The purpose of this study was to assess counselee perceptions of counselor interpersonal affectiveness. Low-dogmatic counselors appear to show higher levels of psychological insight during counseling than high-dogmatic counselors. (Author)

An ongoing debate has centered on which school of therapy makes most effective use of the therapeutic relationship. This study divided clinical practitioners into three major theoretical orientations--psychodynamic, behavioristic, and humanistic--based on their own stated preferences. Results showed no significant differences between therapists.…

This study tests the hypothesis that previous ratings of programs in psychology reflect both an experimental psychology and general institutional halo bias. It was found that applied programs in counseling psychology do receive ratings that differ from overall ratings of psychology in general. Programs ranked as strong, good, and adequate are…

Investigated the relationship of the ITPA subtests to measures of academic performance (i.e., the California Achievement Test). Subjects were 137 nine-year old children. Results failed to support the hypothesis that psycholinguistic abilities, except those which contribute to the Grammatic Closure subtest, are related to academic proficiency.…

This study investigates the counseling services offered by small, public, co-educational community/junior colleges in eight southeastern states. It explores the operational aspects and provides demographic data relating to the general characteristics of Counseling Directors. (Author/HMV)

The focus of this study was on college student satisfaction and the perceptions of that satisfaction by academic advisors and the student affairs staff members. Results indicate that student affairs staff more accurately perceive the level of student satisfaction than academic advisors. (Author/HMV)

Part IV of the 'Directory of Programs and Services for the Deaf in the United States' covers research and information programs and services. (LS)

Thirty-two assertive situations that varied in social-interpersonal context were administered to 60 hospitalized psychiatric patients via role playing. Support for a stimulus specific theory of assertive behaviors and implications for assertive training are discussed. (Author)

Sixty graduate students in clinical psychology made diagnostic assessments of one of two staged interviews identical in content but enacted to convey either a middle- or lower-class impression. The results indicate the existence of a class bias and suggest a status differential between psychologists and psychiatrists. (Author)

Subjects were classified into left movers, right movers, and bidirectionals according to the characteristic direction of their eye movements in response to questions. The three groups were compared on their preferential use of defense mechanisms and on the number of psychosomatic complaints. (Author)

Study devised and tested a method for group administration of the Bender-Gestalt Test that would be feasible for screening large groups of beginning school-age children. Results indicate that the group method of presentation can yield results as valid and reliable as the traditional individual method of administration. (Author)

Marital adjustment over the family life cycle is reexamined using data from probability samples of married couples studied in coordinated research projects in three different states--Iowa, Ohio, and Georgia. (Author)

Examines the attitudes of college students towards the role of women in today's society and provides a profile of the hope of student prone to be most sexist. (HMV)

Which are the features marking modern motherhood? The focus of this article is on norms pertaining to the relation between mother and child. (Author)

This study examined the effect urban development, in an area undergoing planned industrialization, would have on sex role differentiation in the family in a non-Western society--Iran. (Author)