In a study of counselor verbal behavior as a function of client stimulus input, a counseling paradigm was employed using 4 client‐actors and 30 counselors. Independent variables were hostile or friendly client behavior, amount of counseling experience, counselor sex and client sex. The dependent variable of counselor verbal behavior was measured by a revision of the Bales Interaction Process Analysis Categories. Analysis of variance led to the finding that all of the independent variables had a statistically significant effect upon the counselors' verbal responses, but the number of response categories affected varied from 1 to 7 depending on the variable involved. Significant interaction effects were also found. From the data, it was concluded that client demeanor and client sex significantly influenced counselors' verbal responses, but counselor experience and counselor sex were relatively unimportant in their effect upon the counselors' behavior.
after a lengthy illness. He was one of the early and continuing influential persons in guidance, counseling psychology, and counselor education and was particularly famed for his longitudinal research in school counseling. He attributed his early interest in longitudinal research to W. F. Dearborn with whom he worked on the Harvard Growth Studies involving 2,000 school children in the early 1930s. He also worked on the Dartmouth Study on Vision and Motivation in the late 1930s. At Harvard University, Rothney specialized in both child development and guidance and counseling, studying with such notables as John Brewer, Gordon Allport, Henry Murray, and Philip Rulon, who chaired his dissertation committee. Rothney joined the faculty in the School of Education at the University of Wisconsin in 1939 and retired from that institution in 1971.Rothney was in military service during World War II, serving from 1942 to 1946. There he worked with John Flanagan, then head of the American Research Institute and a Harvard classmate, in the classification of aviation cadets. Later he was involved in a follow-up evaluation of that work in the Russell Islands.Rothney's legacy in guidance, counseling psychology, and counselor education is best reflected in his inspiring and unflagging efforts in longitudinal research focusing on guidance and counseling practices in the schools. Rothney believed that "immediate outcomes" were not the major criteria for judging the effectiveness of counseling. He argued there must be "residual effect" over time and to verify this meant longitudinal research. The Arlington, Massachusetts Study reported in the book,
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