The authors assessed burnout, compassion fatigue, secondary trauma symptoms, and compassion satisfaction in relation to experienced therapists' perceptions of the working alliance. Participants, 106 specialists in the treatment of clients who commit sexual abuse, completed the Working Alliance Inventory-Short Form (T. J. Tracey & A. M.…

The results yielded little evidence that the two methods of supervision were significantly different. More than half of the variance in how a trainee expected to be perceived by his clients was accounted for by knowing how he perceived his supervisor. (Author)

Results showed that the two-chair dialog applied at a split produced more depth of experiencing than did focusing plus emphatic reflection. Both treatments produced significantly greater reported shifts in awareness and progress than the no-treatment controls. (Author)

University students and faculty rank-ordered four counseling center titles in terms of the likelihood that they would utilize services offered by the centers. Results indicated that the counseling center title was very important to students and faculty in determining their use of a counseling center. (Author/BL)

Investigated the moderating effect of high and low anxiety on counselor perception of stages of dying. After completing the A-state scale, subjects observed a terminally ill speaker. Results indicated that high-anxious subjects, when compared with low-anxious, perceived the speakers as more denying, more angry, less accepting, and less hopeful.…

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Reports a personal commitment dimension in client expectancies about counseling. The findings extend and amplify considerably the information available on the dimensions underlying client expectancies about counseling. (Author)

Differences in presenting problems and counselor age were perceived as intended. Subjects' marital status was unrelated to any measures. Counselors were judged as most expert, attractive, and trustworthy when dealing with presenting problems that were least intimate. Subjects anticipated greater satisfaction with younger rather than older…

Examined the effects of counselor self-disclosure and paradoxical homework directives on perceived counselor social influence. Results indicated that paradoxical directives were not damaging to perceptions of counselor social influence and that counselor self-disclosure did not affect perceptions of counselor social influence. (Author/BL)

Investigated the relation of clients' locus of control (LOC) orientation to problem perception and initiative in counseling (N=50). Findings supported the relation between perception of locus of problem source on an external-internal dimension and LOC orientation. Extent of internality of LOC was related to client initiative. (JAC)

Tested three explanations for the differential impact of verbal and nonverbal cues on perceptions of counselor expertness, attractiveness, and trustworthiness: cue availability, vividness, and salience-vividness. Results suggest cue availability is not a compelling explanation for the power of nonverbal communications, vividness accounts for…

The results of the study on accuracy of occupational stereotypes of grade twelve boys showed that students with high academic development had more acurate stereotypes of high level jobs than of low level jobs, and those with low academic development and low socioeconomic status had more accurate stereotypes of low level jobs. (Author)

The results of the study on developmental group counseling showed no experimental control group differences of practical significance despite substantial differences between counseling group and placebo control group students in perception of personal benefit. (Author)

Examined effects of counselor attire on clients' state anxiety, willingness to self-disclose, and counselor preference. Counselor attire was traditional, casual, and highly casual. Clients experienced lower anxiety with counselors in casual v highly casual attire. No differences emerged between traditionally and casually attired counselors. Client…

Investigated the effect of counselor's training, experience, and similarity on hearing-impaired subjects' perceptions of the counselor and their willingness to see the counselor. Significant main effects for similarity and interactions of experience and similarity were found in students' ratings of the counselor and their willingness to see the…