Most retired counselors are financially comfortable and continue to lead happy and productive lives in retirement. Counselors emphasize the need to remain active and stress the importance of planning well in advance of actual retirement. (Author)

A survey of the use and usefulness of psychological reports was completed with rehabilitation counselors in Kentucky and Illinois. Results suggested that problems rehabilitation counselors have with services delivered by contract psychologists include nonspecific and unrealistic recommendations and too little individualization of reports. (Author)

Attempts is to help counselors increase awareness and understanding of sexual attitudes and behavior of clients with whom they interact in therapeutic settings. Examines empirical findings from current Canadian sex research to determine some of the dominant changes in attitudes. (Author)

Rogers proposes that counselors give away their personal power in order to empower their clients, a political approach which is traditionally feminine. Presently, however, women counselors may have more difficulty than men counselors in relinquishing their newly acquired and hard-won personal power. (Author)

Findings indicate that highly flexible self-disclosers evidence a heightened social perceptiveness. They also evidence significantly greater affective empathy and more accurate perceptions of facilitative responding than do less flexible disclosers. (Author)

Analyzes the impact of world views on professional life style and counselor value systems. A philosophical approach is outlined. Theism, deism, agnosticism and antheism are discussed. Another author reviews this approach and urges counselors to focus on the philosophical area of axiology. (Author/CC)

Argues that behavior therapists are really ethical relativists and sometimes ethical skeptics. Ethical naturalism found in operant behavior therapy does entail ethical relativism. Other authors respond to these views. (Author)

Workers involved in counseling potential abortion recipients are subject to strains. The author uses observations made at one abortion clinic to conclude that these strains and methods of coping developed by staff and administration must be considered in formulating any policy on abortion. (Author)

Therapists (N=30) rated bipolar adjectives of the Sex-Role Stereotypes Questionnaire as to which pole was a problem for their average male and female clients. Female clients were viewed as too feminine on both socially desirable and undesirable adjectives. Problems of male clients were not viewed in sex stereotypic ways on specific stereotypes.…

The study reports on the views of 154 clinical psychologists who designated themselves as eclectics. Many stated that no current theory was adequate for handling the diversity of clients seen in practice; clinicians must select the approach that best fits a given clients. Findings suggest implications for research on psychotherapy. (Author)

Too often, counselors engage in a game of hide-and-seek with bias, using their complicated measuring devices, their expertise in the empirical, their concepts of validity and reliability, their jargon, and all the other sophisticated paraphernalia of the trade to rationalize and protect their own biases and generalizations. Implications are…

Provides an overview of boundary matters and examines essential therapeutic qualities, such as empathy, for their boundary-crossing expectations. Considers boundary management and the never-ending need for dynamic involvement and professional judgment. Claims that boundaries must be preserved, but actions should not be so rigid as to hinder…

Explores those characteristics of telephone counselor communication most likely to be associated with positive caller outcomes when the caller's problem involved both practical and emotional concerns. Results show that the more helpful counselors were more verbally active, took the initiative to structure the interview, and explored all aspects of…

Compares counseling to the choreography of dance. Reviews other counseling structures, such as the scientific process, and then introduces the "choreography of counseling." Claims that counseling, as in a dance performance, involves an introduction, exploration, exposition, and resolution. Offers principles and techniques for success in each of…

Examined reasons for negative attitudes toward children with severe burns by surveying 226 counseling and rehabilitation students. Results suggest that pessimistic expectations and negative attitudes built on conjecture are due to four sources: social standards of beauty, emotionality of the observer, reminders of personal vulnerability, and…