Effects of an analogue counselor\u27s religious or financial self-disclosure and observer characteristics on therapeutic processes

The literature on counselor self-disclosure does not adequately address the questions of what, when, why, how, and to whom counselors should disclose. Because various theoretical orientations have traditionally provided different perspectives on therapist self-disclosure, counselors lack both research-based guidelines for self-disclosing in the research literature, as well as consistent suggestions from theory. Likewise, the ethical implications of counselor self-disclosures punctuate the importance of addressing these questions in order to provide maximally effective treatment while respecting clients\u27 worldviews. Nowhere is the importance of providing counselors theoretically-consistent, research-based, and ethically-responsible guidance in self-disclosure more pronounced than in multicultural counseling. Whether of racial/ethnic, sexual, religious/spiritual, or other form of diversity, there exists considerable need for guidance in counselor cultural self-disclosures. This two-part counseling analogue study built upon Young\u27s (2007) investigation of the impact of therapist religious disclosures on ratings of therapeutic processes. Recruited from Iowa State and Bethel Universities, along with Google or Yahoo online groups, 673 participants were exposed to one of four, sex-specific video-stimuli which depicted the simulated counselor making one of the following: a content-congruent financial self-disclosure, a content-incongruent religious self-disclosure, a content-incongruent neutral control response, or a content-congruent religious self-disclosure. When participants\u27 responses were analyzed via planned comparisons in ANCOVA, the results revealed counselor disclosures were generally rated higher than the neutral control. Furthermore, the findings clarified that those disclosures congruent with client-initiated content were viewed more positively than the neutral response and the incongruent religious disclosure. Planned comparisons revealed that the congruent religious disclosure fostered the highest level of working alliance when compared to the other conditions. Additional findings included: Catholics rating the counselor\u27s empathy higher than Protestants when religion was discussed, sex differences in working alliance scores, and support for the importance of considering client/participant levels of religiosity, spirituality, empathy, and previous counseling experiences when rating therapeutic processes. The findings indicated that counselor self-disclosure can have a positive impact on ratings of the counselor and the therapeutic relationship. Implications for research, training, and counseling are discussed

Robert Burns to Maria Riddell, a lost Burns manuscript and a Victorian facsimile

Reviews the textual history of Robert Burns's brief letter to Maria Riddell, in spring 1795, in Dumfries, mentioning the miniature portrait by Alexander Reid; notes that the manuscript, owned in the late 19th century by Dr Thomas C.S. Corry of Belfast, and later by John Gribbel of Philadelphia, cannot now be located; and describes and illustrates the facsimile made of it in 1864 for Vincent Brooks in the Autographic Mirror, now the only source of this letter manuscript available to the Glasgow editorial team for the forthcoming Oxford edition of Burns's Correspondence

Missouri Representative Farms Financial Projections

This document presents an estimate of financial risk on individual Missouri representative farms in future years.This material is based upon work supported by Cooperative States Research Education and Extension Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, under Agreement No. 00-34228-8988 and Missouri Department of Agriculture proposal #00112091

FAPRI 2001 U.S. Baseline Briefing Book

This document is a baseline projection for the agricultural economy using a very specific set of assumptions. The baseline serves as a benchmark for analyzing alternative policies.Material in this publication is based upon work supported by the Cooperative State Research, Education and Extension Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, under Agreement No. 99-34149-7373

FAPRI 2001 Outlook for Missouri Agriculture

Presented to the Missouri House of Representatives, Committee on Agriculture, Jefferson City, MO, by Gary Adams and Scott Brown.This report presents a summary of ten-year baseline projections for Missouri agricultural markets

Minerals and potentially toxic elements in corn silage from tropical and subtropical Brazil

Copyright: This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Our aim was to assess the mineral composition of corn silages produced in four states of Brazil: Goiás, Minas Gerais, Paraná, and Santa Catarina. In total, seventy-three samples were analyzed. Total element content was extracted by HNO3 and H2O2 microwave-assisted digestion, and inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry (ICP-MS) was used to determine concentration. Of the 31 elements analyzed (Ag, Al, As, B, Ba, Be, Ca, Cd, Co, Cr, Cs, Cu, Fe, K, Li, Mg, Mn, Mo, Na, Ni, P, Pb, Rb, S, Se, Sr, Ti, Tl, U, V, and Zn), 21 had concentrations above equipment detection limits. No elements reached the maximum tolerable concentration, but concentrations of Ca (0.14-0.15%), Cu (3.4-5.6 mg kg-1), P (0.13-0.16%), S (0.06-0.08%), and Zn (13-19 mg kg-1) were below the adequate concentration for good nutritional balance. The strong and consistent correlation observed between Fe and Ti in silage samples indicated contamination by soil. Mean concentrations of Cu, Mn, Mo, P, S, and Zn were different among states, and canonic analyses successfully discriminate samples according to their state of origin. Minerals from corn silage should be considered when formulating balanced cattle diets. To ensure silage quality, farmers must adopt strategies that reduce contamination by soil during the ensiling process

Banner News

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Surfacing Show Card

Show card for exhibition Surfacing. February 1-28, 2001.https://digitalcommons.udallas.edu/surfacing/1000/thumbnail.jp

FAPRI 2000 U.S. Agricultural Outlook

Crop Production/Industries, Livestock Production/Industries,