Research with the A-B therapist type'' variable has included many analogue studies in which A and B undergraduates have been assumed to be personologically similar to A and B professionals. The present study cross-validated the personality correlates of A-B status across five new samples. (Author)

The inference is drawn from these findings that the aide group possessed more desirable attributes than the control group for the role of nonprofessional mental health worker. (Author)

This replicated comparison of interviewer behavior and efficacy of complete novices and experienced professionals shows no significant differences between the two groups on genuineness and warmth, with one questionable difference in favor of the professionals on empathy. The implications of these findings for interviewer status are considered.…

This demonstration of enduring positive consequences lends further credence to the view that nonprofessionals, under appropriate conditions of recruitment, training, and supervision, have much to offer in human service helping activities. (Author)

The application of the triadic model of therapeutic intervention was tested within a community-based program that trained indigenous nonprofessionals as behavior change agents to 42 youngsters, aged 11-17. These adult buddies attempted to influence their youngsters through their relationship and through the contingent use of social and material…

Two groups of nonprofessional trainees received specific job-related training in behavioral principles and procedures of both milieu and social-learning treatment programs for chronic mental patients. Each group received different learning approaches. Attitudinal changes are associated with behavior-specific training and differential patterns of…

Factor analysis of a test battery for nonprofessional mental health workers is reported. The battery measured cultural interests, attitudes toward job attributes, extraversion, helping person qualities, social class, and interest in science. When nonprofessional child aids were compared with nonprofessional controls, aids showed stronger cultural…

Studied frequency of occurrence of four different types of physical contact (touching, holding hands, sitting-on-lap, and hugging) in school-based helping interactions between nonprofessional child aides and young referred children. Frequency of contact behaviors did not relate either to adjustment status at referral or to intervention outcomes.…

It was hypothesized that structured training would cause an increase in the ability to discriminate helpful counseling conditions and a shift toward the internality dimension of locus of control. Results indicate that changes in counseling skill and personality orientation may be effected in very brief but structured training programs. (Author/PC)