This study, based on Strong's (1968) model of therapy as social influence, focused on the relationship between clients' judgments of therapists' characteristics and the outcomes of their treatment for generalized anxiety. Thirty subjects and 15 therapists met in 12 individual therapy sessions using Progressive Relaxation Training combined with…

This guide was designed to assist school administrators, teachers, counselors, parents and others who are interested in developing guidance programs which meet the needs of young adolescents in Oregon. Practices, procedures, and forms that school districts have found to be most useful in implementing a coordinated guidance and counseling program…

This booklet provides information about the Juvenile Counselor Examination developed as part of the evaluation procedures for juvenile counselor candidates in the Standards and Training for Corrections program in California. The four sections of the booklet (1) review the nature and purpose of cutoff scores in general; (2) recommend and justify a…

Despite the efforts of counselor educators, female graduate psychology trainees still tend to receive more negative ratings than male trainees. To study this observation, 21 graduate students were evaluated by male and female supervisors. Input process and outcome variables were analyzed. The data showed that young women psychologists worked…

The Counselor Rating Form (CRF) and Counseling Evaluation Inventory (CEI) were used in an applied setting to evaluate counselor interns. A sample of 17 counselor trainees conducted two interviews with two internship. After each interview, the trainees rated themselves on the CRF and the clients rated the trainees on both the CRF and CEI.…

Intended for the training and use of state divisions of vocational rehabilitation (DVR) line supervisors, a "Rehabilitation Task Performance Evaluation Scale" is included along with instructions for its administration and uses. The Scale, constructed from an inventory of 294 rehabilitation job tasks, is used for periodic evaluations of…

The purposes of this paper are: to identify specifically the criticisms of school counseling; to analyze what accounts for these criticisms; to indicate how school counseling should and is responding to its critics; and to look at where school counseling is headed. Through a review and analysis of the conceptual and empirical literature dealing…

The increasing demand for accountability in education provides the framework for studying service delivery by school counselors. A brief theoretical discussion concluded that significant others' perceptions of self are effective stimuli to self-change. The project reported in this paper has two primary objectives: (1) to provide student feedback…

This study investigated the relationship between the professional orientation of the counselor and his attitudes toward the following responsibilities: (1) eligibility determination, and (2) employment placement. Subjects were 279 counselors employed in state rehabilitation agency offices. Significant relationships were found between…

The chief interest of this study was the relationship between two predictor variables (counselor-student ratio and visiting the counselor) on the one hand and criteria of counseling effectiveness on the other. Other, possibly significant, control variables are described, most notably general academic aptitude. The data was collected primarily by…

In order to investigate counselor effectiveness in urban secondary schools, guidance personnel developed a ninth grade and a twelfth grade Counseling Accountability Questionnaire. Data collected were processed for city-wide and individual school results. Items dealing with help received and the reaction of students to their relationship with…

Examined therapist characteristics and behaviors related to enhancement of cohesiveness in psychoeducational group treatment for depression. Assessed therapist and client variables pretreatment, posttreatment, and one month follow-up. Found no significant differences, though group leaders with an internal locus of control, an indirect style of…

College counseling needs to generate constructive alternatives. Analysis of the prevalent orientation suggests that it uses "person-blame" problem definitions, leading to characteristic counseling practices, self-perpetuating counselor behavior and uncritical research. A balanced person-situation problem definition orientation is suggested and…

Studied how therapists (N=45) evaluate their performance in relation to burnout. Therapists responded to questionnaires, and 15 subjects were interviewed. Studied responses through content analysis. Results indicated a narrow perspective for self-evaluation focusing on activities within the employing agency and counselor-client relationships.…

Investigated client self-disclosure and client perception of counselors. Subjects rated counselors on intelligence and empathy, and while role-playing clients in therapy. Clients disclosed more to male counselors when counselors were high in status or attractiveness. Suggests the effect of counselor gender depends on an interaction with other…