A study examined California secondary public school counselors' perceptions of the value of secondary home economics courses; the degree to which the counselors provided students with information on home economics courses and careers; and the counselors' views as to what extent home economics courses reinforce basic academic skills, prepare…

This study hypothesized that male counselors whose sexual orientation and physical characteristics do not conform to conventional notions of masculinity (those who have had homosexual experiences and who do not fit the mesomorphic ideal) will be less traditional in their gender role attitudes, behaviors, and beliefs than those who adhere to more…

Although some psychotherapists have adopted aspects of mentoring in their style of therapy, there is little research on behavior change resulting from effective mentoring relationships. To investigate and evaluate the extent to which psychotherapists use mentoring and judge it to be effective with young adult clients, 110 psychotherapists and 90…

Research has suggested that physical attractiveness contributes to subjects' perception of female competency. This finding has generated interest in investigating the effect of physical attractiveness on subjects' perceptions of competency in male and female therapists. Undergraduates (N=192) viewed a 15-minute videotaped session reflecting either…

This project investigated the probabilistic interactional structure of counseling interviews conducted by two groups of counselors of differing levels of cognitive complexity, and the consistency of that structure within each group across sequences of two interviews. Analysis of the counselor-client interaction patterns between the two groups of…

Little research in the existing literature attempts to define feminist therapy by incorporating the specific experiences and philosophies of those who describe themselves as feminist therapists. Even less information is available about the perceptions of their clients. Therapists and their clients answered questions about the theoretical…

Sexual feelings between therapist and client have been a source of theoretical controversy since the beginnings of modern psychotherapy. Psychotherapists' (N=72) verbal behavior, affective reactions, and clinical judgments in response to audiotapes of client sexual material were investigated. Therapist gender, client gender, and type of sexual…

This paper presents the results of a study of 211 North Carolina school counselors within their first five years of the profession. The counselors were surveyed as to their functions, areas of competence, and areas of professional difficulty. Professional difficulty was defined as a discrepancy between function and competence. From the study, a…

The inferior position of women in the world of work is discussed as a backdrop for this study which sought to test the hypothesis that counselors are biased against women entering a "masculine" occupation. A coached female counselee, portraying a college junior who is having difficulty deciding between teaching and engineering, was privately…

A series of suggested modifications in the scientific reporting of counseling research is presented. The suggested modifications are in five areas: (1) characteristics of research designs in counseling research, (2) within group differences in outcome research, (3) research on the selection of counselors, (4) research on the assessment of…

This report deals with the continuing education of rehabilitation counselors both during and through employment. This type of a program requires information on how: (1) the structure and patterning of tasks in the work milieu, (2) administrative practices and attitudes, and (3) counselor characteristics can specifically influence what effect…

To determine the degree of school counselors' favorableness toward postsecondary vocational-technical education and to identify factors from counselors' backgrounds that are related to their perceptions of vocational-technical education, questionnaires were mailed to all Colorado secondary school counselors who devoted at least half their time to…

In order to provide counseling services to ethnic minorities in a large university, a program was initiated to train minority students to function as counselors. The training program consisted of a one-quarter course in counseling. Approximately 70 students enrolled in the course, instructed by two psychiatrists, a counseling psychologist, and two…

The effect of rehabilitation counselor attitudes and specific behaviors on the potential for rehabilitation of the person with cancer was studied. Data indicate intensive, short-term workshops may not facilitate positive attitude change but merely intensify the existing attitudes of the participants. (Author)