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Effects of International Student Counselors' Broaching Statements about Cultural and Language Differences on Participants' Perceptions of the Counselors
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Choi, Gahee; Mallinckrodt, Brent; Richardson, John D. – Journal of Multicultural Counseling and Development, 2015
Undergraduates (N = 135) evaluated 1 of 4 simulated 1st counseling sessions. Two international counselors (Canadian and Korean) alternated between making or not making broaching statements about their language and cultural differences. Significant main effects for counselor nationality and interaction effects between counselor nationality and…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Student Attitudes, Counselors, Self Disclosure (Individuals)
Experienced Therapists' Approach to Psychotherapy for Adults with Attachment Avoidance or Attachment Anxiety
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Daly, Katherine D.; Mallinckrodt, Brent – Journal of Counseling Psychology, 2009
Interviews were conducted with therapists (N = 12) nominated by peers as especially effective in working with clients with adult interpersonal problems. Open-ended questions asked how these therapists would approach 2 adult clients described in brief vignettes as having high attachment avoidance or anxiety. A coding team used a grounded theory…
Descriptors: Grounded Theory, Intimacy, Attachment Behavior, Psychotherapy
Counselor Training Level and the Formation of the Psychotherapeutic Working Alliance.
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Mallinckrodt, Brent; Nelson, Mary Lee – Journal of Counseling Psychology, 1991
Investigated relation of training level to working alliance in 50 counselor-client dyads. Counselors were novices, advanced trainees, or experienced counselors. After three sessions, counselors and clients completed Working Alliance Inventory. Results revealed significant main effects for training level of counselor. Found no difference for bond…
Descriptors: Counselor Attitudes, Counselor Client Relationship, Counselor Training, Counselors
Effect of Disabled Counselors' Self-Disclosures on Client Perceptions of the Counselor.
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Mallinckrodt, Brent; Helms, Janet E. – Journal of Counseling Psychology, 1986
Results indicated that counselors in several of the disability conditions were rated as being significantly more expert and attractive than able-bodied counselors. Counselor self-disclosures did not have a clearly negative or positive effect on subjects' perceptions. (Author/BL)
Descriptors: Counseling Effectiveness, Counselor Characteristics, Counselor Client Relationship, Counselors
Session Impact, Working Alliance, and Treatment Outcome in Brief Counseling.
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Mallinckrodt, Brent – Journal of Counseling Psychology, 1993
Examined working alliance, session evaluations in brief counseling, and counseling outcome among 61 clients and student counselors from 41 dyads. Results indicated that session evaluations were significantly related to later alliance ratings, and positive alliance ratings predicted subsequent session evaluations. Both alliance and session…
Descriptors: College Students, Counselor Client Relationship, Counselor Training, Higher Education
Family Dysfunction, Alexithymia, and Client Attachment to Therapist.
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Mallinckrodt, Brent; King, Julie L.; Coble, Helen M. – Journal of Counseling Psychology, 1998
Alexithymia (difficulty differentiating affective states and expressing feelings, external reliance in decision-making) is studied as a possible mediator by which dysfunctional family environment in childhood affects adult clients' attachment to therapist (N=61). Fear of separation, parent/child role reversal, and marital conflict were associated…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Counseling, Counselor Client Relationship, Decision Making
Clients' Representations of Childhood Emotional Bonds with Parents, Social Support, and Formation of the Working Alliance.
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Mallinckrodt, Brent – Journal of Counseling Psychology, 1991
Collected survey data from 102 client-counselor dyads with regard to client and counselor third-session working alliance ratings, quality of clients' current social relationships, and clients' representations of care and overprotection in memories of childhood emotional bonds with parents. Social support was significant predictor of client-rated…
Descriptors: Background, Client Characteristics (Human Services), Counselor Client Relationship, Fathers
Attachment Patterns in the Psychotherapy Relationship: Development of the Client Attachment to Therapist Scale.
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Mallinckrodt, Brent; And Others – Journal of Counseling Psychology, 1995
Describes development of an instrument, the Client Attachment to Therapist Scale (CATS). CATS factors correlated in expected directions with survey measures of object relations, client-rated working alliance, social self-efficacy, and adult attachment. Cluster analysis revealed four types of client attachment. Discusses implications of attachment…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Counseling Psychology, Counselor Client Relationship, Evaluation Methods
Change in Working Alliance, Social Support, and Psychological Symptoms in Brief Therapy.
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Mallinckrodt, Brent – Journal of Counseling Psychology, 1996
Clients in brief therapy (N=34) completed measures of social support and psychological symptoms. Path analysis suggests that improvement in the working alliance was significantly related to improvement in social support and that improvement in social support was significantly related to symptom reduction. The working alliance appears indirectly…
Descriptors: Counseling Effectiveness, Counseling Psychology, Counselor Client Relationship, Interpersonal Relationship