Made two counseling videotapes: Tape A proposed to be consistent with cultural upbringing and values of international students, and Tape B proposed to by culturally discrepant. Two tapes were empirically shown to be significantly different from each other by counseling professionals as well as by counselor trainees. Both counseling perspectives…

Charted internalization of therapeutic relationships of 48 clients in short-term psychotherapy at 2 university counseling centers. Clients reported perceptions of counselor's actions and attitudes, own actions and attitudes toward counselors, and intrapsychic dispositions. Results suggest that clients internalized dispositions that they perceived…

Client and counselor ratings of student distress were compared with MMPI-2 College Maladjustment (Mt) scale (Butcher, et al; 1989) score for 78 Canadian undergraduate students seeking counseling. Mt scores were consistent with subjective ratings of problem severity and accounted for more variance in client ratings of social and general functioning…

To test a previous study on therapist bias and to investigate whether gender-role stereotypes continue to influence judgments of mental health workers, 55 Master's-level counselors-in-training, from 2 different programs, were administered questionnaires. Each item in the questionnaire was rated on a seven-point scale, with one pole being typically…

Most research on premature termination from therapy has focused on client attitudes. This study examined therapists' attitudes toward their own behavior and toward their clients at intake in relation to premature termination. Premature termination was studied after different numbers of sessions to determine the relationship of therapist attitudes…

Efforts to enhance the effectiveness of cross-cultural interventions have emphasized the need for counselors to assess their own as well as their client's cultural value systems. To assess cultural world views, the Cultural Attitudes Repertory Technique (CART), which examines the content and structure of an individual's personal system of cultural…

The counseling profession has changed emphasis over the past 20 years reflecting a movement in the field from public school to community service to private business. Consequently there has also been a change in the profile of counselor trainees. Data from students (N=238) having attended the counselor training graduate programs at Indiana…

The Summer Institute in Counseling Girls and Women, a training model offered by the Graduate School of Education's Psychology in Education Program at the University of Pennsylvania, is described. The Summer Institute integrates the three curricular areas of the psychology of women, counseling of women, and organizational and program development to…

Theories and selected research on stereotyping and cognitive automaticity are presented as a resource base for multicultural counselor educators. Three multicultural competencies are identified: (1) personal beliefs/attitudes; (2) cultural knowledge; and (3) multicultural skills. The objective is to make self-awareness of covert prejudicial…

A graduate-level course to introduce future faculty, staff, counselors, and administrators to the role of advising and the advisor in higher education is described. The course includes segments on organizational models and delivery systems, techniques and resources, special problems and populations, and career advising. Communication skills are…

Discusses conflicts that may arise when research is conducted in a university counseling center. Sources of conflict include philosophical assumptions about research, practical problems involved in carrying out the research, and ethical constraints. (Author)

College women (N=150) viewed videotaped counseling vignettes varied by feminist orientation of counselor and explicitness of counselor's value statement about her approach. Subjects preferred feminist counselor for career and sexual assault concerns but no significant differences across counselors for personal concerns. Observed significant…

Female counselor trainees (N=28) in a facilitative skills development course were rated for empathy on the basis of written responses to two videotaped vignettes--one Kohlbergian moral dilemma and one morally neutral dilemma. Found students responded more empathically to morally neutral task than to Kohlbergian task. (Author/TE)

Psychology graduate students (n=185) responded to case descriptions in which client gender, alcoholism, and socioeconomic status (SES) were manipulated. Found consistent, negative effect of client alcoholism on several prognostic variables, including decision to hospitalize; tendency for female clients to be thought to require more therapy…

Investigated counselor trainee's recollections of early family structure and current intergenerational relationships. Found trainees who remained relatively free from "triangling" patterns with parents reported significantly greater spousal intimacy, more individuation from parents, and less triangulation with children and spouses.…