The author describes, and gives rationale for, a model for the delivery of counseling services to black youths through community organizations instead of schools. (RP)

The purpose of this investigation was to determine if levels of accurate empathy, nonpossessive warmth and genuineness provided by counselors in the initial counseling interview had continuing or termininating effects for normal persons, compared to the effects found with severe chronic schizophrenics. (Author)

Results indicated that students in counselor education were very similar to other Master's degree students on all but two scales of the Edwards. Counselors were found to be significantly more nurturant and less dominant than were administrators and supervisors. (Author)

This study examined supervisor commitment to supervisee as a variable related to the supervisor's provision of the facilitative dimensions of empathy, warmth, and genuineness. Results support the hypothesis that a positive relationship exists between a supervisor's commitment to his or her supervisee and the supervisor's ability to offer the…

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)