The purpose of this study was to examine career conversations between teachers and students in competence-based vocational education in the Netherlands. A total of 32 career conversations were observed and analysed with respect to four elements: content, teacher activities, student activities and relationship. Results showed that career…

Haley (1963) described the counseling relationship in terms of the patterns of communicative behavior exchanged by the interactants. To investigate Haley's assertion that successful counseling is characterized by the counselor's control of the definition of the counseling relationship as a complementary relationship in which the counselor is in a…

The present study investigates the relationship of the temporal characteristics of therapists' verbal behavior to the communication of empathic understanding in psychotherapy. (Author)

One hundred twenty tape recorded psychotherapy sessions representing early, middle, and late interviews with 20 clients were studied. Clients were divided into successful (N-10) and unsuccessful outcome (N-10) groups on the basis of clinicians' ratings of pre- and post-MMPI data. Raters scored the response units of clients and therapists and…

University students (N=48) were individually tested for suggestibility in one of three conditions. Results indicated subjects of higher rated experimenters would demonstrate more suggestibility than subjects of lower rated experimenters. Results did not indicate that subject interaction with lower rated experimenters would elicit less…

Results showed a significant interactive effect of lighting and distance on the communication of empathy. Requests for reprints should be sent to F. Dumont, McGill University, 3700 McTavish Street, Montreal, P.Q., H3A 1Y2. (Author)

This study hypothesizes that information about a counselor has either positive or negative effects on specific facets of the counselor-client relationship. Results support the hypothesis. (Author)

Purpose of this study was to determine the effect of therapists' approach-avoidance responses on the elicitation of mentally retarded client dependent and hostile statements. Results indicated clients did not respond differentially to therapist approach-avoidance behavior in the early counseling session but did respond differentially in the late…

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…

Volunteer clients of both sexes were assigned randomly to one of three male counselors and to one of two treatments. In the nonstandard English condition, the counselor casually and passively introduced four profane words. Counselors who used nonstandard English were judged to be less effective and satisfying. (Author)

Examined the effectiveness of behavioral marital therapy in improving communication and problem solving skills in 29 couples. Couples' problem discussions were videotaped and rated. Results showed that BMT was effective. The interaction patterns of the treated couples resembled patterns exhibited by nondistressed controls. (JAC)

Significant differences were found between touched and nontouched clients for depth of self-exploration: clients who were touched engaged in more self exploration than clients who were not touched. No significant differences were found between touch and no-touch groups on the measures of perception of relationship. There were no significant…

The purpose of this paper is to review and summarize the findings of studies that bear on the effects of race as a counselor-client variable in the counseling relationship. For convenience, the studies have been grouped under two major headings: (1) effects on clients, and (2) effects on counselors. (Author)

Male university students were randomly assigned to one of the following instructional conditions: specific instructions to discuss personal feelings within specified topic areas, general instructions, or no instructions. Half of the subjects also listened to a model discussing his feelings. All subjects then participated in a brief monologue,…

Periods of silence in counseling groups may be productive or nonproductive for individual members. Specific constructive counselor behaviors are presented for dealing with silence in counseling groups. (Author)