An Analysis of Significant Events in Counseling

Wilcox-Matthew, Lori; Ottens, A.F.; Minor, Carole W.

doi:10.1002/j.1556-6676.1997.tb02343.x

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“…The client's insight has consistently been reported to contribute to the effectiveness of counseling by a host of research (e.g., Elliott, 1985;Wilcox-Matthew, Ottens, & Minor, 1997). The occurrence of insight seemed to have been facilitated by the increase in the client's experiencing responses in the most effective sessions, which is consistent with Hill's assumpfion (2004) that the prerequisite for gaining insight is the active exploration of feelings, thoughts, and behaviors.…”

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Comparative Analysis of A Client's Verbal Responses in Counseling Sessions: Quantitative Case Study

Lee

2011

Psychol Rep

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This study investigated how the in-session change in a client's verbal behavior might influence the effectiveness of counseling sessions. 10 sessions of counseling with a male undergraduate suffering from depressive mood were conducted by a humanistically oriented counselor. The two most effective and the two least effective sessions were identified according to the client's evaluation of the effectiveness of counseling sessions. Results indicated that over the three segments of the most effective sessions, the client gradually increased responses that indicated exploration of his own emotions, thoughts, and behaviors. By contrast, the client continued talking mainly about past events in a storytelling manner throughout the least effective sessions.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

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Comparative Analysis of A Client's Verbal Responses in Counseling Sessions: Quantitative Case Study

Lee

2011

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“…Manthei, 2007;Wilcox-Matthew, 1997). This study has shown that some participants may look back over two decades or more and still portray a therapeutic experience as life-changing.…”

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Narratives of therapeutic art-making in the context of marital breakdown: older women reflect on a significant mid-life experience

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Lim

Prior

2008

Counselling Psychology Quarterly

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and aspects of the narratives that conveyed present-day identities and artistic endeavors. The narratives revealed the complexity of the journey through marital breakdown and depression into health, and showed that therapeutic art-making could best be understood, not as a stand-alone experience, but as given meaning within the context of wider personal and social resources. Participants looked back on therapeutic art-making that occurred two decades earlier and still described this as a significant turning point in their personal development. Art as an adjunct to counselling/therapy was not only symbolically self-expressive but provided opportunity for decision-making, agency and a reformulated self-image.Key words: art, mid-life, divorce, narrative 3 Narratives of therapeutic art-making in the context of marital breakdown: older women reflect on a significant mid-life experience.

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“…Insight indicates that clients understand themes, patterns, or causal relationships in their or others' behaviors (Hill, 1986). Researchers (Elliott, 1985;Wilcox-Matthew, Ottens, & Minor, 1997;Paulson, Truscott, & Stuart, 1999) have consistently reported that clients perceive insight to be one of the helpful effects of counseling. Discussion of plans rarely occurred in the sessions (about 1 % of the clients' total response modes).…”

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Clients' Response Modes and Session Outcome

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Nomura

2006

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This study examined clients' response modes in one-session counseling interviews with two counselors and 32 volunteer college students as clients. Sessions which yielded clients' higher ratings of helpfulness and satisfaction were associated with low proportions of clients' recounting, which involves clients providing statements on factual information in a storytelling style and high proportions of clients' response modes, which indicate an exploration of feelings, thoughts, and behaviors, insight into problems, and a problem-solving attitude. Thereafter, clients' response modes were examined in conjunction with counselors' interventions in the previous speaking turn using a sequential analysis. This analysis indicated that the occurrences of clients' response modes were not random but rather seemed to be associated with antecedent interventions by a counselor.

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An Analysis of Significant Events in Counseling

Cited by 32 publications

References 30 publications

Comparative Analysis of A Client's Verbal Responses in Counseling Sessions: Quantitative Case Study

Comparative Analysis of A Client's Verbal Responses in Counseling Sessions: Quantitative Case Study

Narratives of therapeutic art-making in the context of marital breakdown: older women reflect on a significant mid-life experience

Clients' Response Modes and Session Outcome

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