Recorded interview results were rated using the Hill Interaction Matrix. The findings indicated that while A and B counselors generated the same type of verbal interview content, B clients produced interviews containing more speculative, confrontive, challenging, and personally thought provoking statements than A clients. These results support the…

Assuming that counseling is an interlocking system of mutual influence and that the effect of various counselor/client responses on the behavior of the other is probabilistic, then it becomes important to understand what categories of factors contribute to the probabilistic tendencies of counselor and client to respond in different ways. One…

Studied child psychotherapy by analyzing therapists' verbal behaviors with two child clients. According to the research expectations, high levels of interrater reliabilities for the Carkhuff scales and relatively high agreement levels for Hill's system were found. Overall verbal response behavior of each therapist was summarized best through…