The Personality of the Counselor

The Counselor Is a Super‐sponge

“…While intelligence is a significant part of the personality, studies seem to indicate that there is a low correlation between academic achievement and effective counseling. Polrnantier (1966) asks that the counselor "possess verbal and quantitative abilities sufficient to think, reason, and solve problems with logic and perception, as well as to discover such problems through intelligent inquiry. "…”

Effects of Counselor Trainees' Personality and Philosophy and of Client Type on Interview Dynamics

“…For a t least a q u a r t e r of a century r e s e a r c h h a s attempted t o i d e n t i f y determinants of counselors' i n t e r v i e w behavior. F a c t o r s hypothesized t o be i n f l u e n t i a l i n c l u d e counselor personali t y (Polmantier 1947), counselor experience ( F i e d l e r 1950), counselor p e r c e p t i o n (Combs & Soper 1963), counselor t h e o r e t i c a l commitment (Zimmer & Pepyne 1971), c l i e n t type (Bandura, Lipsher & Miller 1960), and combinations of f a c t o r s , such a s counselor p e r s o n a l i t y and experience and c l i e n t t y p e (Bohn 1965).…”