Changes in Altruistic Orientations and Theory Preferences of Beginning Counselors

While researching clients "from stem to stern" to see what effects participation in counseling may have upon the non-professional member of the encounter, the field of counseling appears to have ignored the possibility that the "other party," the counselor, may alter his behavior in some way as a result of counseling relationships. In a modest approach to this question, the author worked with 252 new counselor graduates entering their first professional experience. It was found that certain counselors tend to become more altruistic in their interpersonal orientations during their first year in the field. At the same time, however, the new counselors not only select a counseling theory which is considerably more directive than they believe their teachers would support, but they become even more directive in theory preference during their initial year of experience. The need for more detailed studies of the professional member of the counseling relationship appears obvious

Counselor education · Directive · Field (mathematics) · Higher education · Interpersonal communication · Political science · Preference · Stern · Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology · Counseling Practices and Supervision · Psychology · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications · Social Psychology

• Some Reactions to Zifferblatt and a Report of a Practical Attempt at the Development and Evaluation of a Counselor Education Model

  Open Access•Donald H Blocher, Patricia L Wolleat•The Counseling Psychologist•1972

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