Male and female subjects were exposed to stereotypic representations of either a traditional professional or humanistic model therapy office. Subjects consistently perceived a female therapist in the traditional-professional office as significantly more credible than a female therapist in the humanistic office. (Author)

Observed Shostrom's (1966) psychotherapy demonstration films, rating the interpersonal behavior of Gloria or the therapist on a checklist inventory measure. Found significant differences in the interpersonal behaviors of the three therapists with Gloria, and of Gloria with them. Analyses of transactional patterns showed departures of Gloria's…

Hypothesizes that beliefs to learning will be considered by the subject to be more easily influenced than those which are intrinsic. Table and bibliography. (RW)

Students requesting personal counseling at a counseling center and a university mental health service were administered the SCL-90, a self-report symptom rating scale. Results indicate no significant difference between users of the counseling center and of the mental health service when compared on distress associated with presenting symptoms.…

Selected cases from a student health psychiatric service demonstrate the importance of family involvement in the therapeutic treatment program of each individual student irrespective of age or sex. Separation from family, adjustment to the college environment, and problems within the family all relate to the student's emotional well-being. (JN)

The traditional mental health system presents tremendous obstacles to deaf clients. More research on the early therapy process between a hearing and/or nonsigning therapist and the deaf client can greatly increase the probability of a successful working alliance. (CJ)

Interviewed 14 psychotherapy clients about their recollections of therapy session. Major category derived from grounded theory analysis of interviews was client's deference to therapist (concern about therapist's approach, fear of criticizing therapist, understanding therapist's frame of reference, meeting perceived expectations of therapist,…

Examines whether fear of therapy and psychological distress were predictive of help-seeking. A nonclinical student sample (n=263) completed measures of their treatment fears, expectations, anxiety, psychological distress and help-seeking likelihood. Concerns about image, stigma, coercion, and psychological distress were all related to help-seeking…

We investigated the extent to which contemporary dating practices are characterized by traditional sexual scripts, such as the double standard, and emerging scripts of female sexual desire and male sexual integrity. One hundred sixty-two upper-division college students responded to measures about dating under two instructional conditions, one…

This study compared the delivery of psychological services at a university counseling center after an interval of almost 40 years in a partial replication of an earlier study at the same center. The results indicate that the changes that have occurred in service delivery reflect more the transitions in the culture of the university than trends in…

A two-group randomized multivariate analysis of covariance (MANCOVA) was used to investigate the effects of cognitive-behavioral hypnosis in reducing test anxiety and improving academic performance in comparison to a Hawthorne control group. Subjects were enrolled in a rigorous introductory psychology course which covered an entire text in one…

A behavioral psychotherapy program for treating depression has been developed based on a self-control or self-management model that postulates that depressed persons selectively attend to negative events and immediate consequences of events; set stringent self-evaluative standards; make negative, inaccurate attributions of responsibility for…

A program of behavioral procedures for the self-management of social-effectiveness skills was evaluated within the context of a university course on principles of behavior self-modification. Sixteen students received training and direction in conducting seven-week self-modification projects focusing either on improving skills of interpersonal…

College students with difficulty falling asleep were treated with either progressive relaxation, systematic desensitization, or a thought control procedure. All three treatment groups showed significant lower latency to sleep onset times than a waiting-list control group at the end of the three-week treatment period. A three-week followup revealed…