Surveys master's level rehabilitation counseling students and examines percentage of time students spend involved in client contact and paperwork during their internship. Time spent in client contact was nearly double that spent doing paperwork for this group. Data from a number of settings are discussed. (Author)

Explores the experiences of prepracticum trainees, focusing on changes in trainees' anxiety, self-efficacy, counter-transference management, and therapeutic skills. Results indicate that trainees became less anxious and developed greater skills over the semester. Qualitative results suggest that some trainees' reactions interfered with their…

Examined relationship between gender and sex role orientation of clients as predictors of counselors' interpersonal impressions of them and treatment expectancies. Findings from 16 counseling psychology doctoral student counselors concerning 47 clients suggest that highly masculine and highly feminine clients (regardless of gender) are perceived…

Examined validity and reliability of Hutchins Behavior Inventory (HBI), instrument designed to assess client's thinking, feeling, or acting dominance. Findings from 172 student residence hall counselors demonstrated good construct validity of the HBI and sufficient reliability. Moderate reliability estimates for intensity scores and somewhat low…

Surveyed 73 American Indian and 81 white college students to determine preferences for counselor characteristics when facing academic or personal problems. Found both groups most preferred counselor with similar attitudes and values. Similar ethnicity appeared more important to American Indian students. Dissimilar characteristics were consistently…

Study examines congruence levels between client and counselor beliefs about psychological problems and its impact on counseling outcomes. Results indicate that clients and counselors endorsed different views for causation and treatment of psychological problems. Counseling outcomes were unaffected by congruence levels. Discusses practical…

The generally held hypothesis that a client will be more verbally accessible if she thinks her interviewer is like herself was not supported. In fact, the opposite was significantly true. The authors discuss possible reasons for the unexpected results they obtained. (SE)

Theorists and therapists have become increasingly attentive to the role of interpersonal behaviors that facilitate or hinder the ability of the counselor to exert influence over the client during counseling. A study was conducted to examine the impact of a counselor's preference that clients not smoke, client stress levels, client sex, and…

What is the cause and effect on young people of the actions we take, the policies we use, the statements we make? As counselors, educators, and parents we often tell young people to do as we say without thinking about what we do or how we act. (Author)

This study revealed practitioners place greatest importance on those variables usually associated with a more "active" approach to counseling while the educators identify more closely with those variables associated with a more "passive" approach to counseling. (Author)

Examined influence of client intelligence quotient (IQ) scores on placement recommendations by rehabilitation students (N=59). Clients' IQ scores were found to influence significantly number of placement options generated by the participants, but had no significant impact on prediction of vocational success or willingness to work with the client.…

Compared counselor intake judgment about White and Black clients at a university counseling center. Counselors reported significantly higher ratings on judged potential for change in Black as compared to White clients. Type and severity of presenting problem, client anxiety level, ease of expression, motivation, realism of goals, and physical…

A survey of general faculty, faculty advisors, and department heads in four universities to examine attitudes about the importance of academic advising and its rewards shows that advising does not rate high in the traditional academic reward structure. What rewards there are come from departments and department heads. (MSE)

Investigated responses of counselor trainees (N=31) to easy versus difficult clients in terms of clinical judgments. Results indicated that clients with a difficult interpersonal style were not regarded as more psychologically disturbed, but were rated as having less potential for change and less ego strength. (LLL)

Identified six dimensions of personal constructs related to rehabilitation counseling as the first part of an investigation into how these variables influence clinical problem solving. Findings have implications for competence assessment research, definition of the affective domain in rehabilitation counseling, and identification of its unique…