Articles explore value influences in psychotherapy, and discuss: background information, moral transformation in psychotherapy, initial commitment to treatment, and value-based therapy (TOTEL). This symposium was delivered at the 1977 Annual Meeting of the American Psychological Association, Division of Psychotherapy, in Orlando, Florida. (Author)

Compared helping interactions of partners in close relationships and of strangers. Participants (N=92) from 46 couples completed semistructured helping tasks with their partner and with an opposite-sex stranger. Partners were less empathic and used fewer acknowledgements and more behavioral advisements, interpretations, and self-disclosures than…

Discusses several obstacles to staff/parent partnership and describes 13 ways of building and maintaining such a collaborative relationship. (RH)

Provides an overview of mentoring and networking and encourages helping professionals to explore the literature and processes of mentoring and networking to use and extend these ideas as they work with students and clients toward life goals. (JAC)

The effects of therapists' and patients' moods on therapist empathy, warmth, and genuineness were studied in an intensive design. It was concluded that the therapist feelings preceding the facilitative therapy hour'' were not the same for high- and low-facilitative therapists. The use of the intensive design in psychotherapy processs research was…

This article describes three predictable and sequential phases that represent a normal cycle of emotional responses by victims of sexual assualt. A series of interventions was developed to help patients work through each phase as smoothly as possible. (Author)

In general, none of the measures of rated disturbance was related to outcome criteria, but small to modest inverse relationships were obtained between the measures of subjective disturbance and global ratings of outcome. (Author)

The results of this study provide evidence that counselors become involved in the defensive maneuvers of clients when objective self discrepant information is presented. (Author)

Attributes of facilitation are a process of enabling change, a climate for learning, and a negotiated, collaborative process. Facilitator qualities, access to a learning situation, and motivation must be present for facilitation to occur. Consequences of facilitation are reciprocal change and feedback and increased independence. (SK)

Describes one educator's efforts to aid gang members by initiating alternative education and recreation projects in Oakland and Los Angeles, California. Believing that young people join groups to fulfill unmet needs, the author finds caring adults the key to helping kids with affiliation and self-esteem deficiencies. (MLH)

Reports two studies of the process by which supportive messages in nonintimate relationships yield positive outcomes. Finds that an offer of assistance to a person working on a stressful cognitive task improves performance and that supportive messages (regardless of form) are perceived by observers as beneficial to a person working on a…

Liberal and socialist feminist theory is used to demonstrate how the male institution of professionalism has hindered the evolution of the predominantly female discipline of nursing. Knowledge acquired through the experience of caring should be an integral part of the vision of nursing. (SK)

Illustrates application of Carkhuff's model to occupational therapy, through the core dimensions (empathy, respect, genuineness, concreteness), helping client learning (exploration, understanding, action), and helper skills (attending, responding, personalizing, and initiating). (SK)