Graduate counseling students were placed in two groups according to whether they anticipated the supervisory relatonship to be more or less facilitative. Blacks differed from whites on how they anticipated the supervisory relationship. (Author)

Discusses development and use of a new scale which systematically assesses the social climates of university student living groups. A brief discussion of the construction and validation of the scale is followed by a comparison between living units and group climates on two large university campuses. (Author)

Reports on a nationwide survey to gain information about the current status of the student personnel profession. Questions were designed to provide a profile of the institutions surveyed, a profile of the chief student personnel officers, and a profile of student affairs staff. Discusses several areas of concern about the results of the data. (PC)

Discusses the research model used to train junior high school students in helping relations using the Carkhuff model. Both the research data and resulting behaviors lend support to the concept that effective training of peers can have positive and far-reaching impact on both peer counselor trainees and those to whom they related. (Author/PC)

Eighteen college students participated in a 24-hour marathon group and responded to the California Psychological Inventory (CPI) immediately before and after the experience. The results disclosed significant positive changes at the .05 level on 11 of 18 scales on this inventory. (Author)

Students' perceptions of the Purdue University environment were compared with their perceptions of an ideal university environment on a 41-item, 4-scale questionnaire. Results indicated that the students felt Purdue differed significantly from the ideal on 38 of the items. (Author)

A group of 144 high school dropouts were surveyed in an effort to dtudy the prevalence and correlates of their drug use as compared to that of 2,277 high school students. The results were reported according to grade level, sex, and ethnicity. (Author)

Discusses a study evaluating encounter group experiences as they relate to behavioral measures of self-disclosure. Results are discussed in terms of clinical and ethical considerations in conducting encounter groups, the format of the particular group, group leadership styles, and clinical aspects of the group process. (Author/PC)

A questionnaire was sent to Canadian counselor educators regarding the nature of training opportunities in counselor education. Fourteen universities were identified as offering masters degrees in counseling and were compared on several variables. Recommendations for improvements and development in counselor education training were discussed.…

Intimate self-disclosure to a stranger or an acquaintance was seen as less appropriate than nondisclosure. Disclosure to someone of a different age was seen as less appropriate than nondisclosure. Disclosure or nondisclosure to a person of the same age or to a friend was perceived as appropriate. (Author)

Freshmen entering a large northeastern university in 1969 scored higher on the clinical MMPI scales than students transferring to the same university. Men and women freshmen each scored signigicantly higher on the paranoia, psychasthenia and schizophrenia scales than transfer students. Transfer students were thought to have progressed further…

This study is concerned with personal development of college undergraduates as affected by campus residence environments. Freshman to senior changes involving interpersonal, autonomy, and academic behavioral attitudes were determined for two groups of students living under different conditions: dormitory (experimental) and fraternity (control).…

The type of helper from which help is sought and the causal locus to which the help seeker's problem is attributed have been suggested as factors that affect the way help seekers are perceived. The present study investigated the social rejection of help seekers as a function of these two variables. (Author)

The correspondence between the Minnesota MMPI and the Mini-Mult in terms of similar clinical decisions has been examined in several recent reports. The purpose of the present study was to extend the comparative data between the Mini-Mult and the standard MMPI to include two samples of alcoholics. (Author)

Discusses results of two studies conducted to investigate communications between friends, since it is often stated that psychotherapy is a type of friendship. Findings showed that empathic responses were infrequent between friends trying to be helpful, though such responses constituted a majority of statements of model Rogerian therapists.…