The Two-Year College Student Development Center situated at the State University of New York at Albany held a series of five regional workshops to deal with the ever changing role of the two-year college. The reactions of about 250 two-year college people to the realities of change were recorded. The monograph contains five sections: (1) ideas…

This field study was undertaken to investigate the relationship between the level of counselor self-actualization and student perception of the guidance program. Self-actualization was measured by Shostrom's Personal Orientation Inventory (POI). Student perception of the guidance program was measured by Wysong's Guidance Program Evaluation Student…

This paper reviews and summarizes the findings of studies that examine the effects of race as a counselor-client variable in the counseling relationship. The first major grouping of the paper deals with studies on the preferences, attitudes, satisfactions, depth of self-exploration, and reporting of behavior and language patterns of the client.…

This study analyzes the effects of client sex, counselor sex, and client behavior on the responses of counselors during the initial stages of the counseling interview. Four client behavior situations are used: independent behavior; dependent behavior; high high achieving behavior; and low achieving behavior. Numerous significant differences were…

Volume IIA of The Study of Junior Colleges contains the technical appendixes to Volume II. The appendixes contain: (A) tables to Chapter 3 (Institutional Profiles) and the institutional profiles; (B) interview schedules for key administrators and tables to Chapter 4 (Administrative Profiles); (C) student marginal data and tables to Chapter 5…

The first of these two papers discusses the problems faced by practicum students in a newly-created counseling program at Louisiana State University. In an effort to provide a broader background, students were placed in community agencies during the summer months. Bi-weekly seminars kept each candidate abreast of the activities of the others.…

Doctoral students who had completed the Personality Research Form in 1973 were followed up three years later to determine the functional specialty in which they spend the bulk of their professional time. The findings support the position that personality needs predict functional specialty. (Author)

The secondary school counselor in a desegregated school is frequently in a position to identify ability in black students and to help them advance academically as well as to guide them in career choices. (JD)

Presents an argument regarding the professionalism of the school counselor, and how to define and identify this professionalism. Follows with a discussion of continuing education as an important component of professionalism, and provides an example in support of the thesis. (Author)

Examined the topic initiation/topic following sequence data from the beginning, middle, and late stages of 16 counseling dyads from eight counselors. Used loglinear analysis to examine variation because of the previous behavior of the other participant (interchain dependency), their own previous behavior (interchain dependency), outcome…

Examined relations among counselor and client cognitive and behavioral variables in relation to counselor and client ratings of counseling effectiveness. Results indicated that variables composed from both cognitive and behavioral data predicted participant ratings of counseling effectiveness more than did behavioral variables alone. (Author/NB)

Students in a 12-week facilitative skills development course completed a measure of moral development before and after training and were rated for empathic understanding of client statements on an analog videotape and a counseling audiotape. Empathy ratings on the videotape and audiotape correlated significantly with moral development scores,…

Examined effects of cultural mistrust on counseling expectations for Black clients assigned to both Black and White counselors. Found client mistrust level interacted significantly with counselor race. Highly mistrustful Blacks expected white counselors to be less accepting, trustworthy, and expert; they also expected less in terms of counseling…

Investigated the relationships between clients' early premature termination of counseling and ratings of their counselors' expertness, trustworthiness, and attractiveness and the extent to which clients believed that they were understood by their counselors. Conducted a follow-up survey to assess clients' reasons for terminating prematurely. Time…

Training programs that incorporated overt, covert, and combined over-covert practice modes were compared for their effects on developing counseling skills and confidence among undergraduate students. The combined practice group was superior to the control group on attending behaviors and empathy ratings. The overt practice group was superior to…