Discusses ways in which multidimensional scaling can be used by counseling practitioners. Presents brief conceptual overview and describes application of multidimensional scaling in vocational, family, and group settings. Includes a case study of the author's use of multidimensional scaling as an intervention in counselor training groups. Also…

Discusses, from a feminist perspective, issues of anger, power, autonomy, and gender role stereotyping and their importance for women in counseling relationships. Reviews recommendations for training counselors in feminist or nonsexist therapy. (Author)

Contrasted counselors who disclosed personal material similar to client's problem, counselors who disclosed problematic but irrelevant information, counselors who disclosed nothing, and counselors whose similarity was revealed by someone else, using 60 college students role-playing clients. Found both disclosures and similarity information had…

Examined phenomenon of counselor-therapist disclosure through direct assessment of potential clients' desires for disclosure and through development of a measure of counselor disclosure. Results revealed that clients wanted information about counselors. (Author/NB)

Reviews studies which have explored how counselor trainees respond to client anger and assessed the effectiveness of techniques for teaching counselor trainees how to respond to client anger. Discusses the implications of this review for future research. (Author)

Compared skill-based and conceptual-based training method by measuring graduate level counselor trainees' (N=48) skill application in actual client interviews and client outcomes. Although groups did not differ in responding skills at pretest, skill-based group exhibited greater skill application in client interviews and superior client outcome…

Lists and describes a number of types of consultee resistance that commonly occur during consultation and discusses methods and techniques for dealing with these acts. Concludes with suggestions for empirical research to determine the effectiveness of various strategies for dealing with consultee resistance. (Author)

Examined the hypothesis that positive self-involving and self-disclosing counselor responses would be rated more favorably by college student subjects (N=214) than negative self-involving and self-disclosing counselor responses. Found counselor using positive self-involving responses was viewed as most interpersonally attractive. (Author/ABL)

Four studies examined role of philosophical commitments in directing preferences for types of counseling. First study provides partial support for relationship between epistemic commitments and preferences for types of counseling. Studies 2 and 3 extend findings, and study 4 provides tentative support for possibility that counselor trainees…

The counseling literature documents the profession's inception and growth in a variety of ways. Current examples include Counseling Today's "ACA Turns 50" feature series and "Passing the Tradition: ACES Presidents 1940-97" (Sheeley, 1997). Professional counselors often identify the late 1940s and early 1950s as the time of the profession's…

Proposes a direction for cross-cultural training and research different from the traditional ones which emphasize differences between groups and the need to develop culture-specific techniques. Delineates a conceptual model which provides an integrative framework for understanding the role of culture in counseling. Draws on work in transpersonal…

Studied the interactive effects of transference and client insight on session quality, and the relationship between transference and counselor intentions within the context of a single counseling session. When transference was high, client insight was positively related to session quality. Negative transference was related to several counselor…

Reviews the filmed interview with Gloria by Perls (1965) which demonstrated some standard Gestalt therapy techniques and presents examples from film. Identifies discrepancies between Perls's description of Gestalt therapeutic processes and his interview behavior. Makes reflections on the inherent difficulties with the concept of the emerging…

Surveyed 91 counselors to assess frequency of use of self-referent statements (positive and negative self-disclosure and self-involving responses) in individual counseling. Counselors reported using significantly greater frequency of positive versus negative self-reference. Found no significant differences resulting from counselor gender or level…

Uses satire to broach the topic of counseling aspects of how to succeed (at failure) in establishing and maintaining a private practice as a counselor. Thirteen mistakes counselors can make are listed and discussed. (NB)