Results of the present investigation, together with previous data provided by Eberdt (1970) and Jansen, Robb, and Bonk (1972), suggest that clergymen who seek specialized counseling training in secular settings are, as a group, a different breed than nonclergymen who enter such programs. Clergymen also work in a role and framework considerably…

This study compared two sets of ratings made under different experimental conditions with each other and with a predefined criterion of accuracy. The data indicated that informed raters were significantly more accurate in their ratings than noninformed raters and significant discrepancies occurred at the higher scale points of the Accurate Empathy…

The study examined the counsellor's competence in counselling clients with sexual problems. The notion of competence was operationally defined in terms of empathy, anxiety, and sex knowledge. The results demonstrate the need to have specific training in sex counselling incorporated into the counsellor trainee's curriculum. (Author)

Reports results of whether microtraining was more effective than reflective listening in teaching attending behavior skills to introductory counseling students. Found no significant differences between the two techniques; however, reflective listening was viewed as a much simpler procedure. (PC)

The purpose of this study was to: (1) develop and implement training modules designed to change appropriately certain counseling skills among students enrolled in the counseling practicum; (2) assess the effect of the training modules on certain counseling skills of students; and (3) investigate the effects of modular skill training during the…

This research measured the relationship between humor appreciation responses and facilitative abilities of graduate counselor trainees. In this study counselor trainees who were more intelligent, anti-establishment, anxious, flirtatious and introverted were able to communicate at a more facilitative level. Implications and further research are…

The influence of group size and training duration on the development of empathic understanding in beginning counseling procedures students was examined. Nine-five master's level students grouped into four groups representing long and short duration, large and small size, were evaluated on the basis of taped counseling sessions. A team of expert…

This study reexamines the relationship between the Sixteen-Personality Factor (16-PF) Questionnaire and counselor performance ratings. Results of this study and the reanalysis of previous studies indicate that it would not be advisable at this time for counselor educators to identify or predict effective counselors on the basis of the 16-PF.…

Neighborhood Youth Corps participants (N=250) experienced group counseling over a 10-week period. Approximately half of the groups were conducted by five counselors who were supervised by a practicum instructor, and the remainder of the groups were led by unsupervised counselors. The participants in the supervised counseling groups were more…

Focuses on the immediate effects of group training and participation for inservice counselors and on the effects after one year. Subjects were 15 inservice counselors. The POI was used to assess personal growth. Results indicate that participating counselors maintained their positive POI gains one year later. (Author/HMV)

This study was conducted to consider the relationship between dogmatism and facilitative communication in counselor trainees. Level of facilitative communication was measured by the Gross Rating of Facilitative Interpersonal Functioning scale. Degree of dogmatism was determined by the opinion scale. Found significant negative correlation between…

The final leaving examination grades were significantly correlated with some personality characteristics of the male counselors. They were not significantly related, however, to any female personality variable or any other criterion rating for male or female students. (Author)

This study investigated relationship of a graduate course in group counseling, number of hours completed in counselor education, and sex to the empathic understanding of trainees. The level of empathic understanding of the higher group was less than the level considered to be the minimum for effective counseling. (Author)

This exploratory study compared the response patterns of two groups of counselors experienced in crisis intervention. One group (N=5) was trained according to the Rusk model and the other (N=5) in the brief, focal therapy approach. With the exception of explicit empathy, no between-group differences in frequency of intervention were found. (Author)

Ten weeks of assertion training was provided to eight mental hospital paraprofessionals. These trained subjects served as either counselor or counselee in a microcounseling session with eight paraprofessionals who were untrained in assertion training. Assertion-trained counselors were superior to untrained counselors on a set of…