The purpose of this study was to develop and validate the Concerns about Counseling Racial Minority Clients (CCRMC) scale among counselor trainees. Sample 1 was used for an exploratory factor analysis and confirmatory factor analysis. Four factors were identified, Managing Cultural Differences ([alpha] = 0.82), Offending or Hurting Clients…

Explores the issue of premature termination of therapy using the client readiness variables reflected in the stages and processes of change and proposed in Prochaska and DiClemente's transtheoretical model. This study used these variables to distinguish between premature and nonpremature terminators in a college counseling. Results indicated that…

Studied client retrospective recall of major misunderstanding events in 19 cases of therapy. Found that good relationship, clients' willingness to assert negative feelings about being misunderstood, and therapists' facilitation of mutual repair effort through maintaining flexible and accepting stance typically led to resolution. (Author/NB)

Investigated compliance as a function of counselor, client, and therapy variables. Results indicated that variables associated with the conduct of counseling more strongly influenced compliance with homework than did either counselor or client variables. (Author/BL)

Assessed relation between conceptual system functioning and expectations about counseling by linking client expectations to a stable personality dimension and providing the conceptual system model, rather than the conceptual level, as the theoretical rationale in 60 counseling clients. Results support need to consider influence of conceptual…

Used Session Impacts Scale (SIS), brief client-report measure of experienced impacts of therapy sessions to gather data from 48 depressed clients seen in short-term process-experiential treatment. Factor analyses were consistent with expected hierarchical structure of measure (Helpful Impacts and Hindering Impacts, with Helpful Impacts divided…

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…

Extended analog research on information about counselors' values and orientation needed for informed consent in counseling. Women (N=172) seeking treatment at a psychiatric hospital and clinic read either advertisement or explicit description of traditional or feminist counselor. Found simple label not adequate in triggering set of accurate…

Examined rates of childhood sexual abuse, in 300 university counseling center clients, obtained through direct interview questioning, pencil-and-paper questioning, and client records. Found significant differences in prevalence rates between clients directly queried and clients from whom information was expected to arise during course of…

Responds to article by Lopez, Lopez, and Fong in which research was reviewed on Mexican Americans' reactions to ethnically similar and dissimilar counselors. Reexamines choice and judgment methodologies, discusses limitations of simple choice methodology, and expresses concern that simple choice methodology in cross-cultural counseling research…

Responds to previous article by Atkinson and Wampold in which original article by Lopez, Lopez, and Fong examining Mexican Americans' reactions to ethnically similar and dissimilar counselors was reviewed. Suggests that emphasis placed on given method and interpretation of given findings may reflect degree to which researchers value role of…

Revised Client Verbal Response Category System by creating client behavior system (CBS), which includes eight nominal, mutually exclusive categories. When CBS was used to rate predominant client behavior in middle sessions, adequate interjudge agreement was found, with cognitive-behavioral exploration occurring most frequently. Client experiencing…

Eight clients participated in interpersonal process recall interviews to review therapy sessions in which they explored problematic reactions. Grounded theory analysis of reports resulted in model of cognitive-affective operations characterizing clients' internal processes during sessions. Model's main categories were client operations and session…

Examined psychometric properties of Client Resistance Scale (CRS). Results indicated that CRS subscales were reliable with data from master's-level judges who rated client speaking turns for six sessions with six expert therapists. Subscales were significantly positively correlated with each other, and client resistance differed as function of…

Describes the Expectations About Counseling (EAC) questionnaire, a promising instrument that may help standardize research on expectations. Used the EAC to compare expectations of student nonclients, student clients, and nonstudent clients (N=78). No statistically significant differences were found among the groups. (BH)