This qualitative study investigated three novice counselors' experiences and characterizations of therapeutic relationships. Thematic analyses of interviews and diaries revealed six common themes: (a) the centrality of supervision and training experiences to navigating interpersonal experiences with clients; (b) anxiety about counselors' roles in…

This study explores the perceptions of professional counselors who provide avatar-based services in multi-user virtual environments (MUVEs) and their descriptions of those services. Using a virtual micro-ethnographic design, the principal investigator interviewed counselors (N=5) licensed or certified to practice in their geographic location about…

As part of the "face" a university projects to the world, student service staff play a key role in constructing an institution's external identity. Yet, there have been few studies of who are the general staff providing these services, and how they define their role within their institutions. Although there have been several excellent studies…

Describes the Segmented Counseling Interview (SCI), in which counseling is interrupted at intervals to allow counselor and client, each out of hearing range of the other, to communicate to observers their reactions to the preceding counseling interval and their anticipation of the ensuing interval. (Author)

A consistent finding was that across facilitative conditions, the low facilitators generally changed significantly more than the high facilitators, and significantly more so with students than with patients. (Author)

Presents framework for thinking about interactions between client and therapist systems in relation to participants' personal explanatory systems and models of reality. Examines therapist contributions to forming structures, elements of covert interview of therapist performed by client system, model for therapist training, and case presentation…

This study measured the interpersonal needs of the counselor and counselee using the FIRO-B Scale to determine their effect on the subject's reaction to a counseling interview. Each counselor and counselee met with a compatible and an incompatible subject within the counterbalanced research designed. The general hypothesis for the study was that…

Family therapists presenting a regional marriage and family therapy conference were interviewed about ethnicity issues in therapy. Questions focused on ethnicity in the therapy process; ethnicity issues for the therapist and the client; strategies when ethnicity is an issue; and recommendations for ethnicity training. Qualitative analysis revealed…

Assuming that counseling is an interlocking system of mutual influence and that the effect of various counselor/client responses on the behavior of the other is probabilistic, then it becomes important to understand what categories of factors contribute to the probabilistic tendencies of counselor and client to respond in different ways. One…

Presents an interventive, consultative method designed to elicit and promote resource-based language between client families and therapists. Through reflective dialogue participants were encouraged to consider different views and beliefs about themselves, each other, and their process together. Use of this process added heightened awareness and…

This study explored the philosophical issues hindering the linkage of substance abuse and domestic violence treatment. Results suggest that counselors tend to use treatment models that could not concurrently assign responsibility and address either present or past victimization. (Author)

Communication skills awareness and training are essential for any human relations endeavor. Operating on the premise that everyone can learn effective communication skills, the goal of this book is to provide a foundation for persons to develop the human relations skills they need to build effective helping relationships. Effective communication…

An analysis of the use of language in a social service context using microethnographic research techniques is described. The study examined a single interaction between a welfare caseworker and a client as they address the client's employment and educational options. The interaction was videotaped and a segment of just over a minute was analyzed…

Parental response to being informed of their young child's mental handicap was examined through interviews with 50 parents. Results indicated that the majority of parents were told of the handicap in a generally positive manner, after minimal contact with the physician, and during the child's first month of life. (Author/JDD)

This report provides an overview of career counseling in vocational rehabilitation programming for individuals with severe psychiatric disabilities. It begins by reviewing the five basic premises for vocational counseling and programming and then discusses how adaptations to the traditional practice of career and vocational counseling might be…