This study assessed individual psychotherapy outcome after systematically matching patients and therapists on a set of 11 psychological variables selected by factor-analytic techniques. Using therapists' ratings of therapy outcome as the criterion, five regression equations evolved that validly and reliably predict outcome for certain patient or…

A model was proposed for matching client problems with counselling approaches within the framework of an eclectic stance. A thesis was advanced that certain client problems are best handled using differential counselling techniques. (Author)

High school sophomores (N=104) aspiring to be peer counselors were studied to determine whether trainees, blocked on variables of dependency-independency, would learn helping skills of open-ended comments more effectively from microcounseling using a high-status model or one in which no special status was attributed to the model. Results are…

This project investigated the probabilistic interactional structure of counseling interviews conducted by two groups of counselors of differing levels of cognitive complexity, and the consistency of that structure within each group across sequences of two interviews. Analysis of the counselor-client interaction patterns between the two groups of…

Counseling in small groups was planned for a sample of youth from the Neighborhood Youth Corps (NYC). Five models were involved: (1) Interpersonal, (2) Intropersonal, (3) Problem Identification, (4) Perceptual Modification, and (5) Relationship. Each model, designed to elicit specified behavior, utilized task prescriptions, selective responding,…