Discusses inadequacies of traditional white-oriented psychotherapeutic programs, and reports on success achieved with an all-black girl clientele in a group home staffed completely by blacks. (Author)

The contention that traditional psychodynamic psychotherapy persists in society because it is an effective agent of social control rather than a help to people with problems is examined and refuted. (Author)

The article briefly describes the principal values in Gestalt Therapy and outlines some of the practices commonly employed in Gestalt work. Implications for counsellors are suggested--both as a mode of counsellor training and as an approach to be used by counsellors. (Author)

This study examines the relationship of race- ethnicity and social class to attitudes toward help seeking, race of therapist, self-disclosure, and self reported treatment outcomes. Findings indicate race alone was not related to attitudes toward psychotherapy, but social class was. (Author)

Results demonstrated that self-revealing therapists were judged as more friendly, disclosing, trusting, intimate, helpful and facilitating but also as less relaxed, strong, stable and sensitive. (Author)

The results indicate that under special conditions providing prior information to the client concerning the directive nondirective character of interviewer behavior during the initial diagnostic interview influences client satisfaction, leads to client mediated changes in interviewer behavior, and increases the probability that the client will at…

Author's view on newer trends in the field which are giving rise to more comprehensive approach to personality theory and change. (Author/CJ)

Ten compulsive behaviors were recorded by a client during 23 weeks of counseling. The frequency records indicated sizeable decreases in the behaviors following relaxation, with additional, smaller decreases following desensitization. Changes in the MMPI and Fear Survey Schedule corroborated the client's self report of improved functioning. She had…

In a study of interpersonal and situational determinants of self disclosure in resistive" patients, psychiatric aides conducted brief interviews with hospitalized narcotics addicts. These results partially confirm prior therapy analogue studies involving the A B variable. (Author)

Most school psychologists have received little, if any, training in therapy; it is hypothesized that if the proper environment can be structured, all school psychologists will be able to engage in therapy. A model project with disadvantaged learners has supported the hypothesis. (Author)

The research review concludes that: (1) more attention be given to matching of patient and therapist, either on basis of complementarity or similarity; and (2) since scale apparently is not associated with empathy and genuineness there may be dimensions of interventions other than those studied by Rogers and his students. Presented at American…

Briefly defines purpose of each type of group function. (CJ)