Personality characteristics of effective paraprofessional counselor trainees were compared with those of effective counselor education students using a standardized personality inventory and the Counselor Evaluation Rating Scale. The effective paraprofessionals and the effective counselor education students in the study were remarkably similar in…

This study investigated the effects of two supervisory roles when used within the small group practicum seminar, on counselor trainees' ability to emit understanding, affective, and exploratory responses in their final counseling interviews. Significant differences were observed only in the ability of the trainees to emit understanding responses.…

Peer ratings of counselors in a graduate practicum were explored. The nature and direction of the differences between the subjects ranked in the highest and lowest quarters by their peers suggested valid discriminations between graduate students of both sexes with regard to potential as counselors. (Author)

Differentiates and elaborates on the need, usefulness, and relationship between counseling theory and philosophy. (Author/EK)

Article raises and answers questions about the relationship among constructs of creativity manifested by counselor trainees. The Porter Test of Counselor Attitudes, Consequences test and Alternate Uses test were administered to 27 graduate students in counselor education. Creativity was shown to have influence on the counselor's approach. Data…

Counselor-offered conditions of empathy, nonpossessive warmth, genuineness, and intensity of interpersonal contact were self-evaluated by 44 counselors and compared with supervisors' evaluations of tape recorded sessions. Findings are discussed. (Author)

The hypothesis was confirmed that behavioral counselors who were facilitative, that is, high in their offerings of warmth, empathy, and genuineness would be more effective than nonfacilitative behavioral counselors, that is, low in their offerings of warmth, empathy and genuineness. (Author/CG(

The results showed that in spite of violently different feelings about (or descriptions of) the roles, the subjects were equally influenced by them. This suggests that social attractiveness may not be important when the client's problems require expert opinion and knowledge. (Author/CG(

In light of the spread of unionization to professional fields and rising client rejection of professional rights to unique expertise, the estimate may well be that professionalization is no longer the preferred route to job autonomy, high income, and social status for occupations with knowledge claims. (Author/MB)

Discusses the effectiveness of counseling, the literature of the field, the programs of preparation, and the characteristics of those who enter counseling and guidance. (Author)

Significant differences between the two groups of student counselors were observed on the dimension of chronological age, five of six intellective variables, and five of 11 nonintellective variables. (Author)

Counseling oriented individuals confront their clients in an active, expressive, concrete, and genuine encounter which communicates a strong belief in the client's worth. The counselor focuses on specifics both in terms of content and feeling and avoids abstractions and over generalized and compacted words and phrases. (Author)

The counselor must be as sensitively aware of his own needs and psychological deficits as he strives to be of these needs in his counselees. As a professional person, the counselor must keep himself responsive to even subtle signs of fatigue. He needs to be able to focus on areas of depletion, to analyze the complexities surrounding his self…