hired to increase "achievement and educational opportunities" for all students.

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Symbolism and resistance in Linda Hogan's Mean Spirit

In "Showdown at Sorrow Cave: Bat Medicine and the Spirit of Resistance in Mean Spirit," Andrea Musher analyzes a critical scene in Linda Hogan's novel Mean Spirit. The scene is momentous, even though Musher admits it is not the literary climax of the novel.

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Person-centered therapy and its criticisms in modern practice

Person-centered therapy brings a highly non-directive approach to the therapeutic relationship.

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Contrasting Siano and Centerwall on television violence's effects on children

Does viewing violence on television increase a child's aggression? This paper reviews and reports on two points-of-view on the subject. This paper also takes a position on the issues at hand once a thorough thrashing out of the two writers' points-of-view are portrayed.

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Moral and ethical debates surrounding embryonic stem cell research

In recent years, embryonic stem cell research has become a hotly debated issue that is charged with emotion.

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How human needs shaped the miniaturization of consumer technology

Why does technology take its current form? One aspect of modern technological design is clear, even to the untrained naked eye: it is getting smaller. The first computers were the size of small rooms; today's laptops can fit in a small backpack.

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Nuclear energy as an alternative to fossil fuels and other sustainable sources

The consensus among scientists is that there is an ongoing environmental crisis a large part of which is associated with Global Warming (Poiman & Poiman, 2007).

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