Allen Ivey

• EDD, ABPP
• Professor Emeritus at University of Massachusetts Amherst

Intentional group leadership focuses on group work with an emphasis on culture and social justice using Allen Ivey's seminal Microskills. Although, the primary emphasis is on therapeutic group counseling, the strategies identified and presented would be useful for group work in all settings.

This article memorializes Lawrence Martin Brammer (1922-2018). Brammer was the president of Division 17 (Counseling Psychology) of the American Psychological Association (APA) from 1986 to 1987 and Fellow of the Society for Counseling Psychology. Over his long career, he received many awards and made major contributions to the field, including exte...

Divided into four sections, this chapter summarizes how attention serves as a basis for counseling and therapy practice and establishes its neuroscientific foundation. Section I. The Neuroscience of Attention focuses on key brain structures basic to attention-alerting, orienting, and executive functioning. Section II. Attention, Empathic Understand...

Neuroscience can inform theoretical orientation by providing the biological basis for how client issues are developed and resolved. An understanding of neuroscience and neurobiology can deepen your understanding of how the brain may be responding to treatment. This chapter will review a few select theories, to demonstrate how most theories may bene...

Shows how the brain reacts during listening and empathic moments.

Originating in 1966-68, Microcounseling was the first video-based listening program and its purposes and methods overlap with the communications field. This article presents history, research, and present applications in multiple fields nationally and internationally. Recent neuroscience and neurobiology research is presented with the important poi...

Presents an obituary for Roger Alan Myers, who passed away September 13, 2015, in Stuart, Florida, at age 85. Meyers was a long-time national leader of counseling psychology. (PsycINFO Database Record

Your Supervised Practicum and Internship is a complete, up-to-date guide to everything a graduate student in the helping professions needs for a successful practicum, internship or field experience. This helpful resource takes students through the necessary fundamentals of field experience, helping them understand the supervision process and their...

Summary from a day long workshop at the 2015 American Counseling Association Conference in Orlando, FL.

Fourteen community people were trained as drug counsellors through 40 hours of training in microcounselling. The impact of this training on acquisition of counselling skills and their effect on client behaviour was investigated. It was concluded that peer counsellors were successful in modifying the verbal behaviour of clients in desired directions...

The diversity-sensitive developmental model of psychotherapy integrates developmental theory, the empathic relationship-story and strengths-goals-restory-action model of the interview session, and the microskills hierarchy to better serve diverse clients. The model’s procedures for interviewing diverse clients, assessing clients’ communication styl...

There is rapid growth in Greece's professional and research activity in counseling, despite the lack of a clear professional identity for the field. It is hoped this will be overcome through the newly started graduate programs. Opportunities, objectives, and strategies for counseling's advancement should be directed toward close and essential colla...

This article summarizes a presentation focusing on basics of neuroscience with special attention to implications for social justice. Participants’ questions and suggestions for action are presented.

The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (4th ed., text rev.; American Psychiatric Association, 2000) represents a medical model that can be reframed for more effective use in counseling. To achieve this goal, the authors describe how they can shift from client diagnosis to case formulation. In describing this shift, the authors of...

Reviews the book, Handbook for social justice in counseling psychology: Leadership, vision, and action by Rebecca L. Toporek, Lawrence H. Gerstein, Nadya A. Fouad, Gargi Roysircar, and Tania Israel (2005). This text promises a revolution in the role of counselors and therapists. Issues of social justice have long been a hallmark of the social work...

Social class, classism, and privilege and their relationship to counseling have been given insufficient attention. This article defines and explores White middle-class privilege; it proffers support for its integration in a multicultural competency, as well as its intersection with race and other dimensions of multiculturalism and privilege. Implic...

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Each and every act of communication between human beings can be considered as an adaptive process analogous to biological evolution. The act of communication, both verbal and non-verbal, represents our best attempt to adapt to the specific situation. This communication adaptation made in responye to environmental events affects that same environmen...

This article introduces a new integrated model of counselling supervision entitled the Microcounselling Supervision Model. This type of supervision is designed for supervi-sors and supervisees who favor eclecticism and work from multiple theoretical orientations. MSM successfully combines skills from various theories and supervision models by revie...

