Building on an Empirical Foundation: Strategies to Enhance Good Practice

Reviews of the research literature on outcomes in counseling agree that counseling works. It is also possible to use research to identify strategies for increasing the probability of successful counseling. Such strategies include careful assessment of the client, matching the client and counselor on...

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Published in:Journal of counseling and development 1996-07, Vol.74 (6), p.609-615
Main Authors: Nelson, Mary Lee, Neufeldt, Susan Allstetter
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Analysis
Attention Deficit Disorders
College Students
Counseling
Counseling Effectiveness
Counseling Psychology
Counseling Techniques
Counselling
Counselor and client
Counselor Characteristics
Counselor Client Relationship
Counselor-client relations
Counselors
Demographics
Depression (Psychology)
Epistemology
Family Characteristics
Fear & phobias
Helping Relationship
Marital Status
Mental Disorders
Mental Health Programs
Modeling (Psychology)
Outcome Oriented Evaluation
Outcomes
Outcomes of Treatment
Parents & parenting
Pathology
Personality Problems
Practice
Problem solving
Productivity
Professionals
Psychotherapy
Relevance
Resistance (Psychology)
Students
Test Anxiety
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Summary:Reviews of the research literature on outcomes in counseling agree that counseling works. It is also possible to use research to identify strategies for increasing the probability of successful counseling. Such strategies include careful assessment of the client, matching the client and counselor on demographic and attitudinal variables, and maintaining a productive working alliance through open disclosure to the client of the counselor's background and procedures, inquiry into the client's experience of counseling process, and management of client resistance.
ISSN:0748-9633
1556-6676
DOI:10.1002/j.1556-6676.1996.tb02300.x