Experienced counselors who also had systematic training on the facilitative conditions were consistently accurate in discriminating the helpfulness of others and themselves. Experienced counselors who had no systematic training showed good discrimination of other's helpfulness, but they significantly overrated themselves as to their own…

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)

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

This study illustrates the value of sharing responsibility with students for action to be taken in school as a result of counseling. When students know what counselors are recommending to teachers about them, they will often take initiative to help get follow through action started. (Author)

The authors conclude that statutory protection of privilege is not a carte blanche protection; rather it affords the counselors a diminished degree of dependence upon judicial discretion. (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)

Describes a new questionnaire technique for measuring change in the individual client state before and after counseling, examines its application in a series of studies on psychiatric patients, and reviews a further illustration with a 20-year-old college freshman. (Author/CJ)

For many mentally restored persons, avocational counseling and placement may be a more realistic, therapeutic, and feasible rehabilitation goal than conventional vocationally-oriented approaches. Since many severely psychiatrically disabled people are without the requisite emotional aptitude for work, an avocation might provide many of the…

Therapist's pregnancy creates new problems and opportunities for therapeutic relationships. Patient reactions relate to impending separation and psychological and physical events of pregnancy. Pregnant therapists also have new reactions to patients and must consider potential benefits of communicating something personal about themselves. (NRB)

Investigates relationship between work stability/satisfaction and occupational, learning, and social support orientations of rehabilitation personnel. Employees have occupational characteristics of social, artistic, and investigative profiles. Matching rehabilitative facilities promotes stable and satisfying work situations. Occupational…

Patients described their perceptions of ideal therapist characteristics and subsequently described their own therapist. Data suggest there is consensus on what patients expect in a therapist and also suggest a relationship between how well therapists meet these expectancies and how effective patients consider their therapy. (Author)

Evaluated perceptions of treatment environments within the Comprehensive Drug Program of Dade County (Miami) Florida. Analysis revealed that perceptions of drug clients toward their treatment environments were more positive than those of clients in other types of medical and psychiatric treatment. Perceptions varied directly with contact between…

Male felony offenders in a live-in treatment center rank ordered curative factor categories similarly to Yalom's well-educated, middle-socioeconomic-class outpatients. Both groups ranked catharsis, group cohesiveness, and interpersonal learning (input) as the three most important categories. The only discrepancy was the ranking of universality.…