Studied the role of therapist acceptance of patient values, patient acceptance of therapist values, and value persuasion on outcome among 13 psychotherapy dyads. A strong relationship was found between the patients' acquisition of their therapists' values and their ratings of improvement. (Author)

Evaluates effect of the counselor's level of anxiety on students taking part in test anxiety desensitization workshops. Results indicate the number of sessions attended by students is inversely related to the counselor's level of anxiety. Implications for counselor screening in desensitization work are mentioned. (Author)

A person's actions are caused by the interaction of external environmental forces and internal personal forces. Attributing actions to one or the other set of forces is a distorted view of cause. In therapy, attributing actions to external forces, particularly past events, relieves the client of guilt and makes sense out of his actions.…

An experimental program for rehabilitating people convicted of driving while intoxicated was studied to determine how personally responsible behavior could be encouraged. The authors attribute the program's success to the egalitarian atmosphere in which staff members dealt with clients. (Author)

More counselors must become aware of the effects of power relationships in counseling and decide when and how to avoid them. (Author)

Female (N = 4) interviewers, two black and two white, portrayed expert or referent role and attempted to influence 32 white subjects to use problemsolving processes and perform career-planning activities. Significant interactions of race and role were obtained such that black-expert and white-referent interviewers were most influential in attitude…

Since this study indicates more positive attitudes toward the use of behavior modification as knowledge about the behavioral approach increase, it would appear to be obvious that some exposure to the approach could provide counselors with an increased range of counseling techniques from which they could select an appropriate approach. (Author)

Content of interviewer self-disclosure regarding procrastination and study behavior as undergraduates was manipulated with all additional parameters of self-disclosure controlled. Results indicated that subjects in the positive disclosure condition expected to study significantly more hours and did study significantly more hours than subjects in…

Examined relative effectiveness of reflection of feeling and probe in eliciting self-referenced affect in a low-structured counseling situation. The sample was composed of 40 female volunteer subjects, randomly assigned to one of four treatment-experimenter groups. Both reflection of feeling and probe significantly increased client production of…

With homosexuals, counseling toward self-acceptance is advisable; counseling toward heterosexual adjustment is feasible only as a second-best choice and should be combined with continued efforts of counseling of the first type. Presented at the Annual Convention of the Association for Advancement of Behavior Therapy, San Francisco, 13 December…

The process of Christian counseling begins where the client is, and the counselor guides the process by a vision of where the client should be, given the counselor's values and the client's needs. The counselor uses techniques and methods he or she deems necessary and appropriate at any given time. (Author)

The cumulative results of the studies of the three verbal interaction styles provide convincing evidence of the reality and potential usefulness of this distinction among counseling orientations of rehabilitation counselors. (Author)

The authors examine the dimensions of effective psychotherapy in an attempt to determine common variables of theoretic models which seem successful. Three such variables are discussed at length--concreteness, intensity and intimacy, and ambiguity. Assuming that one is not born with good therapist skills, one must learn them. Research and its…

This study examined racial experimenter effects in counseling-like interviews employing the verbal operant-conditioning paradigm. The absence of significant differences in the experimenter-subject racial interaction suggests that race, per se, may not be the most important variable in the experimenter-subject (or counselor-client) relationship.…

The author uses a professional case study to recommend that counselors not become engaged in efforts to change persons' sexual orientations when working with homosexuals. This paper was presented at the annual convention of the Association for Advancement of Behavior Therapy, San Francisco, 13 December, 1975. (Author)