Counseling is an international phenomenon. This interview presents the lifework of Hans Hoxter and illustrates how the American counseling movement affects and is affected by multinational and multicultural conceptions.

Counseling psychology has a long history of interest and commitment to social justice and multicultural issues. This article discusses some of that history and, in addition, speaks to specifics of implementing a liberation psychology frame of reference into clinical practice along with the issues of implementation and challenges faced by those of a...

Counseling psychology has a long history of interest and commitment to social justice and multicultural issues. This article discusses some of that history and, in addition, speaks to specifics of implementing a liberation psychology frame of reference into clinical practice along with the issues of implementation and challenges faced by those of a...

Counselors of all types need an understanding of and an ability to work with issues described by the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, fourth edition (DSM-IV; American Psychiatric Association, 1994). The traditional approach to the DSM-IV tends to locate the problem in the client, whereas a developmental approach focuses on the...

Professional counselors in educational and mental health settings all must deal with so‐called psychopathology. At issue is how can they work with “disorder” from a positive, developmental perspective? Developmental counseling and therapy (DCT) offers an approach to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, fourth edition (American...

Focuses on the multiplicity of layers of posttraumatic stress to demonstrate the need to balance internalized cognition and emotion with equal concern for wider sociocultural and sociopolitical reality and for both individual and collective action. Much of counseling theory and practice gives insufficient attention to matters of social context. Ext...

The authors build upon Castonguay and Goldfried's analysis regarding issues and directions central to advancing psychotherapy integration. They elaborate on two issues addressed only minimally in Castonguay and Goldfried's article. The first involves moving beyond traditional psychotherapy territory to include cultural, self-in-relationship, and in...

These chapters represent [the editors'] conceptualization of a theory of MCT [multicultural counseling and therapy]. The text is divided into 4 major parts. Part I . . . consists of 3 chapters in which we propose and develop a theory of MCT. Parts II [and III] present the contributors' views on our proposed theory, both from a theoretical perspec...

Describes 2 models of counseling and psychotherapy that are based on a synthesis of developmental theory and multicultural counseling theory with a co-constructivist epistemology. Developmental counseling and therapy provides a culturally centered treatment framework for work with individual clients. Systemic cognitive-developmental therapy extends...

The aim of systemic, integrative ftrameworks is to empower therapists to draw across mariage andfamily therapy models to select the most appropriate treatment strategies for any family. The therapy model presented here provides an organizing set of dimensions and strategies for the continuous assessment offamily functioning throughout the therapeut...

Demonstrates further the holistic and integrative nature and potential of the metatheoretical perspective for counseling and therapy (CNT) by R. A. Blakeney and C. D. Blakeney (see record 1992-39667-001) using developmental CNT as a method of translation. The Blakeneys' thinking adds to the major paradigm shift (PS) occurring in the counseling fie...

Counseling theory tends to be White, Western and male in origin and orientation. Culture-specific counseling is proposed as an alternative to cross-cultural and multicultural approaches. In the culture-specific approach, we start with the culture and its peoples and search out natural helping styles. Rather than transforming Western theory to fit a...

Culture‐specific counseling has been proposed as a supplement to cross‐cultural and multicultural approaches. In the culture‐specific approach, we start with the culture and its peoples and search out natural helping styles. In contrast with the conventional approach of adapting existing counseling theory to “fit” a new culture, the culture‐specifi...

This ground-breaking book offers an accessible and practical presentation of a new model for both teaching and conducting therapy. It is the first book to translate developmental theory into therapy practice: Ivey shows how to use the cognitive-developmental psychological concepts promulgated by Erikson, Piaget, and others (including Jay Haley and...

Presents medical, psychological, family systems, and educational-developmental conceptual models for helping practice and asserts that mental health counselors can best communicate with others in the helping fields from a base of cooperative power. Five considerations for training and practice for a unified practice of counseling and development ar...

The Developmental therapy (DT) model suggests that therapeutic interventions should be adapted to the patient's mode of cognition. 20 short- and long-term inpatient depressives (18 women and 2 men) were examined, and it was found that their cognitive-developmental levels could be assessed in the initial phases of treatment with a high interrater ag...

