Word: counselor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...capacity (400 clients a year) the center has operated with two dozen staff counselors (all Ph.D.s in psychology from the university faculty). Each counselor takes seven or eight clients a week for two or three 45-minute visits each. Most clients are so disturbed that they have difficulty carrying on in their occupations, though not so severely ill that they need hospitalization...
...this seems essential to therapy. To sense the client's anger, fear or confusion as if it were your own, yet without your own anger, fear or confusion getting bound up in it." When this condition has been established, Rogers feels, a single interpretive remark by the counselor can work wonders in clarification for the client. There is never any attempt at actual guidance; always the aim is to enable the client, through greater insight, to accept experiences as they...
...well does the method work? From elaborate follow-ups and independent appraisals, Rogers estimates that two out of ten cases get no better, two are moderately improved, six are. markedly improved. How long it takes depends not on the counselor but on the client: he ends therapy when he feels like it. During most of the center's twelve years, clients have averaged 40 to 50 interviews (at a cost, set largely by themselves, of $5 to $17 a session). Lately Rogers & Co. have been experimenting with short-term treatment: the client is told in advance that...
...convocation dance in Memorial Hall tomorrow night immediately following the Convocation, for Summer School students and their guests, will open the Summer School social program, Joan Hartman, Social Director and Counselor for Women, announced last night...
Sihanouk then appointed his longtime friend and adviser Sam Sary as special economic counselor to the government, with the personal rank of Prime Minister. But Sam Sary, even with his special rank, still approached the real Prime Minister, Sihanouk, only on his hands and knees. Sam Sary instituted a new economic policy of liberalized imports, but they, too, came under fire. Rival ministers whispered in Sihanouk's ear that Sam Sary was being paid off by Chinese merchants, accused him of accepting diamond-studded platinum wristwatches and other bribes...