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A Discriminant Analysis of Gender and Counselor Professional Identity Development
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Healey, Amanda C.; Hays, Danica G. – Journal of Counseling & Development, 2012
This quantitative study examined professional identity development and orientation for 489 counseling practitioners, educators, and trainees as predicted by participant-identified sex and engagement in professional activities. Differences between male and female participants regarding aspects of professional identity were evaluated. Discriminant…
Descriptors: Discriminant Analysis, Gender Differences, Professional Development, Professional Identity
Clinical Judgment in Case Conceptualization and Treatment Planning across Mental Health Disciplines.
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Falvey, Janet E. – Journal of Counseling & Development, 2001
Compares clinical judgment on case conceptualization and treatment planning tasks among psychologists, mental health counselors, and social workers using Clinical Treatment Planning Simulations depicting anxiety and affective disorders. Orientation and work setting did not significantly influence judgment; experience exerted a modest curvilinear…
Descriptors: Counselor Evaluation, Counselor Performance, Counselors, Mental Health Workers
Assessing the Quality of Counseling Services: Developing Accountable Helping Systems.
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Steenbarger, Brett N.; Smith, H. Bret – Journal of Counseling & Development, 1996
Reviews dimensions of quality and ways of assessing these in counseling settings, with particular emphasis on the development of ongoing programs of quality improvement. Programs are described as mechanisms for science-practice integration within counseling settings, providing decision-support tools for triage, treatment planning, and the…
Descriptors: Accountability, Counseling Effectiveness, Counseling Psychology, Counseling Services
Nine Experts Describe the Essence of Rational-Emotive Therapy while Standing on One Foot.
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Weinrach, Stephen G. – Journal of Counseling & Development, 1996
Determined extent of agreement among a panel of nine rational-emotive therapy (RET) experts about essence of RET. Responses were categorized as either general cognitive behavior therapy (CBT) or RET-specific. A case can be made for subsuming many aspects of CBT under RET because of associated origins of CBT and RET. (FC)
Descriptors: Behavior Modification, Cognitive Restructuring, Counseling Theories, Counselor Evaluation
Testing Models of Counselor Development with a Measure of Counseling Self-Efficacy.
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Melchert, Timothy P.; And Others – Journal of Counseling & Development, 1996
Developed a counseling self-efficacy instrument in order to examine change in counselors across a broad range of training and experience. Self-efficacy theory and models of counselor development make similar predictions about increases in counseling self-efficacy due to clinical training and experience. Results showed strong reliability and…
Descriptors: Counseling Psychology, Counselor Attitudes, Counselor Evaluation, Counselor Performance
Icelandic and American Students' Expectations about Counseling.
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Aegisdottir, Stefania; Gerstein, Lawrence H. – Journal of Counseling & Development, 2000
The Expectations about Counseling-Brief Form was administered to 261 Icelandic and 225 American undergraduates. Results of a multivariate analysis of covariance reveal that Icelanders had higher expectations about counselor expertise than did Americans. Results are discussed in terms of counselor roles and functions and the role of help seeking in…
Descriptors: Counseling, Counselor Evaluation, Counselor Role, Cross Cultural Studies
Effects of Role Expectations on Clients' Perceptions of Disclosing and Nondisclosing Counselors.
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Peca-Baker, Theresa A.; Friedlander, Myrna L. – Journal of Counseling & Development, 1987
Female college students (N=81) were led to believe either that a counselor would or would not self-disclose, or were given no expectation regarding self-disclosure. Subjects then listened to audiotapes in which counselor did or did not reveal personal information. Results showed that disclosing counselor was viewed more favorably than…
Descriptors: College Students, Congruence (Psychology), Counseling Techniques, Counselor Characteristics