Describes investigation of relationship between verbal predicate matching of modality of clients' primary representational system (PRS) and understanding of therapist by assessing participants' objective understanding and subjective understanding. Suggests weak support of enhanced accuracy of objective understanding and greater understanding and…

Most theory and research on power and social influence in counseling and psychotherapy has focused on the power base and power outcome domains of Olson's (1972) framework which viewed power as a generic concept consisting of the three domains of power base, power process, and power outcome. Statistical approaches to the study of power, influence,…

The length of the counseling relationship (number of sessions) was studied in relationship to (1) counselors' understanding of their clients' views of the depth and smoothness of their sessions and (2) clients' perceptions of being understood (regarding their views of their counseling sessions) by their counselors. Participants (17 therapists and…

Haley (1963) described the counseling relationship in terms of the patterns of communicative behavior exchanged by the interactants. To investigate Haley's assertion that successful counseling is characterized by the counselor's control of the definition of the counseling relationship as a complementary relationship in which the counselor is in a…

Presents several of the limitations of the sequential analysis procedure used in the Hill, Carter, and O'Farrell case study (1983), and attempts to correct misconceptions regarding sequential analyses and their application to process research. (LLL)

Examines the training practices of counseling psychology programs with regard to preparing students to deal with sexual feelings toward clients. Also examines the perceived adequacy of this training by practicing graduates of these programs. Results show that, although most programs report addressing this issue, only about half of the graduates…

The similarity between clients' perceptions of their therapists and their parents was studied in terms of relationship qualities. Participants were 62 actual therapy dyads. Results did not support the hypothesis but suggest that therapists' perceptions of transference may reflect perceptions of their clients' nontransferential, or "real…

Social interaction may be construed as a process of mutual and reciprocal interpersonal influence. Counseling and psychotherapy are not different from other types of social interaction in this regard. Counselors influence clients and clients influence counselors. This study investigated the dynamics and patterning of social influence and…

Although there is extensive literature on interpersonal influence in counseling, there are few studies of the relative influence of counselors on clients and clients on counselors. To investigate the convergent validity of three statistical approaches to relative influence in counseling, 57 counseling interviews were analyzed. The three…

The purpose of this study was to reanalyze the national counseling center data set with the goal of exploring the role of process variables in the prediction of clients' probabilities of various categories of counseling outcome. Specifically, the study focused on the contribution (if any) of the counselor-client working alliance to enhancing…

The potential moderating role of self-esteem and ego development on client transference is examined. These are two developmental factors that the literature has suggested might influence people's perceptions of early caretakers and thus of therapists, leading to transference in the therapy situation. Transference was operationalized as (a) the…

Investigated the differential counseling interaction patterns generated by counselors of differing levels of cognitive complexity. Results provided evidence of interactional process differences between counselors of differing levels of cognitive complexity and consistency of interactional response patterns across counseling interviews. (Author)

Therapeutic outcome as a function of a transition from relational incongruence to congruence, and the association of relational congruence and control with qualitative aspects of the therapy relationship and outcome are studied. Therapist/client interactions within and across seven psychotherapy cases are described. Methods of study and results…

Research on communication in counseling has identified/defined counselor communication behaviors which may affect client response and change. To further understand the pattern of interaction between counselor and client, transcripts of four initial interviews by Albert Ellis and two by Carl Rogers were analyzed for the pattern of responding within…

The purpose of the three papers included here is to describe and illustrate three methods of sequential analysis as they were applied to an analysis of an actual counseling interview between Carl Rogers and "Gloria." In "Markov Models in Process Research," Edward J. Heck applies a Markov model to the analysis of the…