The importance of the counselor's or therapist's characteristics of empathy, warmth, and genuineness in client improvement has been established in a number of studies. This manual was prepared as a means of fostering these qualities. It was prepared by rating segments of interviews taped in psychotherapy sessions and giving examples of the…

Coordination of counselor education and supervision is one of the major issues demanding immediate attention. Various background aspects are discussed: (1) the need for counseling supervision, (2) the function of counseling supervision, (3) the goals of supervision, (4) the status of supervision, and (5) the purposes of this study. Included in…

Most counselor trainees do not know how to help clients elaborate their own unique meanings in life. To provide experiences to overcome this, the author has attempted to do the following in the practicum: (1) provide a simulated client experience for the trainee by having each individual in the group react to an emotional simulation sequence and…

This document presents the argument that it is time for the school counselor to accept the dual role of counselor-researcher. No longer does the practitioner-researcher have to rely on the difficult and time-consuming comparative group research design. Rather, he has available to him an intensive design or empirical case study approach to…

The affective training component of the counselor education program at the University of Houston is described in this report. The goals of the affective training program are to enable the student to improve his self-awareness through self-exploration and to improve the effectiveness of his professional and interpersonal behavior. Implicit in the…

This study determined the effectiveness of the use of radio as a means of providing immediate feedback on student counselors in a practicum setting. Using a non-equivalent group experimental design, 10 experimental subjects were compared to 10 control subjects with respect to counselor effectiveness. The experimental subjects were given immediate…

This study reexamines the relationship between the Sixteen-Personality Factor (16-PF) Questionnaire and counselor performance ratings. Results of this study and the reanalysis of previous studies indicate that it would not be advisable at this time for counselor educators to identify or predict effective counselors on the basis of the 16-PF.…

Neighborhood Youth Corps participants (N=250) experienced group counseling over a 10-week period. Approximately half of the groups were conducted by five counselors who were supervised by a practicum instructor, and the remainder of the groups were led by unsupervised counselors. The participants in the supervised counseling groups were more…

Focuses on the immediate effects of group training and participation for inservice counselors and on the effects after one year. Subjects were 15 inservice counselors. The POI was used to assess personal growth. Results indicate that participating counselors maintained their positive POI gains one year later. (Author/HMV)

This study was conducted to consider the relationship between dogmatism and facilitative communication in counselor trainees. Level of facilitative communication was measured by the Gross Rating of Facilitative Interpersonal Functioning scale. Degree of dogmatism was determined by the opinion scale. Found significant negative correlation between…

The final leaving examination grades were significantly correlated with some personality characteristics of the male counselors. They were not significantly related, however, to any female personality variable or any other criterion rating for male or female students. (Author)

Counselor empathy is understanding a client's experience cognitively and affectively. The authors question if it is possible for empathy to exist at a functional level when shared experience does not. They examine the properties of empathy and suggest use of literature to enhance empathic development in counselors. (Author)

The background of the teaching experience requirement for counselors is examined and a survey of research studies reported. The evidence suggests that teaching experience is not related to success as a counselor and, perhaps, may be detrimental. (Author)

Examines methods of training counselors and others for intercultural effectiveness as a vehicle for addressing the questions of how cultural expertise is utilized in multicultural training. Explores the notion of expertise as a content issue and an outcome criterion in efforts to train counselors to be more widely effective with culturally diverse…