This article explores the level of congruence that six different personality types feel for the social environment of counseling, and, using a hexagonal model, calculates the expected effects of this variable upon interaction. The article illustrates the special nature of the male personality, and suggests alterations of present counseling…

Possible discrepancies between client and counselor assessment of clients' problems were examined. Attribution theory suggests that counselors perceive clients' problems to lie with the clients as persons, whereas clients perceive their problems to be a result of situational pressures. Both groups perceived client problems as relatively personal.…

This study reexamined the effects of client sex and counselor sex on self-disclosure in a controlled analogue situation using a measure of self-disclosure that would reflect the affective dimension. A secondary aim was to determine if subject evaluation of the interviews would parallel self-disclosure results. An equal number (40) of male and…

The purpose of this study was to determine the frequency of occurrence of counseling errors as perceived by 60 former counseling service clients, and to see whether those errors are associated with counselor levels of training and experience. Results indicate they are related to level of training. (Author)

The authors examined the longitudinal relationship of patient-rated perfectionism, clinician-rated depression, and observer-rated therapeutic alliance using the latent difference score (LDS) analytic framework. Outpatients involved in the Treatment for Depression Collaborative Research Program completed measures of perfectionism and depression at…

A longitudinal study of a class of university undergraduates showed students who had more counseling sessions during their four-university years were indistinguishable on tests given at entrance from those with fewer sessions. However, students with personal problems had more sessions and showed tested differences from students with…