Financial professionals are advocating a personal counselling framework to deal with financial issues. Many popular magazines are discussing this new persective on financial planning and services offered to clients. This new spin on financial advising finds financial personnel going beyond money and including personal counselling content. Articles from both academic and popular journals support the basis for this new awareness. They point to the fact that financial health and psychological health are connected and interrelated. The problem with traditional financial counselling is that financial personnel are trained to deal with numbers and money, and are not trained to counsel personal issues. Therefore, considering the potential ramifications, it is imperative that financial and psychological professionals work effectively together. The goal of addressing the issue, found within this study, is to increase service delivery to clients, both from financial as well as psychological perspectives. Ultimately, this research aims to determine how to improve, and thus increase the level of referral and collaboration between these two fields. Thirty interviews were conducted with financial personnel currently working in Western Canada. The interview population consisted of Chartered Accountants, and Certified Financial Planners and Advisors. The Financial Personnel Interview was used to collect data and explore the perceptions of the existing processes of referral and collaboration between themselves and psychologists. The interview covered an array of topics including eight parts: Demographic Information, Recognizing and Defining Personal and Psychological Issues, Addressing Personal and Psychological Issues, Roles of Financial Personnel, Referral, Collaboration, Concluding Thoughts and the Client Problem Table. Extreme viewpoints emerged from the data. One is that these worlds are too different, personal counselling is not their responsiblity and there is no need for referral and collaboration. However, the majority of financial personnel believe there is a lack of understanding between the professions, the two worlds overlap and there is a need for referral and collaboration. In order to make referral and collaboration happen, it will have to start with baby steps; it will also take willingness, time and education to move from an unknown territory to a place where clients benefit from both professions. / xiii, 162 leaves ; 28 cm.

This study examined the effect a telephone health care information system has on emergency department patients. The research questions address the patient's acuity and the length of time between the onset of symptoms and seeking treatment.A convenience sample of 80 ambulatory emergency department patients treated over a four month period, in one emergency department of a Midwest hospital with a published telephone health care information system. The sample was divided into two groups according to the treatment. The treatment group had accessed the telephone health information system prior to emergency department visit and the control group of patients had not. The procedure for the protection of human subjects were followed.Data was collected by two instruments, a demographic questionnaire completed by the subjects, and a patient acuity scale completed by the treating emergency nurse. Acuity is scored on a 1 through 5 point scale. Subjects selected the best time interval representing the onset of symptoms and treatment. The Whitney-Mann U test was used to test differences in mean ranks. When comparing individuals who used Ask-A-Nurse, there was no significant difference between the two groups and acuity scores. There were no differences between the frequency of time interval ranges in the two groups, however a pattern indicated the subjects sought treatment sooner if the telephone health care information systems was assessed. The ability of the telephone health care information system to refer nonemergency patients to physician's offices or medical clinic and avoid overcrowded emergnecy department appears limited. Implications call for an increased method of screening and providing information to emergency patients who need health care advice. / School of Nursing

The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Third Edition, Revised (DSM-III-R) published by the American Psychiatric Association (APA) in 1987 is currently the primary tool used by counselors in clinical settings for diagnosing clients' psychological and behavioral problems. Beginning with the third edition of the manual (DSM-III; APA, 1968) a multiaxial process for diagnosis was introduced to encourage a biopsychosocial perspective of client's problems.This study was designed to investigate if alterations in diagnosis on Axis IV and V could further encourage a biopsychosocial perspective. It was designed to imitate the rapid diagnostic process that takes place in many clinical settings. In the present study, the criterion for a biopsychosocial perspective was the maintenance of neutral perceptions and unbiased hypothesis-testing strategies following diagnosis of a client.Twenty-four counseling psychology trainees participated in the study. The counselor trainees diagnosed a client after listening to approximately 20 minutes of an audio-tape of an initial assessment interview. The 12 counselor trainees in the control group diagnosed the client using the standard multiaxial format for diagnosis. The 12 counselor trainees in the experimental group diagnosed the client using an alternative format which encouraged a focus on positive aspects of the client and the client's environment.The counselor trainees completed the Impression Formation Questionnaire to assess their perceptions of the client. They then wrote 12 questions they would ask the client in the next counseling session. These questions constituted their hypothesis-testing strategies for their diagnoses on Axis I and Axis II.The counselor trainees in both groups maintained primarily neutral perceptions of the client as measured by the IFQ. The counselor trainees in both groups favored confirmatory hypothesis-testing strategies when assigned to groups based on their hypothesis-testing strategy score (p < .05).The results of this study indicated that the standard and alternative multiaxial formats for diagnosis may encourage neutral perceptions of a client when counselors must diagnose the client based on very little information. Neither format for diagnosis was successful, however, in discouraging a biased, confirmatory search for information. / Department of Counseling Psychology and Guidance Services

Thesis (Ed.D.)--Duquesne University, 2005. / Title from document title page. Abstract included in electronic submission form. Includes bibliographical references (p. 69-73) and index.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 2008. / Title from title screen (site viewed Oct. 31, 2008). PDF text: viii, 249 p. ; 3 Mb. UMI publication number: AAT 3310708. Includes bibliographical references. Also available in microfilm and microfiche formats.

Thesis (D. Min.)--Covenant Theological Seminary, 1997. / Abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 204-210).

Thesis (M.S.)--University of Michigan, 1989.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Kent State University, 2008. / Title from PDF t.p. (viewed May 21, 2009). Advisor: Jason McGlothlin. Keywords: integrated dual disorder treatment, co-occurring disorders. Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-280).

Thesis (M.S.)--University of Michigan, 1989.

<p> There are approximately 1.2 million people in the United Stated living with HIV/AIDS. At the end of 2012, 75.3% of persons living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) were males, with the majority of those being men who have sex with men. The rate of new HIV diagnoses among males is more than four times greater than the rate among females. Of new HIV diagnoses in 2013, approximately 67% were among Black/African American and Hispanic/Latino individuals. Though the total number of Black males living with HIV is notably higher, a greater proportion of Latino men are infected through sexual activity with other men. Unprotected anal intercourse (UAI) is the riskiest sexual activity for contracting HIV. The present study utilized hierarchical generalized linear modeling, with secondary data, to assess the multi-level effects of Latino cultural sexual beliefs regarding condom use across sexual encounters. Results suggest that Latino male sexual beliefs associated with sexual acquiescence moderated the influence of arousal on the likelihood of unprotected insertive anal intercourse and moderated the influence of relationship closeness on the likelihood of unprotected receptive anal intercourse (URAI). The study findings suggest that beliefs associated with sexual acquiescence also had a direct effect on the likelihood of URAI. The application of the study findings for counseling professionals include: 1) the proposed creation of an HIV-prevention counseling intervention that prioritizes the holistic sexuality of clients and 2) judiciously incorporating sexuality coursework in the formal training of counselors.</p>