This article explores the meaning and function of client resistance in the counseling setting from various theoretical orientations. A relational model of resistance is offered that redefines traditional formulations of the concept and has implications for clinical treatment. A clinical vignette illustrates that the counselor's contribution to the emergence of client resistance is a relevant, although often ignored, factor in overcoming therapeutic impasse. Eric W. Cowan is a licensed clinical psychologist and assistant professor of psychology in the Counseling Psychology Program at

Supervisors face the daunting challenge of both training and developing counselors. Solution‐focused supervision can help supervisees develop an inner vision of themselves as competent and developing counselors.

This article suggests a device that counselors may use as a reference for bridging the gap between counseling theory and technique. Cognitive development theory provides the basis for understanding a single transaction between counselor and client. The acronyms FACTS and CRACKS suggest the structural dynamics taking place within the client's cognitive field as the counselor performs in two different stages of the counseling process.

Neither science nor culture could exist without a participant-observer and a conceiving human mind. Being-in-the-world, or "Dasein," as Heidegger termed it, is fundamental to any conceptual understanding we have of how things work in the universe. There is no view from nowhere. Psychology is the primordial ground in which the tree of knowledge has its roots.

No abstract