These results replicate prior studies and suggest that current depression may moderate the relationship between sexual abuse and medical problems in adulthood.

Students enrolled in an introductory counselor education course who lacked training and experience as interviewers were randomly assigned to one of two short-term attending and responding skills training groups or a wait-control (WC) group. Brief microskills practice (MS) and mental practice (MP) training methods were used in the two treatment groups. All students conducted posttraining simulated counseling interviews, and their videotapes provided data for analysis of the quality of their interview competence and their proficiency with attending and responding skills. MANOVA and follow-up analyses of data from independent ratings of the videotapes indicated that MS was superior to MP and WC on attending skills, MP led to superior performance on responding skills, and neither MP nor MS led to significant differences in perceived competence on qualitative dimensions.Potential human service workers have many training needs, and the ability to communicate effectively with others is one of them. Among communication needs, basic attending and responding skills are a foundation for competence as a human service worker (Egan, 1982;Ivey & Authier, 1978). Given these assumptions, designers of communication skills training programs must decide how much time to devote to training and the relative cost-effectiveness of rival methods. Stanley B . Baker is an associate professor of Education, Michael E .

Students enrolled in an introductory counseling course who lacked training and experience as counselors were randomly assigned to one of two decisionmaking counseling training groups or to a wait-control (WC) group. Microskills practice (MS) and mental practice (MP) were each separately combined with instructions, modeling, feedback, and review in the two treatment groups. All trainees conducted posttraining simulated counseling interviews, and their videotapes provided data for analysis of the quality of their counseling competence and their proficiency with the decision-making counseling paradigm. Multivariate analysis of variance and follow-up analyses of data from independent ratings of the videotapes indicated that MS and MP were superior to WC on three of five qualitative dimensions and a proficiency measure. Implications for teaching higher-order counseling skills are discussed, and further research hypotheses are suggested.