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Counselor Preferences of Clients Entering a Counselor-Training Clinic.
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Strohmer, Douglas C.; Leiere, Stephen J.; Hotard, Jacqueline M.; Stuckey, Rebecca I. – Rehabilitation Counseling Bulletin, 2003
Examines the expressed counselor preferences of individuals entering a community-based counselor-training clinic. Clients were asked whether they had a preference regarding counselor age, disability status, education, gender, and race. Of these characteristics, only for gender did even a moderate number of clients (30%) express a preference.…
Descriptors: Client Attitudes (Human Services), Counselor Characteristics, Counselor Client Relationship, Counselor Training
Clinical Judgmental Biases: The Moderating Roles of Counselor Cognitive Complexity and Counselor Client Preferences.
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Spengler, Paul M.; Strohmer, Douglas C. – Journal of Counseling Psychology, 1994
Study of 119 counseling psychologists revealed that counselor individual differences in cognitive complexity, but not preferences for client problems, moderated cognitive processes that lead to bias in clinical judgment. Counseling psychologists with lower cognitive complexity were more likely to form biased clinical judgments than were those with…
Descriptors: Bias, Clinical Diagnosis, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Style
Hypothesis Formation and Testing in Clinical Judgment.
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Strohmer, Douglas C.; And Others – Journal of Counseling Psychology, 1983
Examined the influence of cognitive complexity and client observation on the quality of clinical hypotheses counselors develop and the number of questions generated to test them. Results showed no effect of these variables on hypothesis quality; but a significant interaction between client observations on the number of questions developed. (LLL)
Descriptors: Clinical Diagnosis, Counselor Characteristics, Evaluation Criteria, Graduate Students
Counselor Preferences of Disabled and Disadvantaged College Students for Personal Versus Vocational Concerns.
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Strohmer, Douglas C.; Phillips, Susan D. – Rehabilitation Counseling Bulletin, 1985
Examined the preferred counselor characteristics of two groups: students with disabilities and students who were educationally and economically disadvantaged. Counselor characteristics were examined in terms of how preferences are differentially expressed for help with personal-social versus vocational-educational concerns. (Author/BH)
Descriptors: Career Counseling, College Students, Counselor Characteristics, Disabilities
Effects of Counselor Disability Status on Disabled Subjects' Perceptions of Counselor Attractiveness and Expertness.
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Strohmer, Douglas C.; Biggs, Donald A. – Journal of Counseling Psychology, 1983
Studied the influence of client-counselor group membership similarity, counselor reputation cues, and attending behavior on disabled subject's perceptions. Physically disabled adults (N=40) viewed a series of vignettes and rated counselor expertness and attractiveness. Results do not support the belief that client-counselor group membership…
Descriptors: Adults, Behavior Patterns, Counselor Characteristics, Counselor Client Relationship
The Importance of Counselor Disability Status: What We Know and What We Need to Know.
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Strohmer, Douglas C.; And Others – Rehabilitation Counseling Bulletin, 1996
Reviews research that examined the effects of counselor disability status on counselor preferences and perceptions (expertness, attractiveness, and trustworthiness) as expressed by individuals with and without a disability. Results show that counselor disability status had a limited effect on perceptions and preferences, which were moderated by…
Descriptors: Client Attitudes (Human Services), Counseling Effectiveness, Counselor Characteristics, Counselor Client Relationship
Cognitive Style and Synchrony in Measures of Anxiety.
Strohmer, Douglas C.; And Others – Measurement and Evaluation in Guidance, 1983
Examined the extent to which a cognitive style variable, integrative complexity, was related to synchrony between behavioral and self-report measures of anxiety in counseling students (N=26). During a therapy analogue two measures of anxiety were taken. Results indicated a substantial dependence of synchrony/desynchrony on cognitive style.…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Arousal Patterns, Cognitive Style, Counselor Characteristics