Discusses helping relationships with minorities from the perspective that counseling minority clients is not different as long as the counselor takes into consideration their unique characteristics and problems and does not lose sight of their basic humanness. (Author/HMV)

Discusses the problems encountered in counseling the ethnically different, referred client who views the counselor as alien and threatening. Concludes that the counselor must help develop the self-esteem of the ethnically different client within the counseling relationship. (HMV)

This paper describes an approach to counseling that synthesizes psychological processes of change with theological concepts of the Christian faith. The approach assumes that persons can be self-directing and that persons are responsibile for their behavior, including the changes counseling is intended to facilitate. The counselor's job is to equip…

Describes two studies examining the relationship between locus of control and structure of group therapy. Results suggest that external clients may achieve the most significant therapeutic benefits from a structured therapist intervention within a spaced time format, while internal clients may require a therapist model of minimum control and…

This study investigated some relationships between the verbal behavior of 20 experienced therapists and their therapist effectiveness. Forced oral responses to a taped therapy interaction were obtained and analyzed. Each dependent variable was correlated against a rating of a therapist's effectiveness. Findings are discussed. (Author)

The purpose of this study was to assess counselee perceptions of counselor interpersonal affectiveness. Low-dogmatic counselors appear to show higher levels of psychological insight during counseling than high-dogmatic counselors. (Author)

An ongoing debate has centered on which school of therapy makes most effective use of the therapeutic relationship. This study divided clinical practitioners into three major theoretical orientations--psychodynamic, behavioristic, and humanistic--based on their own stated preferences. Results showed no significant differences between therapists.…

The study was designed to test the hypothesis that a facilitative model would enhance the process of imitative learning by an observer. Results suggest a close relationship between self-theory and social learning with regard to the role of the counselor. (Author)

The results of this study indicate that both races, black and white, enter into the counseling relationship with some pre-conceived feelings about the opposite race. Yet, if therapy sessions focus on the here-and-now concept, race was not found to preclude counselors from respecting, uncritically accepting, and recognizing the perceptions or…

Describes a peer-to-peer program initiated at one high school. The program, consisting of 12 sessions, attempted to help students raise the level of their self awareness, build communication skills, and achieve more satisfying interpersonal relationships. (Author/HMV)

Advisory work and its relation to teachers' centers is described. The following topics are considered: (1) differences between advisory work and other staff development; (2) purposes of advisory work; (3) methods advisors use; (4) realistic expectations of the advisor role: dilemmas and discouragements; (5) characteristics, skills, and experiences…

Reported is a preliminary paper on research currently in progress to investigate the effectiveness of written paradoxical and linear messages given to couples within the context of marital enrichment. There are several reasons for incorporating written communication into clinical practice, e.g., they are more difficult to ignore, forget or distort…

The effects of first-session interviewer self-disclosures that differed in three levels of intimacy--low, medium and high--and three kinds of temporal focus--historical (past tense and external to the interview process), current (present tense and external to the interview process), and existential in which the interviewer disclosed immediate…

"Helping Hand" programs involve the physical identification of stores, homes, restaurants and other establishments to which children on their way to and from school may go for assistance and/or safety. Identification cards are placed in windows of cooperating establishments and homes. In some communities home owners "watch the…

A model was developed to identify the communicative tasks that are most likely to facilitate successful consultation. Three distinctive features of process consultation were considered important to the model: the focus on the human element of the system, joint diagnosis between consultant and client, and the passing on of diagnostic skill. To…