This study was designed to determine whether secondary school counselors respond more positively to female clients with traditionally feminine (conforming) goals than those with traditionally masculine (deviate) goals. Five stimulus interviews with high school girls elicited information concerning their home, school, self-description, and personal values. These were presented on audiotape to 64 practicing counselors and their responses were analyzed by sex and experience. Results were as follows: (a) Female counselor gave higher Acceptance scores to both deviate and conforming clients than did male counselors; (b) counselors, regardless of sex, rated conforming goals as more appropriate than deviate; (c) counselors, regardless of sex, rated female clients with deviate career goals to be more in need of counseling than those with conforming goals.

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This research was designed to investigate whether 42 counseling students would respond differently to identical client statements in which the degree of affect was varied. Students viewed four people, each presenting four one‐minute videotaped stimulus vignettes. There were four female high‐affect statements, four female neutral‐affect statements, four male high‐affect statements, and four male neutral‐affect statements. A 2 × 2 × 2 × 4 analysis of variance with repeated measures on the last measure was used to analyze the data, and Newman‐Keuls post hoc comparisons were done. The analysis indicated that the affect level had a significant effect on the degree to which the counselor judged that the client needed help. There was also a difference in the ratings of female and male counselors and a difference in counselor response to female and male clients.