Each utterance of a psychotherapy session conducted by Carl Rogers was transcribed on a separate card. Fifteen undergraduate subjects reconstituted client-therapist sequences more accurately than therapist-client sequences. (Author)

Encounters, defined as contacts between a social worker and client that have not been regularly scheduled, represent an alternative to the classic casework method. Presents a consumer-oriented strategy based on clinical experience in a public community mental health center in a large urban area. (Author)

Given the conditions of choice, time, and distance, trainees' interview responses (N=54) reflected neither the influence of their philosophy of human nature nor the effects of client type. These findings are contrary to expectations. (Author)

Human communication is a complex process. For individuals from different regional, ethnic, or racial backgrounds, communication may be difficult. Focuses on some common ways individuals fail to communicate clearly and the significance of this failure for social work practice. (Author)

A survey of the death attitudes and experiences of 54 rehabilitation counselors indicated their personal beliefs could potentially influence service to disabled people, particularly in the areas of terminal illness and suicide. To balance such influence, continued training of counselors and research efforts concerning this problem are recommended.…

Focus is on common forms of group resistance and ways of dealing with group resistance and ways of dealing with group resistance. When resistance is expected as a part of the therapeutic process, the counselor has less ego involvement in the resistance and is less likely to respond with countertransference. (Author)

Examines some of the considerations that a counselor must face when counseling a homosexual client. (HMV)

This paper reflects the thoughts, observations and clinical experiences of the authors and two dozen of their colleagues in treating people involved in an assortment of non-marital sexual relationships. Presented at the American Association of Marriage and Family Counselors Conference, Hartford, Connecticut, May 21-23, 1976. (Author)

Counselors will have the opportunity to share the experience of death with their counselees. If counselors are able to enter deeply into the experience of death with another person, they will find the experience one of the most significant and rewarding of their counseling career. (Author)

The authors present seven specific criteria for judging effective goal setting in counseling. These are described as goals which have been mutually agreed upon, promote achievement, eliminate self-defeating behaviors, and are success-oriented, quantifiable, behavioral, and understandable by the client. (Author/HLM)

Subjects (N = 81) were tested, divided into high-, medium-, and low-level thinkers, and randomly assigned as clients to behavior counseling or to a control interview. Results for the most part indicated that level of cognitive functioning does not influence a client's reaction to counseling. (Author)

During divorce, women feel dependent and confused. Whether intended or not, the direction of a woman's growth (indeed, whether or not there is any) will reflect the counselor's belief in what is possible and appropriate for women. (Author)

Family treatment can be staged in a way that permits the family to deal with their anxiety about treatment and plan changes in the problem solving mechanism of the family system. (Author)

This study ascertained whether significant differences in levels of the counselor offered necessary and sufficient conditions of client-centered counseling can occur when the one-to-one relationship is ethnically different compared with the counseling relationship which counselor and client are of the same ethnic identify. Race was not an…

Because feelings workers experience as part of counter-transference may affect attitudes toward clients and their performance of casework, such feelings are the concern of supervisors and workers. An exercise which has been used successfully in the exploration by worker and supervisor of feelings that are nontherapeutic is presented. (Author)