This study applies the A-B scale to psychotherapists and tests the hypotheses that A's describe themselves as more feminine and less masculine than B's. A's, purportedly more effective with schizophrenics, tend to dislike mechanical-technical activities, while B's, more effective with neurotics, like them. Results show no association between A-B…

This study explores interrelationships among ratings by conversational partners and independent observers of empathy, warmth, and genuineness, and relates these ratings to partners' dialogue patterns. The results support the hypothesis that one of the parameters of temporal congruence, switching pauses, relates significantly to ratings of warmth…

The clients' evaluations were unrelated to their therapists' evaluations, but they were highly related to the evaluations made by independent judges. Further analyses suggested that the disagreements between clients and therapists stemmed from the therapists' inaccuracy in perceiving the clients' problem and the therapists' tendency to…

Counselors, psychotherapists, and counselor educators completed a modified repertory test. Contrary to previous findings, presumed positive and negative affect role constructs of significant others did not produce significant differences. The role constructs--boss and person you'd like to help--previously presumed to be negative affect role…

The credibility of personal information selected by members of small groups to describe each other's characteristics and delivered to the members by the group leader without naming the source was studied. Positive feedback was rated by recipients as more credible, desirable, and as having more impact than negative feedback. (Author)

Argues that the key question in psychotherapy and rehabilitation is not can we change a person's personality, but rather what behaviors can and should; and how do we maintain the behavior that we have changed. Several behavior innovation programs are examined. (Author/JM)

This paper is an attempt to show the difference in the course of treatment of two successive groups of university students which functioned significantly differently in the manner and degree to which they examined defenses and manifested transference problems. (Author)

Significant differences were found between touched and nontouched clients for depth of self-exploration: clients who were touched engaged in more self exploration than clients who were not touched. No significant differences were found between touch and no-touch groups on the measures of perception of relationship. There were no significant…

The A-B therapist-type scale was administered to male college students and volunteers were chosen from the scale extremes. The results suggested that A's as a group were more variable in their postural and gestural behavior than were B's. (Author)

Points out that the arthritic child needs a flexible approach by the occupational therapist to help him cope with a chronic illness characterized by remissions and exacerbations of pain and changing levels of physical function as he strives to master developmental tasks in school and social activities. (Author)

Paper presented at the Brazilian Meeting on Child Neuropsychiatry (1st, Guaruja, Sao Paulo, August, 1968). (JM)