The impact of the subject's perceived level of parental acceptance-rejection on his perception of therapeutic conditions in a simulated counseling interview was investigated. (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)

Outlined is a therapeutic approach to intercession in intergroup conflict which involves establishing and institutionalizing linkages of communication and contact between the hostile parties. Comments by Edward W. Barrett and Melvin Guyer follow. (Author/BY)

Counselor trainees' perceptions of inhibition while they were conducting interviews in differently monitored situations (audio, video, nonmonitor) were studied. The results clearly indicate that beginning counselors perceive monitoring to have an inhibiting effect upon their interview performance. (Author)

This interview with Chicano children reveals a striking portrait of the characteristics in a counselor that attract or inhibit them. Their perceptions dramatize the significance of verbal and nonverbal behavior in establishing early patterns of communication between Anglo counselors and Chicano youth. (Author)

Study results indicated that high liking and high empathy together did not predict successful outcome, though a post hoc analysis showed a positive relationship between high empathy alone and successful outcome. Results also indicated that inexperienced therapists were generally less empathic than experienced therapists. (Author)

Counselors were asked to indicate their preferences among three kinds of clients: culturally deprived black, ex convict, and ex mental patient. Data suggested that counselors do have biases and that these biases color how counselors perceive and respond to clients with certain handicapping conditions. (Author)

Analysis of variance was employed to evaluate the therapeutic relationship offered to schizophrenic and psychoneurotic patients by A-B type therapists. Results are discussed in context of the Whitehorn-Betz original claim that the differential therapeutic success of A-B type therapists with schizophrenic and psychoneurotic clients are a function…

This comments on an article in same journal by L. M. Brammer. (CJ)

Lewin's concept of a life-space diagram provides a model for understanding the key elements in the environment of psychologists functioning in correctional institutions. (Author)

Physicians with formal coursework tended to relate somewhat differently to the dying patient than did physicians who did not take such a course. This difference might also be attributed to a self-selection of students choosing to take such a course. (Author)

Identifies the destructive effects of a negative attitude towards the handling of warranted separations of children from their families, and affirms that separation remains a necessary and sometimes beneficial therapeutic option. (CM)

Recent challenges require demonstration of independence of effects of therapy procedures from nonspecifics. Logical tautology precludes demonstration of independence from some nonspecifics. Role of client outcome-expectancy as an interpretive artifact is questionable. The following three articles constitute an interchange of differing perspectives…

Although aversive therapeutic approaches can be very effective in eliminating undesirable behavior, many clients do not commit themselves to participating in an activity which is subjectively very unpleasant. The addition of a positive reinforcement system whereby the client is rewarded for engaging in aversive therapy is proposed. (Author)