The key conclusion is that institute supervisors and institute members have significantly higher positive agreement on who is a good counselor than that found among supervisors and students in a regular education program. (Author)

Presents history of eclecticism as counseling point of view. Describes emerging eclecticism as promising counselor role. From theory and observation eclectic creates own evolving view of behavior change. Comments by E. J. Shoben, Jr. follow. (CJ)

Interviews with an angry client made by counselors judged to be high or low empathic responders were compared on the stylistic complexity and the inherent semantic relations of their language. Significant differences were not found between counselors on information block length and use of state verb phrases. (Author)

Illustrates the use of implosive therapy using a case study of a woman with a fear of injections. Follow-up showed therapeutic gains were sustained. Issues including the client's and therapist's personality were discussed within multimodal behavior therapy. (JAC)

Studied the effects of counselor status and weight and client gender on initial perceptions of counselor expertness, attractiveness, and trustworthiness. Student (N=80) response to counselor photographs indicated counselors introduced as having high status were perceived as being more expert and trustworthy. The influence of body weight was…

Explored the extent to which counselor and client age affect clients' perceptions of counselor preference for several methods of social influence, i.e., the expert, referent, or legitimate methods. Results suggested that counselor's age made no difference in client expectations. (Author/RC)

Investigated the predictions of social influence theory with respect to client resistance to counselor influence. Data offered support for the social influence theory in that subjects' expectations of others' instrumental behavior were lower for those who viewed illegitimate counselors. (Author)

Attempted to discover from counseling professionals and clients what they saw as the most pertinent issues, e.g., fees, compatibility, clients could use in selecting a counseling professional. Results in both studies indicated the presence of general unifying concepts pertinent to consumer evaluation of potential counseling professionals.…

Peer reviewers (N=70) of a psychodynamic, behavioral, or eclectic theoretical orientation evaluated one of three clinical treatment reports. Psychodynamic reviewers rated patients as more disturbed and in need of psychotherapy, and they were consistently more positive in their ratings of treatment. (Author)

Reported the stress and coping experience of community volunteers who counseled dying clients and their families. Volunteers most frequently reported turning to themselves or to the client when distressed, also to peers, friends, and family. A common role-defined purpose was significant in stress response and coping. (Author)

Studied trust in counselor-client relationships. Experimental results supported the contention that clients will perceive their counselors as more trustworthy when the counselor matches the Primary Representational System (PRS) of the client. The strategy of noting eye movements tended to be more reliable in assessing PRS than listening to…

Examined the relationship of counselor gender to client return rate. Results showed male counselors had higher return rates regardless of their level of experience, the gender of clients, the concerns of clients, or the severity of those concerns. The generalizability of the results of an earlier study are questioned. (Author)

Investigated impact of client and therapist gender on psychotherapy process and outcome. Clients, regardless of gender, agreed that women therapists formed more effective therapeutic alliances but both male and female clients of male therapists reported significant improvement as a result of therapy. (Author)

Explored the relationship between therapist-client compatibility, sex of therapist, and psychotherapeutic outcome. Results suggested the sex of therapist did not have a significant differential effect. There was no consistent effect between dyadic compatibility and sex of therapist. Differences in therapeutic outcome across levels of compatibility…

Explored the utility of Personal Orientation Inventory (POI) as a screening device for drug abuse counselors. On the basis of their POI profiles, counselors were split into two groups: high versus low actualizing. Correlated clients' POI scores with counselors' prognostic rating. Results indicated some correlations for high-actualizing counselors.…