The Indian students clearly rated the simulated interviews more positively when the counselors enacted trustworthy roles. The ethnicity of the counselor may not be important provided that the non-Indian counselor is trained to use culturally appropriate communicative and trustworthy behaviors. (Author)

A counseling analogue study was designed to evaluate the effects of counselor ethnicity and counselor trustworthiness on American Indian student ratings of perceived counselor "trustworthiness." Forty-four American Indian high school students (22 males and 22 females) from a public high school on a reservation in Nebraska viewed a 2-segment…