Comparisons between volunteer telephone counselors and nonvolunteer college students were made on several psychological tests: the Tennessee Self-Concept Scale, the Personal Orientation Inventory, and the Self-Disclosure Questionnaire. In their self-concepts, the groups differed only in moral-ethical self perceptions. The counselors' scores…

This brief study evaluates a method for selecting college students as therapeutic agents (called the group assessment of interpersonal traits). The data suggest that use of this method may increase the number of false negatives but the likelihood of selecting false positives is not increased. Peer modeling reduces effectiveness of group members…

Drawing on the insights of Ruth Benedict and Abraham Maslow in their search for an ethical gauge by which to rate personal-social health, this article proposes synergistic man'' as the desired outcome model for counselors. (Author)

A consistent finding was that across facilitative conditions, the low facilitators generally changed significantly more than the high facilitators, and significantly more so with students than with patients. (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)

Development in a child of a sense of his own worth. (CK)

The results of the study confirmed the hypothesis that greater patient identification with the therapist, as defined by increased similarity between the patient's and therapist's semantic differential ratings, moderately correlated with more successful therapy outcome. (Author)

The data of the study indicated that the younger, less experienced interviewers were more effective in their counseling behavior than were the older, more experienced interviewers. Because of increased levels of rigidity and decreased levels of performance, training supervisors should not neglect the needs of older, more experienced personnel.…

Some of the results of this study were that counselors, regardless of sex, rated conforming goals as more appropriate than deviate and, counselors, regardless of sex, rated female clients wth deviate career goals to be more in need of counseling than those with conforming goals. (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)

The results of this study suggest that the respondees place great significance on those characteristics which are demanding of interpersonal skills and deemphasize those characteristics which represent attributes of the individual. (Author)

This study investigated the extent to which empathy, self actualization, and leadership in group discussion situations would predict the criterion of who would be hired as resident fellows (RF). Since leaderless group discussion did differentiate with some degree of "accuracy" it promises to be an excellent future device for use with RF selection.…

This study provides several basic descriptive statistics relevant to the newly established counselor education programs in Great Britain. Britain's commitment to its Commonwealth nations adds a dimension with which few American training programs have had to cope. (Author)

This paper describes a content analysis scale, the Counselor Activity Profile, that can be used to objectively and systematically quantify and profile a counselor's interview behavior according to the amount of interview time devoted to various discrete counseling responses. Research done with the scale is also described. (Author)