Counselor-client working alliance in career counseling: Its relationship to significant process events and micro/macro outcomes

The relationship of working alliance to significant process events and to the micro-(session impact) and macro-(treatment effectiveness) outcomes of individual career counseling is detected in this study.The subjects of the study were twenty college freshmen who were undecided on what course to purs...

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Main Author: Suba, Elizabeth Sinogaya
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spelling oai:animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph:etd_doctoral-17612021-05-11T06:29:54Z Counselor-client working alliance in career counseling: Its relationship to significant process events and micro/macro outcomes Suba, Elizabeth Sinogaya The relationship of working alliance to significant process events and to the micro-(session impact) and macro-(treatment effectiveness) outcomes of individual career counseling is detected in this study.The subjects of the study were twenty college freshmen who were undecided on what course to pursue. They manifested a low career maturity level. Five counselors participated in the study. Each counselor met four clients in three sessions that lasted for 40-50 minutes.Treatment involved individual career counseling based on the models of Brown and Brooks (1991), and McDaniels and Gysbers (1992). Immediately after each session, participants filled out the Working Alliance Inventory (WAI) and the Significant Events Questionnaire as process measures and the Session Evaluation Questionnaire of micro-outcome measure. Counseling effectiveness (macro-outcome) was assessed by the Career Exploratory Inventory.The results indicated that the quality of the working alliance between the counseling interactants was generally defined by the component of Bond for counselors, and Task for clients. As hypothesized, across session differences were found in the participants' ratings of working alliance as well as of session impact. However, significant associations between the participants' rating were found only for the Depth dimension of session impact, i.e., during the latter part of the therapy. No significant associations were found between the participants' rating of working alliance. Session-by-session correlations between working alliance and session impact showed significant results. The counselors' ratings indicated greater association while the middle stage of counseling reflected highest associations for both groups. The effectiveness of counseling was reflected in the significant increase in career maturity levels and high degree of goal attainment of clients at posttest. The hypothesized relationship, however, between first session working alliance and counseling outcome was not supported. The results also suggested that the significant events remembered by the counseling interactants after the session tended to relate to the strength of their alliances.The findings of this study suggested the relevance of counselor-client working alliance and significant events in counseling as viable indices of the therapeutic changes that occur within sessions over the course of treatment. Likewise, it showed some evidence on the reciprocal relationship between working alliance and session impact, and how the former may influence counseling effectiveness. 1996-01-01T08:00:00Z text https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/etd_doctoral/762 Dissertations English Animo Repository Counselor and client Vocational guidance Counseling Interpersonal relations Counseling
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topic Counselor and client
Vocational guidance
Counseling
Interpersonal relations
Counseling
spellingShingle Counselor and client
Vocational guidance
Counseling
Interpersonal relations
Counseling
Suba, Elizabeth Sinogaya
Counselor-client working alliance in career counseling: Its relationship to significant process events and micro/macro outcomes
description The relationship of working alliance to significant process events and to the micro-(session impact) and macro-(treatment effectiveness) outcomes of individual career counseling is detected in this study.The subjects of the study were twenty college freshmen who were undecided on what course to pursue. They manifested a low career maturity level. Five counselors participated in the study. Each counselor met four clients in three sessions that lasted for 40-50 minutes.Treatment involved individual career counseling based on the models of Brown and Brooks (1991), and McDaniels and Gysbers (1992). Immediately after each session, participants filled out the Working Alliance Inventory (WAI) and the Significant Events Questionnaire as process measures and the Session Evaluation Questionnaire of micro-outcome measure. Counseling effectiveness (macro-outcome) was assessed by the Career Exploratory Inventory.The results indicated that the quality of the working alliance between the counseling interactants was generally defined by the component of Bond for counselors, and Task for clients. As hypothesized, across session differences were found in the participants' ratings of working alliance as well as of session impact. However, significant associations between the participants' rating were found only for the Depth dimension of session impact, i.e., during the latter part of the therapy. No significant associations were found between the participants' rating of working alliance. Session-by-session correlations between working alliance and session impact showed significant results. The counselors' ratings indicated greater association while the middle stage of counseling reflected highest associations for both groups. The effectiveness of counseling was reflected in the significant increase in career maturity levels and high degree of goal attainment of clients at posttest. The hypothesized relationship, however, between first session working alliance and counseling outcome was not supported. The results also suggested that the significant events remembered by the counseling interactants after the session tended to relate to the strength of their alliances.The findings of this study suggested the relevance of counselor-client working alliance and significant events in counseling as viable indices of the therapeutic changes that occur within sessions over the course of treatment. Likewise, it showed some evidence on the reciprocal relationship between working alliance and session impact, and how the former may influence counseling effectiveness.
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author Suba, Elizabeth Sinogaya
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title Counselor-client working alliance in career counseling: Its relationship to significant process events and micro/macro outcomes
title_short Counselor-client working alliance in career counseling: Its relationship to significant process events and micro/macro outcomes
title_full Counselor-client working alliance in career counseling: Its relationship to significant process events and micro/macro outcomes
title_fullStr Counselor-client working alliance in career counseling: Its relationship to significant process events and micro/macro outcomes
title_full_unstemmed Counselor-client working alliance in career counseling: Its relationship to significant process events and micro/macro outcomes
title_sort counselor-client working alliance in career counseling: its relationship to significant process events and micro/macro outcomes
publisher Animo Repository
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