Counseling oriented individuals confront their clients in an active, expressive, concrete, and genuine encounter which communicates a strong belief in the client's worth. The counselor focuses on specifics both in terms of content and feeling and avoids abstractions and over generalized and compacted words and phrases. (Author)

A roundtable of physicians discuss the ways in which lonely people, both men and women, use sexual activity as an outlet for their need to be needed," usually with unsatisfactory results. (CJ)

Tests the hypothesis that an ingratiating subordinate will receive more rewards when the one in power is also faced with a hostile subordinate. Finds that an ingratiating subordinate receives more than his share of rewards regardless, and that all compliant subordinates receive even more when a hostile subordinate is present. (MB)

Data from this study were analyzed and showed that (a) attending behavior can be taught via the use of the materials and procedures that have been developed; and (b) students rated counselors trainined in attending behavior more positively than they rated counselors who did not receive such training. It seems that the concept of attending is an…

Reprinted from The Lancet, August 1969. (JJ)

The findings suggest that Ss who were instructed in a pretraining model to express feelings did so more accurately than either the group that saw a counselor in an initial interview or the control group. The pretraining design might be employed to teach clients to discriminate between appropriate and inappropriate behaviors in the counseling…

Focuses on achievement striving in kindergarten and that kindergarteners' striving would be affected by ratio of approval over disapproval received from teachers for achievement behavior. (Author)