One approach to improving counseling is to identify particular client goals and to develop treatments with specified objectives, counseling components, and outcome measures that meet those goals. Following this approach, 18 volunteer counselors, with and without formal training, applied a specified career counseling treatment to university undergraduates. Analysis of pretreatment and posttreatment outcome measures indicated that clients significantly increased their knowledge of career decision making and planning and their satisfaction with their career choices, but not their ability to solve career problems. Of the 18 counselors, 15 achieved 60% or greater adherence to the specified treatment components with at least one client. Client feedback indicated that the counseling was particularly helpful for improving self-awareness and decision making but that additional components may need to be added to improve information seeking and goal specification.
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