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In this article, I review Stata for the Behavioral Sciences by Michael N. Mitchell (2015 [Stata Press]).

Mental health care professionals assist our clients in developing competency in coping with a wide range of personal problems. Psychoanalysts, therapists, and counselors feel free to explore occupational, family, sexual, interpersonal, and existential issues with their clients. Yet specifically spiritual and religious issues, also integral aspects of human experience, are frequently viewed with apprehension. Although it is becoming more and more apparent that there is a need for addressing spiritual/religious issues in therapy, there continues a traditional resistance by many practitioners on a variety of personal and professional grounds. When spiritual and religious issues surface, therapists are often inadvertently subject to countertransference reactions. This article examines the complexity of factors that contribute to resistance and countertransference reactions to these issues by mental health professionals today.

Pacific Northwest Laboratory (PNL) provided technical assistance to the Office of Operational Safety (OOS) in developing their Assurance Program for Remedial Action (APRA). The APRA Bibliography Management System (BMS), a microcomputer-operated system designed to file, locate and retrieve project-specific bibliographic data, was developed to manage the documentation associated with APRA. The BMS uses APRABASE, a PNL-developed computer program written in dBASE II language, which is designed to operate using the commercially available dBASE II database software. This document describes the APRABASE computer program, its associated subprograms, and the dBASE II APRA file. A User's Manual is also provided in the document. Although the BMS was designed to manage APRA-associated documents, it could be easily adapted for use in handling bibliographic data associated with any project.