Therapeutic relationship as perceived by clients (N=54) and therapists (N=8) at a community mental health clinic was rated on five main factors: understanding, accepting, critical, independence-encouraging, and authoritarian (directive). Findings indicated that client perceptions of therapists as understanding and accepting were correlated most…

Investigated client self-disclosure and client perception of counselors. Subjects rated counselors on intelligence and empathy, and while role-playing clients in therapy. Clients disclosed more to male counselors when counselors were high in status or attractiveness. Suggests the effect of counselor gender depends on an interaction with other…