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)

The purpose of this study was to determine the training needs of certified rehabilitation counselors practicing in a variety of settings by identifying knowledge areas perceived by counselors as important for which they also reported limited preparation levels. Results of the analysis revealed 23 knowledge areas in which a critical training need…

Maintains that communication consultants can help increase organizational effectiveness by therapeutically applying communication research, especially interpretive research, to organizational development. Describes a six-step model of therapeutic organizational communication consultation. Presents an organizational development study to illustrate…

Discusses the studio as a therapeutic community of images where the therapist functions as keeper of the space. It is not the physical suitability that determines the suitability of the space; rather, distractions and imperfections in the space may more accurately mirror the state of psyche and so induce the passionate engagement that calls forth…

Describes employee assistance model in which cost-effective, high-quality treatment can be offered for a complex range of alcohol-related problems. Notes that this system of care allows the employee to be treated in the least restrictive therapeutic environment, thus encouraging continued productivity at work. (Author/NB)