The results indicate that more cooperative behavior is induced in the listener when invariant warmth is expressed, while more cooperative behavior is induced in the actor when invariant anger or anger followed by warmth is expressed. (Author)

The author suggests that to be accountable counselors need not only restrict themselves to precise observations of behavioral change. Subjective reality can also be a valid measure of a counselor's effectiveness. (Author)

This study investigated the effects of 15 second client response latencies upon the speech and silence behavior of four experimentally naive counselors in advanced training. The results indicate that a coached client was able to effect change unobtrusively in the speech and silence behavior of counselors. (Author)

Forty female subjects were selected and assigned to four treatment groups matched for past and anticipated disclosure rate. Treatments differed only in the length of the interviewer's remarks on 20 topics. A significant positive relationship was found between the length of time the experimenter spoke and the duration of the subjects' utterances.…

Each of six patients saw each of four therapists twice. Each of four variables was scored separately for patient and therapist for each interview. Results indicate that therapist behaviors were not the result of a trait," of a given tendency to be empathic, or a consistently applied therapeutic technique, but rather were very substantially…

This research has opened a number of avenues of inquiry that could be profitably pursued in exploring the relevance of empathy, warmth, and genuineness in school counseling situations. (Author)

Therapists were compared for intrasession initiative behavior with a standard female client as well as with nonstandard female clients. No differences were found between male and female therapists on this behavior dimension. (Author)

This paper presents a concept of what a counselor is: a listener; a sensitive, tuned, instrument, a human being, risking oneself again and again in human encounters in which positive gain for the counselee must still reflect the personal dispositions of his own being. (KJ)

Study results show a substantial increase on accurate empathy but no overall gains on nonpossessive warmth, with some decrease among those counselors initially displaying high levels of warmth. (Author/CJ)

Examined model of therapeutic control, which posited that control indices can be described by 3 independent dimensions, through audio-recorded meetings of 26 clients. Rated audiotapes with 5 different control-coding schemes, and aggregated resulting sequential ratings with 3 different methods, yielding 15 different behavioral-control indices.…

Empathy and stereotype accuracy of rehabilitation counselors attempting to preduct client responses on a problem inventory were studied. Results showed that all subject groups, pre-counselor through experienced counselor, with and without master's degrees, were able to make empathic and stereotype predictions at a level significantly better than…

The Ethical Judgment Scale was used to identify and categorize the ethical-professional posture of community college counselors when dealing with specific problem cases. The dimensions of ethical and legal problems confronting counselors were also investigated. (Author)

Counseling oriented individuals confront their clients in an active, expressive, concrete, and genuine encounter which communicates a strong belief in the client's worth. The counselor focuses on specifics both in terms of content and feeling and avoids abstractions and over generalized and compacted words and phrases. (Author)

Data from this study were analyzed and showed that (a) attending behavior can be taught via the use of the materials and procedures that have been developed; and (b) students rated counselors trainined in attending behavior more positively than they rated counselors who did not receive such training. It seems that the concept of attending is an…

Attempt to account for lack of relationship between "Accurate Empathy (AE) scale and subjective empathic perceptions, results in questioning of the construct validity of the AE scale. (Author/CJ)