Monte Bobele

• PhD
• Professor Emeritus at Our Lady of the Lake University

It has long been taken for granted that the “gold standard” of psychotherapeutic treatment involves regularly scheduled sessions of talk therapy with a licensed or registered psychotherapist (Hoyt MF, Young J, Rycroft P, Aust N Z J Fam Ther 41:218–230, 2020). The assumption that this is what treatment-as-usual looks like has shaped how psychotherap...

The effectiveness of both mental health education and clinical practices is often limited by an overemphasis on US perspectives and approaches. Based on a lens and practice of reflexivity within international community psychology, this article describes a theater-based practice that is both an educational tool for training mental health providers a...

In this article, we describe recent work inspired by our interest in adapting and modifying the Eurocentric psychotherapy practices that are frequently imported into México. We have challenged assumptions about the delivery of psychological services: appointments are the optimal way to provide access, a private, cloistered office is necessary, and...

Introduction to special section of Journal of Systemic Therapies that addresses worries and concerns about single-session therpay.

Creative Therapy in Challenging Situations introduces readers to the innovative approaches that therapists sometimes take when standardized, paint-by-numbers routines don't work. Each chapter presents the story of one or more difficult psychotherapy situations followed by the therapists' descriptions of what they did and why, as well as the outcome...

Positive psychologists have contributed to our understandings of how positive emotions and flexible cognition enhance resiliency. However, positive psychologists’ research has been slow to address the relational resources and interactions that help nonheterosexual families overcome adversity. Addressing overlooked lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgende...

This article describes walk-in single session counselling, a form of service delivery that enables clients to receive one session of counselling without the usual hurdles of intake and wait times. We distinguish between walk-in counselling and single session therapy by appointment. We describe a mindset for therapists that supports walk-in work. We...

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As the number of individuals and families impacted by AIDS continue to multiply, family therapists will increasingly be asked to become engaged in the challenge of caring for those affected. To date, little has been written in family therpy journals regarding the response of family therapists to this crisis. This paper represents an initial attempt...

Therapists who encounter life-threatening behavior in their clinical practice are at risk in providing interventions which do not take into account the systemic effects of their interventions. Specifically, therapists are likely to engage in “more of the same” behavior with clients who present with suicidal or homicidal threats. This paper presents...

Clinicians are often concerned when clients decide to terminate therapy without consulting with them. Earlier understandings have included resistance to treatment, lack of motivation, and cultural and economic factors. Often the assumption is that the treatment failed. This study used clients' perspectives to understand self-termination by explorin...

Intercultural couples may present many dilemmas for therapists. It is suggested that ideas from postmodern narrative therapy such as adopting a collaborative, curious stance, generating alternative understandings, encouraging a both/and stance, and searching for liberating traditions within each culture may be helpful with therapists working with i...

This article provides a comprehensive review of the literature regarding nonmedical approaches to the understanding and treatment of intractable hiccups. The author provides a rationale for an interactional view and presents a case in which post-surgical hiccups were successfully treated, using principles developed by the Mental Research Institute....

This paper presents a preliminary report of the results of a project investigating discourse used in research, treatment and theory in the area of family violence. An overview of the understandings of family professionals in the field is set forth. In addition, the results of the analysis of family violence discourse and the direction of future res...

Describes the treatment of a couple who presented for therapy complaining of difficulties arising from an affair that the husband was having. The couple had been unable to resolve the difficulty partly because they believed that the trio had been close in previous lifetimes and that their current situation was spiritually ordained. The authors pres...

The loss of a job by the professional male is becoming an increasingly common occurrence in modern America. A number of researchers have found that unemployment has a detrimental effect on the unemployed male professional's sex life. However, there are no specific references to this phenomena in the sex therapy research. This paper formulates an in...

Describes referrals for family therapy by school counselors. Discusses the referral process, nature of family therapy, pitfalls in the referral process, and guidelines for successful referrals. Concludes counselors can avoid many pitfalls by an appreciation of the interactional nature of the referral process. (ABL)

A list of 15 items on nonmedical management of intractible hiccups is provided.

Our reaction to J. R. Taplin's (see record 1981-26926-001) article "Implications of General Systems Theory For Assessment and Intervention" was mixed; a little good news... a little bad news. It is becoming increasingly obvious that the way clinicians think and act with respect to the problems that clients bring to their offices must incorporate t...

The relationship was studied between the set of constructs specified by Holland's 1973 theory (viz, Realistic, Intellectual, Artistic, Social, Enterprising, and Conventional) measured by an Adjective List (AL) derived from Holland's theory and the same set of constructs as measured by the Vocational Preference Inventory (VPI). The correspondence of...

Group and individual administrations of the Revised Visual Retention Test to 84 primary-grade children, matched on chronological age and IQ, were demonstrated to be comparable. Form C of the test was used for memory and copy administrations, together with a multiple-choice version. No significant difference was obtained between treatments on memory...

The constructs in Holland's theory (viz., Realistic, Investigative, Artistic, Social, Enterprising, and Conventional) were compared for male and female college students using a procedure developed by Kaiser et al. (1969). This procedure was employed with constructs measured by the Vocational Preference Inventory (VPI), and with constructs measured...

A test of the personality constructs hypothesized by Holland was performed using a list of adjectives believed to be descriptive of the respective types. Subjects were 174 undergraduate psychology students who were directed to indicate whether or not each of 78 adjectives was self-descriptive. Scores for Holland's six types were obtained based on t...