Introduces Organizational Citizenship Behaviour (OCB) as a factor that contributes to the performance ratings of counselors. Describes models of OCB and circumstances that encourage its use. Suggests a method for integrating OCB sensitization training into counselor education programs as a means to prepare counseling interns, including information…

Examines the assertion that eye-movement assessments can be reliably used to identify primary sense systems in a study of 26 female college students who participated in two interviews. Results showed subjects did not return to the same strategy in response to the same question as evidenced by eye movements. (JAC)

Describes the experiences of university students who completed the Intelligent Careers Card Sort (ICCS), a career exploration exercise that is based on the Intelligent Career framework. This Intelligent Career model is discussed in the context of the subjective career and the changing economy, and research on card sorts is briefly reviewed.…

Chinese (n=152) and White (n=160) college students reviewed a counseling interview transcript and provided perceptions on counselor credibility, counselor behaviors, and utilization intent. Found whereas the proximal-distal model was supported by results obtained by Chinese sample, a variant of this model best described results for White sample.…

Promotes culture-specific counseling approach, which starts with the culture and its people and searches out natural helping styles. Uses case model drawn from African-Igbo culture and applies anthropological constructs that seek to discover more culturally sensitive approach to counseling theory, to training in counseling skills and knowledge,…

Undergraduates (n=108) were assigned to six groups: computerized Career Decision-Making (CDM), computerized Self-Directed Search (SDS), CHOICES, CDM and SDS, wait-listed, or control. Teaching decision-making strategies through CDM improved short- and long-term vocational identity; the informational approach (CHOICES) had long-term impact. Despite…

Used a solution-oriented therapeutic group process in which substance abuse clients' projections into the future help provide a more manageable present. Reunion groups are created by group members and facilitators, who act as if clients have been successful in their lives for a specified time period and that participants are returning for a…

Examines whether problem-solving appraisal plays a role in recovery from depression in a university population (N=66). Results were consistent with the hypothesis that self-appraised effective problem solvers would be more likely to recover from a depressive episode than self-appraised ineffective problem solvers. (Contains 29 references.)…

The importance of high levels of involvement in counseling has been related to theories of interpersonal influence. To examine differing effects of counselor credibility as a function of how personally involved counselors are, the Elaboration Likelihood Model (ELM) of attitude change was applied to counseling pretreatment. Students (N=256) were…

Investigated the relation between the predominant theoretical orientations of counselors (N=12) and intake interview judgments for 1,443 college students. Findings indicated that counselors who were humanistically oriented judged that their clients presented more severe educational problems and were more anxious than did counselors who were…

Measured the effectiveness of rational self-counseling in relation to college students' loci of control as an approach to the primary prevention of mental health problems. Administered pre- and posttest of Rotter's I-E scale to treatment and control groups. Findings suggest college students can learn to be more internally oriented. (Author/RC)

Which foundational theorists, concepts, and published literature anchor the emerging narrative perspective in the social sciences, particularly psychology? A panel of 19 scholars who actively publish from this viewpoint and drawn mostly from psychology and sociology (N=10 and 5, respectively) was surveyed to offer expert judgment about this…

A social cognitive model was applied to the prediction of interest in research among counseling psychology doctoral students (N=184). Five variables emerged as significant predictors. Several factors indirectly affected interest in research through effects on research self-efficacy and research outcome expectations. Relationships among the…

Discusses issues in conceptualizing and measuring counselors' theoretical orientations to practice. Evaluates 15 instruments previously proposed as measures of counselors' and therapists' theoretical orientations, and examines psychometric properties and the utility of each instrument. Few instruments show evidence of reliability and even fewer…

Examined the relationship between preference for major counseling orientations and perception of counselor behavior in college students (N=77) naive about the process of counseling and psychotherapy. Results suggested that subjects' perceptions of the theoretically derived counseling approaches were not influenced by their personal preference for…