The Affective Sensitivity Scale was administered in 16 master's level counseling students. A year later, each subject brought in a recorded audiotape with a client from his secondary school field setting. These tapes were rated on empathy, nonpossessive warmth, and genuineness on the Truax scales of Facilitative Interpersonal Functioning. A high…

Author suggests 7 basic operating attitudes that an admissions officer or counselor should adopt. (Author/PG)

Describes some of the pitfalls of school counseling today, mainly because of guidance". (AN)

This study examined the usefulness of the Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire in differentiating characteristics of counselors who were rated effective and ineffective. (Author)

This research has opened a number of avenues of inquiry that could be profitably pursued in exploring the relevance of empathy, warmth, and genuineness in school counseling situations. (Author)

The present study was designed to measure creativity changes in counselors. The findings suggest that the increase in authoritarianism in counselors may result from the more management oriented role that counselors are expected to assume. (Author)

Generally, it was found that community college counselors possessed a more varied experiential background that did the university counselors. They were also less likely to be involved in duties other than counseling. (Author)

Counseling tends to ignore the analytic contributions of professional philosophy for understanding the nature of value and value theory. Counseling will be a better art when counselors are as concerned with what philosophy says about values as they are with the contributions of the social sciences. (Author)

The data suggest that high level practicum instructors are usually able to offset the effects of low level individual supervisors. The study again indicates that only those counseling trainees who come in contact with individuals functioning at high levels of facilitative conditions will themselves grow on these dimensions. (Author)

This interview with Chicano children reveals a striking portrait of the characteristics in a counselor that attract or inhibit them. Their perceptions dramatize the significance of verbal and nonverbal behavior in establishing early patterns of communication between Anglo counselors and Chicano youth. (Author)

Based on the results of this study it may be concluded that boys and girls in grades 9 through 12 are most concerned about their vocational and educational future, while those in 7 and 8 are concerned about home and family, school, health and physical development. (Author)

Study results indicated that high liking and high empathy together did not predict successful outcome, though a post hoc analysis showed a positive relationship between high empathy alone and successful outcome. Results also indicated that inexperienced therapists were generally less empathic than experienced therapists. (Author)