Case service expenditures for psychological evaluation and counseling and for training were organized into three differential service patterns. The Randomized Block Design was employed as the research strategy to investigate the effects of these service patterns on client outcome. Interclient variability was significantly diminished by client…

This research project ascertained personality profiles of rehabilitation clients. Three personality inventories were used. Results indicated state agency rehabilitation clients are characterized by differential patterns of personality characteristics. The taxonomic procedure used was profile analysis, and data was based on self-report. (NG)

A recent article in this journal (Bolton 1973) provided an example of some of the misperceptions and strong emotions which still cloud the issue of human relations training for rehabilitation counselors. The present article first responds to some of these misperceptions and then initiates some additional directions for rehabilitation counseling.…

Since the goal of helping the client make wise decisions is at the core of counseling, it is suggested that existentialism as a state of mind may give the contemporary counselor an outlook most conducive to achieving that goal. The entire role of choice must be dealt with by the counselor in light of the reality of current events. (Author)

The purpose of this study was to determine how rehabilitation counselors would process materials of a seemingly controversial nature in a referral recommendation. Results indicate that counselors in rehabilitation settings are biased in making referral recommendations. Implications for the profession are discussed. (Author)

Argues that the major ways to increase rehabilitation counselor effectiveness with the severely disabled are to provide counselors with high level communication skills, reduce their own anxieties about working with the severely disabled, reinforce counselor action activities for the client as an addition to communication skills. A practicum…

The Gestalt techniques of staying in the present, focusing on self-awareness, using fantasy, and experimenting with opposites can facilitate working with critical rehabilitation problems. Adapting the Gestalt approach would provide trained counselors with the opportunity to add to their helping repertoire. (Author)

This article describes a method that may be used in assisting counselor trainees in assessing and developing their counseling styles. The emphasis is away from indoctrination toward any one approach to counseling and toward facilitating the trainees' achievement of their own goals. (Author)

This article reports major conclusions and implications of a national field study of trained and experienced psychotherapists. The study suggests psychotherapy effectiveness is generally minimal. These conclusions are primarily different from and not as positive as a similar but separate study of rehabilitation counselors and their clients.…

This article presents a discussion of the counseling process as it relates to the cancer client. Particular attention is given to total rehabilitation process, the interrelationship between personal-adjustment counseling and readjustment to roles. (Author)

A cluster analysis of 282 rehabitation-need profiles of alcoholic clients resulted in extraction of seven distinct groups. Each group was described in terms of its level of psychological-need satisfaction related to the seven scales of the Human Service Scale. Various problems of adjustment for each group were discussed. (Author)

Clients (N=103) completed the Human Service Scale and were evaluated by counselors by using the Client Outcome Measure. Analyses led to the conclusion that client and counselor perspectives tend to converge at the theoretical level. A critique of this article is presented by English. (Author)

This article specifies several dimensions of coordination and advocacy and examines the relationship between client use of counselors functioning in these two roles and the nature and degree of subsequent improvement in several areas of client functioning. (Author)

The social psychological environment of hospitals or rehabilitation centers is described and suggestions are offered for research that would help to increase the understanding of the staff toward the patient. (Author)

The preferences of sixth grade and tenth grade students for disabled vs nondisabled school counselors was assessed through a person perception instrument. The disabled counselor was preferred to the nondisabled counselor, regardless of the sex of the counselor or the sex and grade level of the student. (Author)