This comment are consist of three parts with the future of community consultation.

The first, ethical problems between internet users and copyright holder of software or data-base are discussed.

The next, some problems of professional license for clinical psychologist to field of welfare-medical supporting are discussed.

The last, prognosis of anti-social behavior from a few internet user with psychopathics are presented.

This paper was aimed to discuss a few points that may prove useful for foreign student counseling at a foreign student dormitory, from a view point of community psychology. Taking advantage of the introduction of tutor system (8 student tutors and 3 on-sight staff members (i.e. domitory employees) live in the dormitory to give support to foreign students) two years ago, the authors/counselors have changed the quality of counseling from ‘a passive approach’ in which only counselors give consultation to foreign students to ‘an active one’ in which counselors consult them with utilizing other human resources such as student tutors, staff members, and security guards, etc.

To put it concretely, the following steps have been taken:(1) introducing various programs (interviews, groupwork,lectures, and case study, etc) which encourage co-operation between student tutors and counselors, (2) carrying out consultation with the management of the foreign student domitory, (3) adopting a preventive approach for the psychological well-being of foreign students such as group interviews and group relaxation exercises utilizing body movement and expressions.

In conclusion, the authors claim following: (1) to make a support network for foreign students accessiblly, through more frequent and smoother communication among the parties (i.e. counselors, student tutors, staff members, etc), (2) to establish a model for foreign student counseling based on community psychology.

The purpose of this paper is to introduce the day care activities held only once a week at K Public Health Centre in Tokyo, and to examine the functions of those activities.

Day care at a public health centre functions as rehabilitation for mentally disordered participants.Their functions can be roughly divided into 4 groups as follow:

1. Making the basis of one’s life.

2. Enriching one’s life.

3. Promoting growth.

4. Bridge between a hospital and community.

Among those groups, ‘4. bridge between a hospital and community’ stands out as a characteristic advantage of day care at a public health centre.In order to fulfil those functions, some ideas in a day care activities are introduced.

The incidence of domestic violence (DV) is on the increase both in Japan as well as in the U.S.A. Moreover, whilst violence by the husband towards the wife is escalating both in type and frequency, the problem is little known or discussed.

In the first part of this paper, I discussed four current myths : ①that the frequency of DV is low, ② that the social and economic status of the batterer is low, ③ that the battered wife is also problematic as well as her husband, ④ that the battered wife does not, in fact, want to leave her husband. The validity of these myths was supported neither by the questionnaire survey nor by the complaints brought to the women’s counseling center by battered wives themselves.

In the second part of this paper, I presented the case of a housewife who had been battered by her husband and who had herself battered her 3-year son. I conducted individual feminist therapy over a 2-year period. Three important viewpoints underpinned this therapy. The first point was the need to bring to her attention that she was a victim of a patriarchal society which allowed strong people (father, husband, superior) to batter weak people (women, children, disabled). The second point was to seek to empower her continuously to develop confidence, self-esteem and acceptance of herself. The third point was that I was able to help create a large social network of 7 agencies and over 20 people in order for her to develop an independent life.

In the concluding part of this paper, I commend the shelter movement against DV. There are currently only 7 shelters in Japan compared to less than 1200 shelters in the U.S.A. We need more shelters to help women and children escape from DV and to enable them to rebuild their life.

This study was conducted for pursuing the following two objectives ; The first one is to investigate individuals’ mentoring behavior in Japanese work organizations. The second one is to evaluate an intervention program aimed at increasing mentoring behavior in work organizations.

A total of 100 white collar workers responded to the questionnaire which was designed for measuring mentoring behavior. The results indicate that mentoring behavior is commonly performed by persons working in Japanese work communities, and that mentoring behavior has positive relations with the mentor’s length of service and status in the company. The intervention was conducted for total 33 female clerical workers through a series of mentoring seminar. They generally showed positive reactions toward the intervention program.

Finally, we pointed out the necessity of the additional reseach for examining antecedent and consequential factors of mentoring behavior. We also need to develop more effective intervention program based on the evaluation of the present program.

The purpose of this study is to investigate the current function of “Yogo” teachers, compair “Yogo” with “Seito-Shido” and discuss school counselor’s participation in school organization. Questionnaires were administered to 318 “Yogo” teachers and 238 “Seito-Shido” teachers. As the results of principal component analysis, we obtained a “Yogo” teacher image and her room “Hoken-Shitu” image. The fomer is “Yogo” teacher who has earnestness over her work, a network outside her school, not only discipline but also playfulness, and receptivitiy to gaze at pupil’s heart individually. The latter is “Hoken-Shitu” where gives a good deal of various information and relaxation to pupils and teachers. As the results of the investigation about school counselor’s activities, both “Yogo” teachers and “Seito-Shido” teachers answered in the affirmative to most school counselor’s activities, but in the negative to school counselor’s activities as a prevention against the problem in school. And both of them were unwilling to receive a school counselor as a outsider into their school. In the future, without a good cooperation with “Yogo” teachers and “Seito-Shido” teachers, the school counselor won’t participate into school organization completely. Because the “Yogo” teacher and “Seito-Shido” teacher are the two greatest counselors in school organization at present.

Self-Help Groups are organized voluntarily and intentionally by people who suffer from common problems, to solve these problems or to acquire power to live with these problems. These groups are independent from profesionals and managed independently. And they develop regular and lasting activity.

Self-Help Groups are system which have functions of lasting community. People who participate in the system change their own system.

This paper descrives,

(1)Definition of Self-Help Groups. (2)Ideological background of Self-Help Groups. (3)Conditions to be organized for Self-Help Groups. (4)Specific characteristics of help by Self-Help Groups. (5)Functions and roles of Self-Help Groups. (7)Possibility and limitations of Self-help Groups. (6)Future and left problems of Self-Help Groups.

Subjective Well-Being (SWB) is the subjective and psychological view of “Quality of Life” evaluation. In this article, the author conducted an extensive review of literature related to SWB. As the result, following points were uncovered: SWB concept is composed of two components: affect, including positive and negative affect, and life satisfaction as a cognitive component. This means that, when we measure SWB on research, we must include both side of affect, positive and negative, because of their independency; SWB has strong correlation with other individual variables including demographic variables, social relations, job, health, personality, etc. Nevertheless, it is difficult to specify their causal relations; SWB study is sometimes criticized as too much theory oriented. There are two theories, Bottom-up and Top-down; Although many research literatures on SWB have published mainly in western countries since 1970, only a few literatures can be found, except gerontology, in Japan. It is suggested that more detailed theoretical and empirical studied on SWB should be done for improving our “Quality of Life”.