This study attempts to develop knowledge about personality dimensions of practicing counselors who have varying experiences, training, responsibility and the like. The areas proposed for study were the counselor personality profile on factors measured by the Stern Activities Index and the differences between measured personality dimensions of…

This report describes rehabilitation counselor perceptions of counselor characteristics which cause problems in counseling and vocational planning. Data were gathered as a part of a large scale survey of professional problems of rehabilitation counselors. Data specific to this study was obtained from counselor responses to a question concerning…

The purpose of this study was to examine high school journalism in seven states of the Middle West, i.e., to investigate curricular and co-curricular activities and related topics. Questionnaires were circulated early in 1969 to senior high schools in seven states: Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, and Wisconsin. Conclusions…

Simulated Administration of a Regular Guidance Operation (SARGO) is a program for the training of directors of guidance and pupil personnel services. The objective of SARGO is to prepare directors of guidance services to: (1) prepare a written description of a pupil personnel program; (2) interact with a school administrator to clarify role…

Clients from two university counseling centers (N=591) indicated the help sources they contacted before requesting counseling. Significant differences were found in the rank order in which contacts were made and in the ratings of the degree of helpfulness expected from counseling. (Author)

Content of interviewer self-disclosure regarding procrastination and study behavior as undergraduates was manipulated with all additional parameters of self-disclosure controlled. Results indicated that subjects in the positive disclosure condition expected to study significantly more hours and did study significantly more hours than subjects in…

Examined relationships among client's race, the type of problem for which a client is seeking counseling, and the client's preference for counselor characteristics. Results indicated that the patterns of preferences for counselor race did not seem to differ between black and white participants on the basis of type of client concern. (Author/ABB)

Designed a 50-item self-talk questionnaire to assess positive and negative self-talk of 73 counselor trainees prior to their initial client interviews. Practicum supervisors evaluated counseling effectiveness. Demonstrated that counselor trainees experienced predominantly positive rather than negative self-talk. However, neither the amounts, nor…

Discusses characteristic processes observed and therapeutic strategies used in an open-ended group of depressed outpatients. Used as criteria of success patient-therapist agreement to discontinue medication, finding a job, and establishing a friendship. Describes characteristics of members who stayed, and helpful therapist actions and attitudes,…

Investigated relation of counselor ability to articulate salient client information to continuance in weight loss program. Counselors predicted client responses to questions regarding weight loss problems more accurately for clients who later completed program than for those who dropped out. Within one completer group, greater weight loss occurred…

Process analyses revealed that interpretations and exploration of feelings were helpful across two cases of counseling. Other interventions were helpful for one case but not the other. (Author)

Adaptive Counseling and Therapy (ACT) is an integrative, metatheoretical model for selecting an appropriate therapeutic style based on the task-relevant development maturity of the client. The Counselor Behavior Analysis (CBA) Scale measures the central explanatory construct of ACT theory: counselor adaptability. Three studies designed to assess…

Underuse of university services by Mexican American students is examined in relation to students' cultural commitment, stress, counselor experience, and institutional variables. (Author)

Investigated influence of Christian values of clinicians and clients on judgments of prognosis, psychopathology, and locus of client problems. Both religious and nonreligious clinicians assigned moderately religious clients more pessimistic prognoses and greater psychopathology. Religious therapists made more internal attributions for the…

Reviews the available research on the effects of counselor sex on the effectiveness of therapy for female clients. It concludes that the research findings are not clear cut and that much remains to be done on the extent and effects of sex stereotyping in the therapeutic relationship. (NG)