Negro counselor educator in south presents observations on nature of racism. Argues for improved total school environment. Differing point of view follows in brief reaction by Don W. Locke, Northeast Louisiana State College, Monroe. Papers presented at Southern Association for Counselor Education and Supervision, Lexington, Kentucky, 1968. (CJ)

Discusses the role confusion early intervention counselors in South Africa are likely to face, urging a distinction between disciplinary counseling and developmental counseling. Addresses particularly the black counselor's role in South Africa's caregiving system, highlighting the importance of issues of cultural diversity and sensitivity. (EV)

This study was designed to explore the attitude of black manpower trainees towards counselors who differed in race and to determine the effects of counselor race on goal persisting behaviors as perceived by manpower trainees. Subjects were 191 unemployed black males (N=75) and females (N=116) who were enrolled in three programs in Detroit,…

Empathy has been defined as the single most important dimension in establishing a counseling relationship. This paper describes a study that compares counselor trainees' and a general population of African American males' empathy ratings of racially mixed videotaped counseling sessions. The report addresses the following questions: "Do…

Archival data were used to explore intake judgments made by 45 counselors about 344 African American and white clients seen at a counseling center during a 2-year period. Counselor gender was significantly associated with ratings of client severity of current condition. Neither ethnicity nor counselor experience was predictive of intake judgments.…

Ten studies concerned with developing culturally sensitive programs for mental health treatment of American minority groups are presented. Chapters 1-5 discuss variables to be considered when creating such programs. Work in cross-cultural settings has raised questions about the validity of some of the newly developed psychiatric diagnostic…