Investigated effects of enhanced informed consent condition on attitudes of female clients (n=60) toward a counselor, counseling situation, and decision making in a pro-life pregnancy center. Results suggest enhanced consent did not lead to increased or decreased decisions to abort nor to differential attitudes toward counselor or setting.…

Examines several basic hypnotherapeutic techniques (rapport building, problem assessment, resistance management, and behavior change) based on Milton H. Erickson's hypnotherapeutic principles that can be translated into the general framework of counseling. (Author/CM)

Examines issues and needs of individuals who are physically disabled and have substance abuse problems. Explores reasons for high rate of substance abuse among individuals who are physically disabled. Addresses treatment considerations for such individuals, including individual, family, and educational counseling. Examines prevention issues and…

Examined relationship, if any, between counseling outcomes and the topical focus in career counseling, using 22 counselors who saw 46 adult clients at a community-based clinic. Found from counselors' perspective outcomes were better when focus of sessions was relatively more vocational than personal; client satisfaction was predictable only from…

Surveyed 82 clients seeking individual and family counseling from university marriage and family counseling center to ascertain whether change in their problem context had occurred between time appointment was made for counseling and time they come to first session. Results indicated that most clients could identify desirable pretreatment change…

Surveyed 91 counselors to assess frequency of use of self-referent statements (positive and negative self-disclosure and self-involving responses) in individual counseling. Counselors reported using significantly greater frequency of positive versus negative self-reference. Found no significant differences resulting from counselor gender or level…