Examines impact of negotiations on education relating it to counselor role. Explores dimensions and implications of negotiations and attitude of professional associations. Comment by Charles T. Schmidt, Associate Professor Industrial Relations at University of Rhode Island, contends article is devoid of scholarship, deficient in data, excessively…

The results of this study support the use of recorded models and a supervisor style that deals specifically with techniques as effective means of imparting empathic skills. (Author)

A group of practicum students experienced either an experiential-introspective approach or a didactic-behavioristic approach in their training. The experiential-introspective approach was somewhat more successful in fostering an affective relationship. (Author)

The column focuses on practical procedures that counselors have found effective in their work. (Author)

The author suggests that counselors provide information regarding the outcomes of their efforts. The survival of counseling depends on documented and justified outcomes. (BY)

The author advocates that counselors use whatever techniques maximize the possibility of a healthy counselor client relationship and the achievement of optimal human development. (BY)

Self Actualization was assessed by 12 scale scores on the Personal Orientation Inventory (POI). Neither experience nor any of the single POI scales correlated significantly with counselor success. An analysis yielded a three variate equation for prediction of counselor success: Time Competence, Capacity for Intimate Contact, and Self Acceptance.…

Schmidt and Strong's data (same journal, v17, 1970) on student ratings of the expertness of counselors versus training and experience of the counselors subjected to a least squares test, indicate that expertness as judged by students is not correlated in any simple way with experience but rather that the students liked one of the counselors,…

A rejoinder to 12 comments on article written by same author in same issue. (CJ)

This investigation evaluates the effects of videotape modeling and videotape feedback techniques on the counseling behavior of untrained female undergraduates in a quasi-therapy, microcounseling, situation. The results indicated that modeling and feedback techniques were effective in increasing the frequency, but not the accuracy, of counselor…

The author responds to criticism of a paper he presented which was discussed in a critique presented in this same issue. (CG(

To the extent that the existential counselor overstresses the subjectivity of the counselor's life goals and the authenticity with which he pursues them, he may be thwarting the possibility of a better balance and integration between the worlds of things, people and self. (Author)

Different levels of counselor and client dogmatism combined additively in terms of their effect on client ratings of the relationship. Client ratings of the relationship were progressively higher as more openness occurred in the dyad. (Author)

Using a model developed by Carkhuff for predicting growth in interpersonal functioning, changes over time in the behavior of counseling interns on the facilitative dimensions of empathy, regard, genuineness, and concreteness were examined. Interns having supervisors who were functioning at high levels changed significantly and positively. Interns…

Personal reactions of a middle aged" counselor trainee to a practicums experience. Brief, witty, yet pointed. (CJ)