Therapist interpersonal skills: process, outcome, methodological considerations, and recommendations for future research.

Empathy and Counseling Outcome: An Empirical and Conceptual Review:

Guidelines for research on Carkhuff's training model.

The present study examined the relationships between humor coping, health status, and life satisfaction among older residents of assisted living facilities. A structural equation model with latent variables was specified for the three variables. Health status was expected to directly affect humor coping and life satisfaction. Humor coping was hypothesized to have a direct association with life satisfaction and indirectly affect the relationship between health status and life satisfaction. Participants completed the Multidimensional Functional Assessment Questionnaire, Coping Humor Scale, and Life Satisfaction Index A. The relationships between health status and humor coping and health status and life satisfaction were statistically significant. Both the direct association of humor coping on life satisfaction and the intervening role between health status and life satisfaction were not supported. Humor as a coping strategy seems to be available to older adults who are in better health.

Humor coping, health status, and life satisfaction among older adults residing in assisted living facilities.

Multidimensional measures of therapist behavior as predictors of outcome.

Accurate empathy ratings: Some methodological considerations

Discussions of attitudes toward the disabled have suggested that counselor attitude toward disability may affect client rehabilitation outcome. The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship of counselor attitudes toward the disabled and client rehabilitation success. Counselors who held more positive attitudes toward the disabled experienced greater success than less positive counselors when working with clients perceived to have those disabilities most different from the able-bodied. Characteristics which differentiated the more and less positive attitude counselors are given. Discussion and implications of the findings are presented.

Jerold D. Bozarth

Papers

Accurate empathy ratings: Some methodological considerations

Counselor attitude toward disabled persons and client program completion: A pilot study.

Objective Ratings and Client Perceptions of Therapeutic Conditions with University Counseling Center Clients.

Facilitative management in rehabilitation counseling : a casebook