This article, exploring the degree of our freedom to act, was based on some intriguing hypotheses relating behavior to brain function. (Author/RK)

Article concerned the use of the process of videotape techniques to enable participants to relive and describe their interpersonal encounters in depth and detail as a teaching tool for the training of students in the helping professions. (Editor/RK)

Presents a description of a neonatal monitoring system and the studies used in its validation. (SDH)

Independent treatments concentrating upon the subjective versus behavioral dimensions of speech anxiety were investigated with a view toward assessing the existence of independent, generalized, or synergistic effects. Theoretical and practical implications of the apparent synergistic effect of the independent treatments are considered. (Author)

Power of counseling research is discussed with respect to alpha levels, sample size, and size of effect. Four years of counselor education research are reviewed and analyzed according to the criteria of statistical power. Recommendations for increasing the power of research in counselor education are made. (Author)

The question of whether clinical faculty members at the Southern College of Optometry treat students differently on the basis of gender was investigated. Of the 21 full-time faculty members, 14 completed a survey using short scenarios to evaluate gender bias. Findings indicate that the respondents appeared to provide equal and unbiased treatment…

The first objective of a small exploratory study was to explore the speculation that adults do not resist change, but what they do resist are expected losses that may arise in association with the change. The second objective was to acquire some preliminary findings about the types of losses that adults may expect when facing change. Thirty…

A forced-choice observer-based testing procedure was used to determine pure-tone hearing thresholds for 2- to 4-week-old infants. Stimuli were 500-ms tone bursts of 500, 1,000, or 4,000 Hz with 500-ms intervals between tone bursts. Stimuli were presented monaurally by means of an insert earphone. Each 15-s trial consisted of 5 tone bursts,…

Two black psychologists and a white educator explain why the black community should be concerned with and actively involved in behavior modification practices. Alternatives are offered for increasing the number of black professionals in the field of behavior modification to help preserve the integrity of the black community. (Author)

Because the author felt the work of B. F. Skinner has become so popular, he decided to clarify some of the major flaws underlying his system. (Author/RK)

Articles and brief reports appearing in the first 19 volumes of the Journal of Counseling Psychology were classified into 17 content categories and certain methodological features were recorded from each research article. The three principle areas of research activity and publication were counseling outcome and process research, research on…

Results from two experimental situations, risk taking and helping behavior, indicate that in the risk-taking experiment subjects who agreed to maintain confidentiality disclosed less frequently information when compared to control subjects. In the helping behavior study, no difference was found in frequency of disclosed information between…

This study uses Bales' Interaction Process Analysis (I. P. A.) to identify significant process elements in counselling and psychotherapy. For this purpose, the film "Three Approaches to Psychotherapy" was analysed. (Editor)

The reliability of an abbreviated form of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI), the Mini-Mult, and its degree of correspondence with the MMPI were evaluated with a sample of 60 hospitalized schizophrenic veterans. The major results indicate respectable validity and reliability coefficients for most Mini-Mult Scales. (Author)

This study investigates the hypotheses that (a) the creation of new experience in cognitive functioning involves increased differentiation and integration of meaning and (b) self-actualization involves the tendency to engage in a mode of cognitive processing that creates new experience. (Author)