A behaviour category instrument for analysing counselling interactions

This is the first of two papers describing work based on the assumptions that skilled behaviour produced by counsellors can be (a) identified, (b) specified in detail, and (c) produced by training. A behaviour category instrument applicable to counselling interactions was developed, using techniques which had already been applied successfully to the analysis of interpersonal skills in an industrial setting. Client-centred, rational-emotive and gestalt approaches to counselling were initially selected for analysis, on the basis that they represented radically different approaches, that they were relatively well-defined, and that there was material available for analysis from skilled practitioners. The analyses show that the different approaches result in characteristically different behaviour profiles. The results are considered in terms of their potential contribution to outcome research and to training procedures.     

pink slip: Chronicling a job loss

The author describes her 5‐month job search, decision to accept a job that required her to relocate, and subsequent firing from that job. Some of the emotional effects of these events are also discussed.     

Educational Trends for Expanding Women's Occupational Lives

Institutional changes are described which would facilitate the expansion of women's occupational lives. Part I reviews educational trends in schools, focusing on legislation and other activities to eliminate sex discrimination in federally supported educational institutions. Part II discusses current trends to interface education and work, and proposes a transitional work group model which incorporates feminist values and legitimizes the work place as a place for learning. Part III discusses trends towards participatory democracy and asserts that the training of women to use new technologies in communications and computers will increase their power to shape public policy. The conclusion points to the necessity for compensatory and anticipatory measures to ensure the representation of all groups of women in decision-making environments.     

Stimulus mislocalization depends on spatial frequency.

It was previously reported that briefly presented peripheral stimuli are perceived closer to fixation than continuously presented stimuli at the same eccentricity; this effect has, however, not proved consistently replicable. In this study it was investigated whether the misperception of location might depend upon the spatial frequency content of the stimulus. Spatial-frequency-filtered vertical bars were displayed briefly and their locations were judged relative to continuously visible comparison spots. For monocular stimuli, a significant foveopetal mislocalization of the bar was obtained that increased in size as spatial frequency was lowered. Even larger mislocalizations were obtained for dichoptically presented horizontally disparate pairs of bars, and this effect also increased at low spatial frequencies. Possible underlying mechanisms are discussed, and spatial frequency is suggested to have been the confounding factor in previous studies.