The Affective Sensitivity Scale was administered in 16 master's level counseling students. A year later, each subject brought in a recorded audiotape with a client from his secondary school field setting. These tapes were rated on empathy, nonpossessive warmth, and genuineness on the Truax scales of Facilitative Interpersonal Functioning. A high…

This research has opened a number of avenues of inquiry that could be profitably pursued in exploring the relevance of empathy, warmth, and genuineness in school counseling situations. (Author)

Study results indicated that high liking and high empathy together did not predict successful outcome, though a post hoc analysis showed a positive relationship between high empathy alone and successful outcome. Results also indicated that inexperienced therapists were generally less empathic than experienced therapists. (Author)

Subjects were given a set emphasizing the importance of facilitative conditions or one in which no specific mention was made of the conditions. Although learning was not clearly demonstrated, the results indicated that the experimenters high in facilitative conditions elicited a greater percentage of the response class than did experimenters low…

The research review concludes that: (1) more attention be given to matching of patient and therapist, either on basis of complementarity or similarity; and (2) since scale apparently is not associated with empathy and genuineness there may be dimensions of interventions other than those studied by Rogers and his students. Presented at American…

Techniques used by five interns build upon establishment of a strong relationship with the client, client acknowledgement of responsibility for his behaviors, acceptance by counselor of himself, search for hidden client feelings, and reinforcement. (CJ)

Cicchetti and Ryan criticize Beutler et al's recent report. They claim that it suggests using the number of patients rather than the number of therapists as the appropriate unit for analyzing the reliability of process psychotherapy variables. In response, Beutler states that the criticism confounds methodological and statistical issues. (NG)

Administered a test of all-inclusive conceptualization (AIC) to 28 counseling practicum students who submitted audiotapes of counseling sessions which were rated on the level of empathic understanding. The correlations indicated that trainees who scored higher on the test of AIC offered their clients lower levels of empathic understanding. (JAC)

The data indicated: (a) clients perceived greater self-exploration than counselors or raters; (b) confrontive counselors perceived greater self-exploration than speculative counselors; and (c) neither raters' nor clients' estimates of self-exploration differed across speculative or confrontive counselors. (Author)

It was found that anxiety decreased significantly during the course of the institute. No significant relationship was found between anxiety and empathy changes. It appears that such changes in trainees may be related to length of training. (Author)

Results revealed that interpersonal attraction differentially affects the three facilitative dimensions and that experience mediates attraction differentially depending on the type rather than the amount of experience the supervisor has had. (Author)

Study results show a substantial increase on accurate empathy but no overall gains on nonpossessive warmth, with some decrease among those counselors initially displaying high levels of warmth. (Author/CJ)

Findings are consistent with previous research which has suggested the therapeutic relevance of empathy across a wide range of clientele and treatment setting. This study demonstrates the relationship of empathy and warmth to attitudes and behaviors observable outside the psychotherapy process. (Author)