Personality variables and counselor-client affect.

Abstract

Measures of client and counselor autonomy, alienation and withdrawal, and guardedness, and the interaction;, of these variables between the client and his counselor were employed as predictor variables in an analysis of regression design where several estimates of counselor-client affect were offered as criterion variables. The counselor and client samples (18 and 121, respectively) were drawn from 8 university counseling centers and the measures were obtained for initial interviews only. The combined levels of guardedness of counselor and client were positively related to the combined expressions of positive affect.

The influence of client-counselor value similarity on change in meaning during brief counseling.

“…Recently, however, Williams (1962) demonstrated that significant changes in perceptual congruence among the concepts of Self, Ideal Self and Ordinary Person occurred as a result of brief vocational-educational counseling. It has also been shown that client-counselor similarity in personality has measurable and significant effects in brief counseling with college students (Tuma & Gustad, 1957;Mendelsohn & Gellar, 1963;Canon, 1964).…”

The Counseling Process and Function

“…Additional References: Canon (1964); Demos (1964); Gonyea (1963); Pool (1965); Richardson (1964 in four individual and four group meetings throughout the school year.…”

Language in Psychotherapy

“…Apparently, little has been done to follow up this rather imaginative approach, however. Cannon (1964) was one of the few researchers to use those of Snyder's Affect Scales appearing in Snyder'S 1961163 revision. Cannon attempted to determine, as Snyder had, the similarity of personality of counselors and clients expressing positive attitudes toward each other, but the results were somewhat inconclusive.…”