Study results indicate that counseling educators should consider the possibility that counselors' and counselees' learning styles have some influence on interview behavior. The finding that impulsive and constricted counselees tended to engage in similar amounts of leading behavior suggests the need for additional research. (Author)

The purpose of this review was to investigate the relationship between counselor characteristics and reports of effectiveness. The theoretical position appears to focus on two opposing views. The humanists emphasize the influence of intuition, genuineness, and spontaneity, while the behaviorists place importance on technique, analysis of…

Discusses stylized behavior, defined as acting and responding in a particular way, in the context of the counseling supervisor/trainee relationship. The supervisor must deal with this problem if trainees are to become effective counselors. (Author/HMV)

Investigated the relationship between verbal behavior patterns and supervisor (N=9) and trainee (N=30) judgments of satisfaction in the supervision interview. Results confirm the predictive validity of verbal behavior. Negative social emotional behavior added to the discomfort experienced. Use of excessive supportive communication is in question…

Focusing on the cognitive style known as Field-Dependence-Independence (FDI), this literature review includes: (1) an examination of how one can better understand interpersonal behavior in the human relations training setting; (2) how to develop hypotheses about the relationships that might make for successful or unsuccessful matches between…

Skills training, personal-emotional development, and cognitive development are areas of importance in counselor training and education. Emotion, defined as the counselor's experiencing a strong feeling accompanied by physiological activity and the interruption, however momentary, of the counselor's ongoing cognition, is a critical factor in…