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…

This study investigated the effects of two supervisory roles when used within the small group practicum seminar, on counselor trainees' ability to emit understanding, affective, and exploratory responses in their final counseling interviews. Significant differences were observed only in the ability of the trainees to emit understanding responses.…

Describes administration and analysis of Inventory. Factors obtained from analysis were interpreted as "nonevaluative acceptance psychological insight, and likability. (Author/CJ)

Differentiates and elaborates on the need, usefulness, and relationship between counseling theory and philosophy. (Author/EK)

Counselor-offered conditions of empathy, nonpossessive warmth, genuineness, and intensity of interpersonal contact were self-evaluated by 44 counselors and compared with supervisors' evaluations of tape recorded sessions. Findings are discussed. (Author)

Author expresses view that: (1) counseling is a legitimate profession searching for its own identity: (2) according to vocational self concept development theory it is not necessary for counselors to be teachers first; and (3) education of counselors must exist in its own right. Presented in debate at Canadian Guidance and Counselling Association…

The hypothesis was confirmed that behavioral counselors who were facilitative, that is, high in their offerings of warmth, empathy, and genuineness would be more effective than nonfacilitative behavioral counselors, that is, low in their offerings of warmth, empathy and genuineness. (Author/CG(

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)

Results of the study showed that role playing was no more effective than the control procedure. Subjects reported counselors' activities had little or no effect on their decision to initiate action. (Author)

Discussions of sexual situations may stir erotic feelings in both therapist and patient. Experienced counselors can handle these emotions, but less scrupulous ones may exploit the patient. (Author)

A crucial part of a program for the development of an existential counselor would, the author believes, be the provision of a series of experiences in which the sensitivities of the student would become more intimately felt and realized. (Author)

The counselor must demonstrate an understanding awareness of the outlook the client has internalized and must help him scrutinize this outlook critically and make his own decisions about any changes he wishes to make in the interest of greater personal fulfillment. (Author)