The authors assessed burnout, compassion fatigue, secondary trauma symptoms, and compassion satisfaction in relation to experienced therapists' perceptions of the working alliance. Participants, 106 specialists in the treatment of clients who commit sexual abuse, completed the Working Alliance Inventory-Short Form (T. J. Tracey & A. M.…

Tested Bandler and Grinder's proposal that eye movement direction and spoken predicates are indicative of sensory modality of imagery. Subjects reported images in the three modes, but no relation between imagery and eye movements or predicates was found. Visual images were most vivid and often reported. Most subjects rated themselves as visual,…

The results yielded little evidence that the two methods of supervision were significantly different. More than half of the variance in how a trainee expected to be perceived by his clients was accounted for by knowing how he perceived his supervisor. (Author)

Used multidimensional research design to assess the salient dimensions that supervisors rely on in their perceptions of supervisor roles and to test models. Three dimensions emerged based on supervisor roles: supervision environment, supervision function, and characteristics of supervisor roles. The results partially supported a two-dimensional…

Results showed that the two-chair dialog applied at a split produced more depth of experiencing than did focusing plus emphatic reflection. Both treatments produced significantly greater reported shifts in awareness and progress than the no-treatment controls. (Author)

University students and faculty rank-ordered four counseling center titles in terms of the likelihood that they would utilize services offered by the centers. Results indicated that the counseling center title was very important to students and faculty in determining their use of a counseling center. (Author/BL)

Researchers examining the therapy relationship are encouraged "to study both patients' and therapists' contribution to the relationship and the ways in which these contributions combine to impact treatment outcome" (Steering Committee, 2002, p. 443). Research on the therapeutic alliance, however, is dominated by studies that examine the individual…

Schmidt and Strong's data (same journal, v17, 1970) on student ratings of the expertness of counselors versus training and experience of the counselors subjected to a least squares test, indicate that expertness as judged by students is not correlated in any simple way with experience but rather that the students liked one of the counselors,…

Investigated the moderating effect of high and low anxiety on counselor perception of stages of dying. After completing the A-state scale, subjects observed a terminally ill speaker. Results indicated that high-anxious subjects, when compared with low-anxious, perceived the speakers as more denying, more angry, less accepting, and less hopeful.…

Past subscribers to this journal were surveyed to examine articles' perceived utility, strengths, and weaknesses. Subscribers often worked in universities and were involved in research in counseling psychology. Strengths included research design/methodology, relevance to practice, writing quality, and scholarly rigor. Weaknesses included esoteric…

Reports a personal commitment dimension in client expectancies about counseling. The findings extend and amplify considerably the information available on the dimensions underlying client expectancies about counseling. (Author)

Differences in presenting problems and counselor age were perceived as intended. Subjects' marital status was unrelated to any measures. Counselors were judged as most expert, attractive, and trustworthy when dealing with presenting problems that were least intimate. Subjects anticipated greater satisfaction with younger rather than older…

Examined the effects of counselor self-disclosure and paradoxical homework directives on perceived counselor social influence. Results indicated that paradoxical directives were not damaging to perceptions of counselor social influence and that counselor self-disclosure did not affect perceptions of counselor social influence. (Author/BL)

Investigated the relation of clients' locus of control (LOC) orientation to problem perception and initiative in counseling (N=50). Findings supported the relation between perception of locus of problem source on an external-internal dimension and LOC orientation. Extent of internality of LOC was related to client initiative. (JAC)

Tested three explanations for the differential impact of verbal and nonverbal cues on perceptions of counselor expertness, attractiveness, and trustworthiness: cue availability, vividness, and salience-vividness. Results suggest cue availability is not a compelling explanation for the power of nonverbal communications, vividness accounts for…