Examined whether psychotherapists (N=24) and untrained students (N=24) with similar personalities would respond similarly to patient presentations. Results showed therapists demonstrated a higher degree of accurate empathy, were less active, made shorter responses, and used more declarative sentences. Therapist personality x patient type pairings…

In this study, comparisons of measured philosophical beliefs, philosophical positions related in an interview, and counseling behavior were made for 22 counselor trainees at the University of Maine at Orono. Many trainees were unable to explain or understand their philosophical belief or show its implications in counseling behavior. (Author)

In replying to Leo Goldman's charge that tests and counseling have failed to come help one another, the author argues that at least tests provide the counselor and student with information not ordinarily obtained in other ways. (Author/BY)

Analytic therapists as a group judged therapeutic outcome more positively than did behavior therapists, which was interpreted as a greater predisposition to see change where none existed. (Author)

The polemic being advanced in this paradigm for professionalization is simply that the school counselor must take an active part in his own professionalization. It is what the school counselor does, ultimately, that will decide this issue. (Author)

This article proposes that APGA attempt to shift the emphasis of the convention to obtaining concrete behavioral outcomes through the use of behavioral contracts (rather than resolutions) and through the specification and assessment of objectives for individual convention programs. (Author)

Widespread dissatisfaction with professional counselors and the service they provide is manifested in scathing attacks by women's lib proponents, minority group spokesmen, revolutionary lay counselors, and disenchanted professionals. This article identifies the criticism, and describes a lay counselor operation. (Author)

Differences among counselors' manifest style of intervention were shown to be directly related to their respective theoretical orientations. Previous assumptions that theoretical orientation and style of intervention are nonsignificant variables among "well experienced counselors" were rejected. A comment by Fred E. Fiedler follows the article.…

In determining whether the technique of desensitization would reduce the initial anxiety experienced by the beginning counselor trainee, analyses of the data revealed significantly less self-reported anxiety in the experimental group. No differences were found in heart rate, skin resistance, and tape-evaluation measures. (Author/CG(

The counselor, in working with students, can make each choice a means through which the person clarifies his purposes and designs his own future. Every commitment of time is a serious undertaking. This, the author sees, is the fundamental message of existentialism for counseling. (Author)

The author sees Kemp's views on counselor preparation as most interesting. One would hope that much of what he suggests about developing insights into man through literature and other creative arts would take place as part of every college student's undergraduate endeavors. (Author/BY)

The author directs his review of Kemp's Existential Counseling" toward a concern with the implication that existential therapy is a proposed successor to other forms of therapy including psychoanalysis. (Author/BY)

Levels of warmth were significantly related to student evaluation of effectiveness for females but not for males. While resident and student ratings of effectiveness were significantly related overall and for females, the counseling variables were not related significantly to head resident ratings. It appears that residents and students responded…

Service learning integrates classroom instruction with community service to augment learning. This method of instruction facilitates humanistic counseling skills by enhancing counselor awareness and knowledge of unique needs and strengths of diverse peoples while promoting personal, social, civic, and professional responsibility. This article…