School counselors today work with clients from minority races, minority ethnic groups, homosexuals, females, at-risk students and the handicapped. Counselors need to be willing to learn more about these minorities and how to better meet their needs. Many colleges offering counseling programs include multicultural education. Counselors must be…

Being black and disabled are characteristics which are frequently rejected by the larger society. When counselors and black disabled clients come together, they usually bring different life experiences because of physical abilities and race. There may be more similarities if both the client and counselor are disabled or both are of the same race.…

Counselor development from the beginning counselor to the master counselor has been researched as to the most beneficial model for describing the progression of the trainee. One developmental model, the Integrated Developmental Model, describes three stages plus an integrated fourth stage that a counseling trainee moves through from a beginning…

The feelings of therapist and patient toward each other are important factors in the therapeutic relationship. This study investigated how beginning therapists perceive and are perceived by clients. After initial counseling sessions with college student clients (N=133), six psychotherapy practicum trainees at a university counseling center…

While some new journals for psychotherapists are beginning to address practical decisions important for attracting clients and succeeding in the business of psychotherapy, the literature which might provide empirical evidence upon which to base such decisions still lags. A study was undertaken to provide practitioners with further information and…

Despite the growing number of court-referred drug clients, there has been little systematic investigation into how these clients compare to non court-referred drug clients. This study investigates counselors' perceptions of their clients. It was hypothesized that court-referred clients would generally be perceived less favorably than non…

School psychologists are often subject to severe stress when they work with troubled families and children. Burnout from physical, mental, or emotional exhaustion as a result of the chronic stress is not uncommon in the profession. One problem of being attentive to the needs of others is that the caregiver's needs often get overlooked or…

Studied the attitudes of 37 Israeli secondary-school counselors towards immigrant students and citizenship education. Most believed that implementation of citizenship education is a schoolwide enterprise, and most supported an assimilationist perspective for immigrant students. Implications of a belief in a culturally plural perspective, held by…

Despite the increasing incidence of infidelity, little empirical evidence is available to guide the efforts of marriage and family therapists in this area. This study examines how gender, participant training, and follow-up mitigating information relate to perceptions of individuals in couple relationships presenting for therapy with a history of…

The September 1988 newsletter of Commission VII (Counseling and Psychological Services) of the American College Personnel Association contained a survey addressing the issues of sexual intimacy in the training and practice of counselors, psychologists and educators. Approximately 800 surveys were mailed to the commission members. Participation in…

A study was conducted to determine how the business community in a large mid-southern city perceived disabled persons and the types of information potential employers of handicapped individuals desired concerning specific handicapping conditions. The study also explored differences in perceptions of employers and vocational rehabilitation…

The structure and salience of disability perceptions among rehabilitation counseling students were investigated with a longitudinal design. A questionnaire was developed in which students (N=14) were asked to judge the similarity of all pairs of 12 disabilities and to rate each of the disabilities on 14 attribute scales. Students were assessed at…

Some theoreticians believe that diagnostic and prognostic impressions are based in part on clinicians' personal values. A study was conducted to assess whether clinical judgment is affected by patient religiosity, therapist religiosity, or an interaction between patient and therapist religiosity. Psychotherapists' (N=15) judgments concerning…

A survey attempted to gather baseline data from 69 rehabilitation counselors in the state of Mississippi on rehabilitation concerns with clients suffering from traumatic brain injury (TBI). Among survey results were: counselors ranked the psychological domain as the most problematical with the educational domain ranked as least problematical;…

Research on social influence in counseling has examined how clients perceive counselors and how counselors influence clients. There has been little attention to counselors' perception of clients or the ways clients influence counselors. Research in this area could identify client characteristics which contribute to the counseling process and could…