This article analyses qualitative data gathered from a survey of career practitioners on the issue of career image (n = 355, 75% female, 89% white and 78% from the UK). Findings reveal three key themes which represent how career image relates to practitioners' values and beliefs, how practitioners make decisions about whether to address the topic…

The present investigation explores the impact of counselor self-disclosure of sexual orientation on self-identified heterosexuals. Two hundred and thirty-eight psychology undergraduate students read a short description of a counselor and one of eight versions of a counseling transcript. Transcripts were identical with the exception of the gender…

Examined the influence of counselor conceptual level (CL), client message complexity, and client disability status on counselor perceptions of client attractiveness. Results indicated participant preference for a low CL message regardless of participant CL or client disability status. No other main or interaction effects were found. (Author/BL)

Investigated the effects of positive and negative counselor disclosure using typescripts of hypothetical counseling interviews. Results indicated impact of condition was mixed, with each having some desirable effects. (PAS)

Study examines extent to which client sex and presenting problem are related to sex of counselor to whom client is referred for individual counseling. Results suggest that sex is a salient factor in the assignment of clients to counselors. (Author)

High-facilitative counselors were perceived more positively than were low-facilitative counselors. The data suggest a relationship between Strong's and Carkhuff's models for counseling. The capacity of the Counselor Rating Form to differentiate both between and within counselors was also supported. (Author)

The therapist with similar attitudes was seen as more qualified, higher in interpersonal attraction, and more likeable. Subjects were more willing to recommend or seek therapy from these therapists. Significant interaction indicated that male subjects were more affected by the degree of attitude similarity. (Author)

College students (N=217) rated counselor characteristics after viewing a simulated counseling session ending with the counselor summarizing the session, disclosing a past personal problem, disclosing a present personal problem, engaging in self-involving statements, or offering dynamic interpretations. Self-disclosure and self-involving statements…

Interaction of Personal Involvement and Actual Outcome was not confirmed. Subjects attributed greater causality to the therapist's delivery when the actual outcome differed from the expected outcome. Subjects also attributed greater causality to the actor-therapist for a successful outcome. (Author/BEF)

Male and female interviewers who were introduced as expert or nonexpert met individually with undergraduates. Male experts were rated lower in social attractiveness; however, introductions did not affect either perceived expertness or trustworthiness. Reasonably competent therapist behavior may neutralize differential expertness; expertness may…

Examined the precounseling effects of reputational cues on high school students' preferences for counselors and perceptions of the counselor's credibility and interpersonal attractiveness. Students observed videotapes presenting reputational cues with and without a counseling session, or only the counseling session. Reputational cues strongly…

Investigated the relationship of interpersonal attraction and attraction to groups. Students (N=56) participating in growth groups completed the Group Attitude Scale and individual rating scales early, midway, and late in the group. Data indicated an increasing relationship between interpersonal and group attraction throughout the life of the…

Studied the effects of counselor status and weight and client gender on initial perceptions of counselor expertness, attractiveness, and trustworthiness. Student (N=80) response to counselor photographs indicated counselors introduced as having high status were perceived as being more expert and trustworthy. The influence of body weight was…

Clinicians and undergraduates evaluated a client similar or dissimilar to themselves in political radicalism. Results document the presence of diagnostic bias, but only among student subjects is bias a function of similarity. For clinicians, the more radical client is seen as less disturbed. Similarity-attraction relationships were absent in both…

Examines factors contributing to a person's desire to talk to a friend about personal problems. Results suggest that students value genuine, accepting, confrontive friends whom they can trust. In contrast, the expectancies that counselors are directive, expert, tolerant, and trustworthy are higher than those for the friend. (Author)