It is clear that steps can be taken for heart disease prevention and that counselors must give thought to adapting existing ideas and techniques and to developing and experimenting with new and innovative preventive tactics. Of utmost importance is the belief that behavioral intervention is both warranted and worthwhile. (Author)

The authors feel that military recruiting should not be permitted in schools. Counselors should help students who consider enlisting look at the positive and negative aspects of military life as well as legal contractual obligations. (Author/HLM)

Employment interview research since 1949 is reviewed, with emphasis on recent data-based literature (1969-1976), and counselor utilization of this material to aid clients who are approaching job interviews is discussed. (Author)

Elementary school counselors (N=347) were sent a questionnaire to assess beliefs and actual behavior related to confidentiality with child clients. When asked if confidentiality issues were resolved on the basis of the child's age, maturity, and situation, half agreed and half did not, suggesting a wide range of application practices. (Author)

The literature clearly reveals that children can effectively produce behavioral changes in their peers and directly benefit from the experience. Research is needed to gain a better understanding of the ways child agents produce change in their proteges and the impact of their activities on non-target behaviors and non-target children. (EVH)

Systematic observations of parent-child interaction collected in the homes of 25 families who participated in a parent-mediated social reprogramming treatment project for aggressive boys were used to assess changes in parent consequences for child behavior. (Author)

More counselors must become aware of the effects of power relationships in counseling and decide when and how to avoid them. (Author)

Systems logic in family intervention is a new way of conceptualizing human behavior. It assists the helper to decide where and how to intervene to most effectively mobilize the energy, resources, and skills of the family. (Author)

The purpose of this study was to determine if high school counselors exhibit vocational female/male sex role stereotyping of high school students in traditional occupational fields. No overt sex bias was found. (Author)

Advantages, assumptions, constraints, and desirable attitudes regarding interdisciplinary practice are listed. Educational implications are made explicit with emphasis on professional identity formation. (Author/LBH)

This approach to working with families under stress recognizes the family as a system interacting via communication patterns among its own members and within a larger context of peers, neighbors, school, work, and community agencies. Presented to the Canadian Guidance and Counseling Association, June 1975 at Vancouver, British Columbia. (Author)

Female (N = 4) interviewers, two black and two white, portrayed expert or referent role and attempted to influence 32 white subjects to use problemsolving processes and perform career-planning activities. Significant interactions of race and role were obtained such that black-expert and white-referent interviewers were most influential in attitude…

Examined type of situation and sex of the counselor in assertive training. Female subjects were given training in making complaints, small talk, and saying no to unreasonable requests. Significant improvement occurred. Subjects seen by a male counselor changed significantly more than subjects seen by a female counselor. (Author)

Three types of correlations were used to examine interrelationships of scales for therapist empathy, warmth, genuineness, self-disclosure, and immediacy. Immediacy and self-disclosure were not significantly related to empathy and warmth for high-facilitative therapists. Results suggest use of all facilitative scales is best justified when ongoing…

Male and female subjects were exposed to stereotypic representations of either a traditional professional or humanistic model therapy office. Subjects consistently perceived a female therapist in the traditional-professional office as significantly more credible than a female therapist in the humanistic office. (Author)