Psychological research has shown the detrimental effects that overt heterosexism have on lesbian, gay, bisexual, and queer (LGBQ) clients and on the psychotherapeutic relationship. However, the effects of subtle forms of discrimination, specifically sexual orientation microaggressions, have on LGBQ clients and the therapeutic relationship have not…

Across several decades the effects of matching clients with therapists of the same race/ethnicity have been explored using a variety of approaches. We conducted a meta-analysis of 3 variables frequently used in research on racial/ethnic matching: individuals' preferences for a therapist of their own race/ethnicity, clients' perceptions of…

Qualitative analyses of 2 clients' psychotherapies (client centered and process-experiential) investigated the developmental progression from formulating a problem to achieving an understanding of it. The results elaborated one segment in the 8-stage Assimilation of Problematic Experiences Sequence (APES), through which problematic parts of a…

The results failed to support the hypothesis that counselors dressed in a tie and sport jacket tend to elicit higher disclosure and attractiveness scores than do counselors dressed more casually. (Author)

Following participation in client role induction exercises, subjects predicted their own depth of self-disclosure and personal comfort level in an interview with a psychologiest. The responses of subjects to topics selected for the interview indicated that expected self-disclosure output was inversely related to the interpersonal risk value of…

The results of this study indicated that a person's response to risk taking in self disclosure is essential in the development of that trust. (Author)

The results suggested that therapists relatively free of emotional conflict, yet willing to acknowledge internal discomfort when it is present, are better able to understand, accept, and respond nondefensively to their patients. (Author)

Results indicated that the client sees the therapist as being capable of healthier functioning than himself, and that the therapist sees himself as functioning more effectively than the client. (Author)

The results of this study suggest that the kind of counter-transference established in early interviews may be important to the out-come of psychotherapy. The successful therapists in these interviews were more dominant than their unsuccessful counterparts. (Author)

The results of this study provide evidence that counselors become involved in the defensive maneuvers of clients when objective self discrepant information is presented. (Author)

The major result of the study is that the subjects' self experiencing increased significantly during the focusing periods even though the experimenter's empathy, warmth, and genuineness remained low. (Author)

The results of the study question the widsom of using testimonials by counselors as support for the positive effects of new recording methods and for the absence of adverse effects. (Author)

This study dealt with the nature of experimental control and the types and consequences of its errors or compromises in executing an experimental design for research on counseling or therapy. (Author)

The question of the relative contribution of verbal and nonverbal behaviors to the judged level of empathy was examined. Results showed that the nonverbal effects accounted for twice the variability as compared to verbal message. (Author)

It was concluded that a cultural consensus exists in perception of trustworthiness and that it is more dependent upon nonverbal rather than verbal behavior of the interviewer. (Author)