Physical and social loss which accompany aging are often believed to promote dependency upon family, social services, and health care providers. Clinicians frequently complain about dependent clients and patients who leave the clinician feeling worn out, or worse, burned out. Very few publications have defined or addressed this problem identified…

One hundred and sixty-eight college students ranked 12 help sources in terms of perceived potential for help with two categories of problems, emotional and educational-vocational. For emotional concerns, students ranked student friend first, an older friend second, and parents third. For educational-vocational problems, students ranked faculty…

This article presents a way of using John Holland's Self-Directed Search as an illustration of how such an inventory can be employed dynamically within a developmental career counseling framework. Use is discussed in terms of environmental exploration, self-exploration, and integration of information. (Author)

Maintains that if counselor is to be effective with Black counselees, he must orient himself to techniques that will quickly bring the counselee to a level of awareness and action. Describes several techniques and gives examples. (Author/HMV)

This article discusses the difficulties the minority group counselor has in working with white students. Suggestions for overcoming these difficulties are offered. (RWP)

This theoretical paper is based on the premise that nearly all people who enter therapy do so, to varying degrees, with the wish (conscious or unconscious demand) to have dependent longing and affectional needs gratified in the therapy itself. The conditions under, and the extent to which, the therapist provides direct gratification are crucial…

When facing terminal illness, the dying individual needs to accept death and his feelings about it, deal with potential isolation from friends and relatives, and find meaning in his remaining time. Family members need also to accept death. Family counseling offers a treatment method for responding to these needs. (Author)

A group of 20 female college peer counselors were compared to 20 female suicide attempters and a control group of 20 nonsuicidal females for personality characteristics and family background, using the Edwards Personal Preference Schedule and a questionnaire. (Author)

Four field experiments were carried out to examine the effects of a violation of personal space on the "victims" subsequent behavior. (Editor)

One of the major tenets of relationship psychotherapy is that the client and therapist have a reciprocal impact on each other's behavior. This study was designed to investigate the relationship between client-therapist interaction patterns and therapeutic outcome. (Author)

Relationship-centered satisfaction was significantly greater when subjects perceived themselves as similar rather than dissimilar to the counselor in terms of values or life-style preferences and when the counselor was informal rather than formal. The results underscore the utility of separating the satisfaction concept into relationship-centered…

Physicians and rape crisis counselors may play important roles in assisting a rape victim; their beliefs and perceptions about rape may influence their treatment of the victim. Physicians (N=10) and volunteer rape counselors (N=44) completed questionnaires focused on demographic characteristics, their experiences with rape victims, and personal…

The role of helping professionals is emerging as an integral part of a comprehensive program. "Resource resourcefulness," a developmental phase of any such program, requires special knowledge and skills on the part of all helping professionals, from counselors to career education specialists. A resource can be defined as any source of information,…

The differential effects of self- and other-directed negative affect on subsequent generosity are explored in two studies, both using a modified version of the direct mood inducement procedure (Moore, 1973). Subjects (N=85) in the first experiment were children aged 7-12. Subjects (N=48) in the second experiment were college undergraduates.…

This paper investigates the effects of age and sex on the spontaneous helping behavior of preschool children. Forty-six middle-class children, 22 boys and 24 girls, attending school in a small city in northeastern Kansas took part in the study. Children were divided by median split into younger and older groups. Taped interactions of children with…