This article describes the effects of self-instruction training (SIT) in microcounseling skills compared to those of a traditional trainer-guided program (TT) in a pretest-posttest comparison group design. A sample of 193 undergraduate psychology students participated in this study: 97 students followed SIT and 96 students followed TT. We used…

This study attempted to measure the generalization of the counseling skills learned via the microcounseling paradigm to the actual counseling setting. Results indicated that experimental subjects evidence greater learning and retention of skills in reflection of feeling and summarization of feeling. (Author)

"Micro-counseling" is a video method of training counselors in basic skills of counseling within a short period of time. This research studies the effects of micro-counseling training procedures upon three groups of beginning counselors. These three different skills, attending behavior, reflection of feeling, and summarization of…

A microcounseling approach was used to conduct a study of an experimental training program. The objective was to train naive college students, who were interested in counseling, to assess clients' attitudes toward guidance tests. A correlation of .797 was obtained between clients' ratings of attitudes toward tests and the trainees' ratings of…

Video in Psychotherapy and Therapist Training is a basic introduction and reference list to the field of videotherapy. The video medium, an immediate feedback recording device of sound and sight, is fast becoming a widely used tool in psychotherapy and therapist training. This reference source contains an introduction to the topic, a brief…

The purpose of this study was to compare the effectiveness of three instructional approaches to an established and conceptually related approach, microcounseling. The subjects were thirty-two graduate counseling students, randomly assigned to four treatment groups. These were microcounseling, modified microcounseling, self-modeling and verbal…

The development and refinement of the Preservation, Accommodation, and Repatterning model (PAR) took place over a 10-year period. This paper presents a discussion of the evolution of PAR. The paper describes the observations and the line of empirical research findings that guided conceptualization and evaluation of the model. The model was…

This article suggests that a major role for the practicing clinician is the teaching of his helping skills to those whom he would serve. Specifically, the paper describes microcounseling, a videobased system of teaching counseling or psychotherapeutic skills to counselors, clinical psychologists, and medical students. In addition, the method has…

The suggestions offered in this manual illustrate some aspects of videotape counseling, some apportunities and problems in counseling teachers, and some typical problems involving classroom teaching, cooperating teachers, supervisors, etc. The manual is designed mainly for counseling psychologists and educational psychologists who work with…

Recent research has produced ambiguous results as to whether traditional training in multicultural development, awareness, knowledge, and skills is necessary to produce counseling competence. To explore this question, a study of multicultural counseling competence prior to multicultural counseling training is reported here. For the study, a…

Empathy has been defined as the single most important dimension in establishing a counseling relationship. This paper describes a study that compares counselor trainees' and a general population of African American males' empathy ratings of racially mixed videotaped counseling sessions. The report addresses the following questions: "Do…

The purpose of this study was to determine whether or not short-term training (60 hours) could produce paraprofessional counselors, competent in counseling skills, who would work effectively in their home-community on drug related problems. Three distinct areas of concern were evaluated: the effect of the program on the trainees with regard to…

These materials for a workshop, designed to help health occupations education teachers develop the interpersonal skills necessary to improve their teaching, consist of two conference reports, a minilecture, and a workshop exercise. The first report, which is entitled "Interaction Analysis for Health Occupations Education Teachers,"…

This outline of instruction and student guide for a postsecondary level course for instructors is one of a number of military-developed curriculum packages selected for adaptation to instruction and curriculum development in a civilian setting. The course is designed to provide the neccesary information that the student will need in planning and…