Responds to the review by S. B. Baker et al (see record 1990-31934-001) of 3 models for systematic counselor/therapist training. Suggestions are made for integrating the models, emphasizing training as treatment, and recognizing the importance of multicultural considerations. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2012 APA, all rights reserved)

Discusses the gap between philosophy and practice in counseling and development, identifying issues that must be resolved to narrow the gap. Characteristics of counseling and development are summarized as being concerned with positive human change, focusing on both individuals and systems, and involving multicultural awareness. It is asserted that...

Presents concepts of developmental counseling and therapy (A. Ivey, 1986, 1990) as a systematic framework to integrate neo-Piagetian developmental theory into the interview. Four specific aspects of the developmental counseling and therapy model are outlined: (1) assessing cognitive developmental level; (2) expanding horizontal or vertical developm...

Asserts, in support of the position of W. J. Weikel and A. J. Palmo (see record 1989-30703-001), that mental health counseling (MHC) has reached professional maturity and will have an increasing impact on the delivery of mental health services. Three critical issues for the future are discussed: (1) the identity of MHC, (2) its relationship to oth...

Counseling is an international phenomenon. This interview presents the lifework of Hans Hoxter and illustrates how the American counseling movement affects and is affected by multinational and multicultural conceptions. 1989 American Counseling Association

Counseling training programs have failed to differentiate between and among behavioral, cognitive, and unconsciousness dimesnsions. This omission has resulted in confusion and competition in many counseling curricula in that valuable programs are competing for space rather than being integrated systematically. This article proposes a multilevel mod...

The facilitation of development may be considered the primary goal of counseling and therapy. Developmental theory, however, remains relatively divorced from direct clinical work. Developmental therapy is oriented toward identifying how to use basic developmental theory in clinical consultation. Developmental therapy differs from life span developm...

Communication skills are basic to effective management. However, communication training programs must not only show evidence that the skills have been learned, but also demonstrate that this learning can be converted into effective on the job behavior. A communication skills program, Face to Face, based on the microtraining model, is described. Thi...

Extensive attention has been given by ACES and AACD to the unique role of the counseling profession. It is suggested that the definition of the profession lies in the association name: American Association for Counseling and Development. Counselors must integrate developmental theory systematically into the practice of counseling. Several alternati...

Ethical practice of psychology requires cultural-contextual awareness of the individual and systemic relationships. Social, clinical, and counseling psychology can all benefit from a re-examination of practice and research as cultural phenomena. It is suggested that much of our present psychological practice is constructed from a position of “the d...

This article presents a study of the effects of tachistoscopic presentation of affective words on subjects' conceptualizations, intentions, and responses to a simulated client. The participants, 36 counseling students, were assigned randomly to one of the following treatments: subliminal presentation of negative emotional concepts; subliminal prese...

Lloyd provides an important caution as counselors move to the centrality of multicultural awareness in counseling curricula. The primacy of culture, however, is not to be denied as the first dimension in our thinking as professional helpers. Cultural intentionality is proposed as a metagoal of the helping process—the integration of cultural awarene...

This comprehensive text offers its readers a unique learning tool—a merger of counseling theories with the skills needed to practice them. Extensive typescripts illustrate the actual interview process and the specifics of each theory, and detailed exercises allow students to apply the concepts immediately in their counseling techniques. This new ed...

This study compared the therapeutic progress of three randomly assigned groups (n=14 in each group) of community mental health center clients: (a) clients who viewed a slide/sound presentation about all available therapists and chose their own therapist; (b) clients who viewed the presentation and were assigned to a therapist by the center''s clini...

Too often assessment is incomplete and lacking in a conceptual framework. This article presents one alternative for an integrated view of assessment that considers both person and environment issues, illustrates the model in practice use with microcounseling skills such as questions and focusing, and advocates an integrated assessment approach cons...

This paper presents the results of 15 years of detailed examination of the individual and group psychotherapeutic interview. Out of this study has evolved a systematic formulation for teaching skills of therapy in a 45-hour training program. Students in this program are able to engage in wide ranging therapeutic interventions such as psychodynamic...

This article discusses basic concepts of sociolinguistics and considers their relationship to the counseling process. Essentially, it suggests that interviewing be examined in the light of (1) language as a cultural phenomenon and (2) the interactions between individuals and society. When reconceptualized in this way, counseling can benefit from th...

