Do counselor educators identify with particular counseling theories, and, if so, with which ones most frequently? Sampled counselor educators (N=596) described their theoretical orientations in their own words, revealing tremendous variety. Four categories emerged as the most frequent responses: eclectic, client-centered, humanistic, and…

This study was concerned with trends related to client behavior, and counseling efficacy with respect to religious sentiment. A number of significant relationships were found between counseling efficacy and orthodox religiousity. Hypothesized trends and correlates of client in counseling behaviors and religious orthodoxy were not supported by the…

Two alternative explanations for early defection of female counseling clients were tested. Greater satisfaction with nondirective interviewing by females more likely to defect was found, which favored the catharsis alternative. (Author)

Discusses results of two studies conducted to investigate communications between friends, since it is often stated that psychotherapy is a type of friendship. Findings showed that empathic responses were infrequent between friends trying to be helpful, though such responses constituted a majority of statements of model Rogerian therapists.…

Participants (12 employment counselors and 10 counselor supervisors) attending a three-week workshop on enhancing relationship skills, evaluated the Rogers, Perls, Ellis film, Three Approaches to Psychotherapy, on 15 skills. Results indicate there was general agreement between the counselors and the supervisors when judging levels of therapist…

Summarized numerous different projects which investigated assumptions made by Carol Rogers about the necessary and sufficient conditions for significant positive change in person-to-person contact. Findings agree with Rogers' about the importance of empathy, genuineness, and respect. Presented at the Thirtieth Congress of Deutsch Gesell Schaft for…

This study sought to assess preferences for counseling response styles. Although both clients and nonclients most frequently select adjectives describing "nurturant" counselors, they have no differential preferences for response styles when these are demonstrated in scripted interactions. Neither group preferred empathic responses to other…

The effects of counselor verbal behavior (reflections, probes, and restatements) and counselor nonverbal behavior (presence or absence of nodding and smiling) upon 48 subjects was examined. Probes resulted in more discussion of feelings than did either reflections or restatements. Nonverbal behavior did not effect discussion of feelings. (Author)

This study examines differences in the perceptions of 200 college students toward Carkhuff-defined facilitative conditions as a treatment, and a specific behavioral treatment, assertive training. Ratings indicated the behavioral-treatment counselor was seen as more expert and appealing than the facilitative-conditions counselor. (Author)

Two studies are described in which Asian Americans rated a counselor's performance in a simulated counseling session with an Asian American student. The counselor was rated as more credible and approachable when employing a directive counseling approach than when using a nondirective counseling approach. (Author/MFD)

This study employed training in facilitative self-responding as a means of helping clients alter what they say to themselves. The training was compared to empathy-based individual counseling. Results using eight measures identified significant differences in favor of the trained group for six of the eight variables. (Author)

This study explores counseling preferences of college students and their relationship to students' sex, major, and year in school. A questionnaire (Direction-Unconscious Motivation Scale) designed to assess attitudes toward psychoanalytic, behavioral therapy and client-centered counseling approaches was given to 683 volunteers who were students at…

This paper reports a quasi-experimental study which was designed and conducted to learn more about the impact of selected consultant interactional behaviors on consultee satisfaction with consultation. Specifically, the study focused on the effects of consultant effort to foster a collaborative consultative relationship. Consultant efforts were…

The results indicate that (a) the more complex counselors expressed a significantly higher level of empathy, and (b) the level of empathy manifested is conditioned by a significant interaction effect between type of counselor and client. (Author)