The author surveys the writings of the last eight years of "Social Work" in order to study the profession's attitude toward the sex factor (sex of case worker and of client groups), and to determine whether and how this factor has been interpreted in professional thinking. (Author/EAK)

Results of this study indicated that the degree of perceived counselor's empathy, warmth, genuineness, intimacy, concreteness, expertness, regard, and congruence was linearly related to the level of counselor's self-confidence. (Author)

This final of two papers regarding the values of the older counselor in dealing with the elderly stresses the distinctive contributions that he may make if he himself is resident in an institution of the old. (Author)

Despite limitations in the results of the present study, these results were tentatively interpreted to indicate that the Tests of Social Intelligence have potential worth for further investigation in the identification of counselor trainees. (Author)

Personality characteristics of effective paraprofessional counselor trainees were compared with those of effective counselor education students using a standardized personality inventory and the Counselor Evaluation Rating Scale. The effective paraprofessionals and the effective counselor education students in the study were remarkably similar in…

This study investigated the effects of two supervisory roles when used within the small group practicum seminar, on counselor trainees' ability to emit understanding, affective, and exploratory responses in their final counseling interviews. Significant differences were observed only in the ability of the trainees to emit understanding responses.…

Peer ratings of counselors in a graduate practicum were explored. The nature and direction of the differences between the subjects ranked in the highest and lowest quarters by their peers suggested valid discriminations between graduate students of both sexes with regard to potential as counselors. (Author)

Differentiates and elaborates on the need, usefulness, and relationship between counseling theory and philosophy. (Author/EK)

Article raises and answers questions about the relationship among constructs of creativity manifested by counselor trainees. The Porter Test of Counselor Attitudes, Consequences test and Alternate Uses test were administered to 27 graduate students in counselor education. Creativity was shown to have influence on the counselor's approach. Data…

Counselor-offered conditions of empathy, nonpossessive warmth, genuineness, and intensity of interpersonal contact were self-evaluated by 44 counselors and compared with supervisors' evaluations of tape recorded sessions. Findings are discussed. (Author)

The hypothesis was confirmed that behavioral counselors who were facilitative, that is, high in their offerings of warmth, empathy, and genuineness would be more effective than nonfacilitative behavioral counselors, that is, low in their offerings of warmth, empathy and genuineness. (Author/CG(

The results showed that in spite of violently different feelings about (or descriptions of) the roles, the subjects were equally influenced by them. This suggests that social attractiveness may not be important when the client's problems require expert opinion and knowledge. (Author/CG(

In light of the spread of unionization to professional fields and rising client rejection of professional rights to unique expertise, the estimate may well be that professionalization is no longer the preferred route to job autonomy, high income, and social status for occupations with knowledge claims. (Author/MB)