This cross-sectional study investigated predictors of research productivity and science-related career goals in a sample of 267 doctoral students (representing a response rate of 5S%) from 15 randomly selected APA-accredited counseling psychology doctoral programs. A structural equation modeling procedure revealed that career goals and research productivity could be predicted by Holland personality type, perceptions of the research training environment, interest in research, and research self-efficacy. Students' gender and year in the doctoral program also contributed to this causal model as additional predictor variables, providing a very good fit to the data The present findings contribute to theories of research training by presenting a comprehensive examination of the major factors previously investigated in the literature as predictors of research productivity and science-related career goals within the context of a structural equation model

The purpose of this experiment was to provide an empirical comparison of two dissonance-based eating disorder prevention paradigms and a no-treatment control condition. Asymptomatic and symptomatic participants (N = 155) were randomly assigned to one of three experimental conditions: high level dissonance, low level dissonance, or no-treatment control. Group x symptomatic status interactions, main effects, and pairwise comparisons were examined to assess differences in eating disorder attitudes and behaviors at postintervention and 4-week follow-up. Participants in the high level condition displayed fewer eating disorder attitudes and behaviors compared to participants in the low level condition at postintervention. Eating disorder attitudes and behaviors were not significantly lower among participants in either intervention condition compared to no-treatment control participants.

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Subjects were given artificial psychological test results that were discrepant in either positive or negative directions with their self-reports on the traits purportedly measured. Test results were given by a counselor identified as either a PhD or a counseling practicum student. Amount of discrepancy between test results and self-report significantly affected the amount of change in self-report of subjects in both positive and negative feedback conditions. Professional level of the interpreter affected change in self-report for all groups receiving positive or self-enhancing results and for subjects receiving negative results highly discrepant with their self-report.Research on variables affecting clients' acceptance of test results has focused primarily on the results of use of various techniques of interpreting test results (see Tyler, 1969). Investigations by social psychologists of the effects of communicator credibility and of feedback of information discrepant with existing self-concepts have become increasingly related to test interpretation (Bergin, 1962;Johnson, 1966). The purpose of the present study was to investigfltq frpw counselor qrfidihility q.nri teat, rasjilts discrepant with clients' self-cqncepts affect clients' acceptance of the test results.Both Bergin and Johnson have shown that credibility of the communicator clearly influences change in self-report of subjects in response to feedback from psychological measures. However, neither study used professional counselors. Bergin contrasted a "research director" with a "high school student" ; Johnson had students rate the credibility of a senior psychology major as a test interpreter. The question of counselor credibility becomes important to the extent that

Emerging trends online, and especially in social network sites, may be creating an environment for psychologists where transparency is increasingly unavoidable. Thus, most psychological practitioners may now have to engage in small world ethics-ethical acuity that requires an application of ethical principles to the increasingly interconnected and transparent world that is burgeoning from online culture. Fortunately, rural psychology has already provided a helpful roadmap for how to demonstrate flexibility and prudence when applying ethical principles in cultures with great transparency. Therefore, professional psychologists and psychologists in training may need to draw upon this wisdom when conceptualizing best online practices for the field that relate to social networking and personal online activity. To remain relevant, psychotherapy must adapt to the new digital culture but maintain its identity as a profession guided by its historical values and ethical principles.