Summarizes issues relevant to empirical investigations of client and counselor preferences. Explores the effects of similarity and difference on relationship development and focuses on the attraction and repulsion hypotheses' applicability to multicultural counseling research and theory. It is hoped that differences between counseling and social…

Responds to previous article by Pedersen on counseling international students, noting that the topics discussed are ones that recur and that the commentaries offered are enlightening. Suggests several other topics that might have been addressed had Pedersen had more space. Concludes that foreign student advisers and others who counsel…

Responds to previous article by Pedersen on counseling international students. Focuses comments on guidelines for training programs in counseling psychology as courses and seminars are developed to meet the needs of international students. Concludes that it is necessary to more effectively serve international students and to address training needs…

Reviews studies of counseling relationship, using Gelso and Carter's multidimensional model to summarize empirical support for "real,""unreal," and "working alliance" elements of relationship. Discussion of implications of potential model shift in thinking of counseling relationship outlines how adoption of social…

Responds to earlier article by Sexton and Whiston (1994) on counseling relationship. Points out problems with the social constructivist position discussed by Sexton and Whiston, and advocates for generic model of psychotherapy which posits multidimensional conceptualization of counseling relationship that encompasses both "real"…

Responds to earlier article by Sexton and Whiston (1994) on counseling relationship. Contends that Sexton and Whiston defined counseling relationship too broadly. Disagrees with Sexton and Whiston's inclusion of interpersonal interaction into domain of counseling relationship and with their characterization of real relationship as being composed…

Responds to earlier article by Sexton and Whiston (1994) on counseling relationship. Commends Sexton and Whiston's decision to use Gelso and Carter's multidimensional model to guide research review. Asserts, however, that weaknesses exist in operations used to define real, unreal, and working alliance components. Questions both definitions of…

Larson's Social Cognitive Model of Counselor Training is located among extant training and supervision models. Three general observations about SCMCT are made, and five specific elements relating to supervisor functions are discussed: (1) modeling; (2) social persuasion; (3) supervisor feedback; (4) supervisor self-efficacy; (5) declarative and…

Addresses the counseling needs of older persons and the response of the counseling psychology field. Dicusses gerontological counseling in relation to life transitions; counseling theory; counseling programs; group, individual and family counseling; counseling techniques; senile dementia; and outcome research. (JAC)

Crites makes a multi-attribute comparison of five approaches to career counseling (trait and factor, client-centered, psychodynamic, developmental, and behavioral). Attributes discussed are diagnosis, process outcomes, interview techniques, test interpretation, and use of occupational information. Responses by L. Vetter, L. W. Harmon, L. Jacobs,…

Examines seven interfaces of social and counseling psychology--outlined by Forsyth and Leary--from the perspective of social cognitive theory. Discusses social cognitive theory as a unifying framework for bridging counseling and social psychology and other subdisciplines that share an interest in issues of health promotion and optimal adjustment.…

Focuses on attachment theory's relationship to counseling process and supervision so as to heighten appreciation of attachment theory's complexity. Illustrates attachment constructs in action and discusses counseling process, concentrating on the ways attachment theory can contribute to understanding the client-counselor relationship and change…

Review contain a wide variety of perspectives on how sex role stereotyping limits the psychological growth and development of women, and on how the apparent limitations may be redressed by different kinds of intervention strategies. (Author)

Supports the theory that the counseling psychologist must look both inward and outward for identity in terms of uniqueness (as compared with similar professional groups), and uniqueness as an autonomous group. Describes the developmental orchestrator role as most fruitful when it acts as a catalyst. (JAC

Discusses ways that psychodynamic, including psychoanalytic, ideas can be applied to the tasks of the counseling psychologist. The counseling psychologist's developmental counseling orientation should be broadened to include all of the stages of the life cycle, not just the adolescent period. (Author)