Presents microtraining as a highly specific and clearly identified system of teaching interviewing skills. The philosophical underpinnings of this approach are discussed, and some sample interviewing analysis methods are presented. It is concluded that the microtraining paradigm provides an opportunity for interested counselors to delineate what oc...

Considers a person-environment approach as central to a metatheory of counseling and psychotherapy. Suggests counselors remain aware of the social and political frames of their work and the verbal and nonverbal communication between counselor and client. (JAC)

L'apprentissage axé sur la compétence et établie sur des objectifs d'étude clairement définis est devenu un élément important de la formation en service social. On a tracé et enseigné des objectifs précis propres au processus de consultation/communications dans la formation du personnel en développement social à des employés des Territoires du Nord...

Allen E. Ivey's visit to Coppermine, an Inuit village in the Canadian Arctic, is the basis for this assessment of the difficulties that arise when a traditional society is confronted and affected by the changes that inevitably accompany technological advancement and so-called Western contact. This article is written in narrative form that incorpora...

Microcounseling provides a systematic method for teaching beginning counselors, therapists, etc, and a framework for delimiting processes and outcomes in professional helping. This text provides the following types of information about microcounseling: definition, perspectives, attending behavior and skills, interpersonal influence skills, empathy,...

Evaluation of microcounseling training as an in-service training model with residence hall staff. Three measures used: Orientation Inventory, before and after videotapes made of staff members in the counseling role, and Microcounseling Skill Discrimination Index. Statistical significance found with pre- and posttaped interviews and with the MSDI. (...

Notes that the need to expand counseling services beyond the remedial one-to-one relationship is becoming widely recognized. The concept of counselor-as-teacher has gained popularity as a developmental approach to helping people achieve interpersonal competence. This article describes a systematic training program designed to help counselors transf...

Racism is defined as a White problem for White people. A reeducation program was designed to provide an experience that would confront White people with the discrepancies between the reality and the myths in the White system, White culture, and themselves. The 26-hr experience was conducted in 2 weekend workshops separated by a 2-wk interval. The 1...

Counseling has traditionally failed to consider the cultural context within which it was working. Strong movements are now forcing awareness of cultural constraints. A model is presented of the individual who has "cultural expertise," able to relate to self, others, and society. Four dimensions, each of which is measurable, are presented and discus...

A Tool for the Development of Effective Interpersonal Skills

Developed the Microcounseling Skill Discrimination Scale (MSDS) to measure ability to discriminate between effective and ineffective verbal and nonverbal helping messages. Interview segments representing counselor reflection of feeling and paraphrasing were rated in typescript form and in 2 videotaped forms (one containing effective and the other c...

Examined the language patterns of 10 trainees in a communication skills program. Factor analysis, supported by a pre-post distribution comparison as well as analysis of variance, suggested that effective communication may be defined in terms of appropriately referred emotional expressiveness. The usefulness of media therapy is noted, and implicatio...

Replies to D. S. Arbuckle (see record 1979-29513-001) stating that with proper conditions and role expectations, counselors can function as teachers, and teachers can function as counselors. The task of the counselor is to facilitate human development and actualization. Psychological education starts with an emphasis on the individual but is not a...

The conference examined the role of the applied psychologist. The recommendations of this conference are new and powerful and are likely to reverberate throughout the helping professions. The authors discuss major conference recommendations and their implications for professional counseling practice. (Author)

Describes the history and methods of microcounseling and media therapy, both of which are video methods of teaching single behavioral skills in counseling and communication to a wide variety of populations, from children to psychiatric patients to counselors. Research on the effectiveness of these techniques is discussed. Intentionality as a constr...

Assigned 24 male 2nd-yr medical students to 1 of 2 interviewing training groups. The 12 microcounseling Ss received training in the use of attending behavior, open-ended questions, minimal activity responses, paraphrases, reflections of feeling, and summarization through the use of the microcounseling paradigm. The 12 comparison Ss received equival...

Microcounseling techniques were used to conduct an experimental study. The objective was to train naive college students who were interested in counseling to assess clients' attitudes toward guidance tests. A correlation of .797 was obtained between clients' ratings of attitudes toward tests and the trainees' ratings of clients' attitudes toward te...