Female snake-phobic subjects were assigned to one of three treatments: warm automated therapist procedure, cold automated therapist procedure, or control. Results showed significantly more improvement among subjects in the first group. (Author)

The present study investigates the relationship of the temporal characteristics of therapists' verbal behavior to the communication of empathic understanding in psychotherapy. (Author)

A brief description is presented of a Counseling Adjunct Program which has been a successful application of one of several possibilities available to counseling agencies that wish to employ nonprofessionals in direct service positions. (Author)

This article describes a storefront counseling center where part-time volunteers involve young people in positive ways. (JC)

This article concerns the role of the counselor in the secondary school and the problems surrounding that position. (JC)

Consulting provides counselors with a process for affecting their public image while becoming highly accountable to the full range of their clientele. (Author)

The right to intervene in the life of another and the power helpers have when they do intervene are value-laden issues. Excerpts from nonprofessional literature are used to stimulate a reexamination of these issues as they pertain to counseling. (Author)

This article describes the Interpersonal Process Recall (IPR) procedure as used in one setting to assist counselors examine the interpersonal dynamics of the counseling process through the use of video-tape recording. (JC)

This paper is an attempt to provide a survey of the work of one of our seminal interpersonal theorists, S. Potter. His writings are analyzed for their relevance to the consultant of today and to the consultant of yesterday. (Author)

These findings, along with prior ones from the same investigation, suggest that outcome is affected by the attitudes and beliefs of therapists concerning prognosis for lower-class and severely disturbed clients: therapists who believe they can help such clients can often do so. (Author)

Correctional counseling is in some ways quite different from school counseling in the areas of freedom and authority. Many barriers exist in the field of corrections, particularly in prisons, that hinder the establishment of an effective counseling program or counseling relationship. Counselors who enter the field of corrections are pioneering a…

The librarian-counselor is not proposed as an ideal substitute for a full-time counselor. However, in a small, financially pressed school with no counselor, the librarian may well be the best candidate for a part-time counselor position. (Author)

The involuntary client is a frequently encountered problem in employment counseling and other social agency counseling. Possible reasons for his recalcitrance are examined and their implications for the counseling relationship are discussed. (Author)

It is the thesis of this article that college counselors would make more economical and efficacious use of their time and would greatly reduce the risk of turning off'' students if they employed in vivo desensitization rather than systematic desensitization when dealing with anxious clients. (Author)