Implementing and Expanding on Carkhuff's Training Technology

Abstract

This article describes the implementation and expansion of Robert Carkhuff's Training Technology to maximize trainees' skill transfer to applied settings and to maximize their ability to integrate various theoretical orientations into their counseling repertoire. The article summarizes training outcomes and invites counselor educators to demonstrate the effectiveness of their training program by measuring their students' skill levels with actual clients in the field.

Predictors of Adopting Motivational Enhancement Therapy

“…Training. The training followed the Carkhuff Approach, which has extensive support for its effectiveness in instructing counselors, physicians, and numerous other professionals (Baumgarten & Roffers, 2003). (For a more detailed description of the training protocol, see Ager et al, 2005.…”

“…The change agent employed in this paper was a 2-day MET training followed 1 month later by a 4-h booster, where participants reviewed and sharpened their skills. The training model essentially followed the Carkhuff Approach, which has extensive support for its effectiveness in training counselors, physicians, and numerous other professionals (Baumgarten & Roffers, 2003). Based on pre-, post-and 4-month follow-up, subjective measures of MET knowledge, attitudes, MET use in practice, use of specific MET techniques, and responses to vignettes, this training was found to be effective in facilitating the adoption of this approach in counselors of substance abusing adolescents and/or incarcerated individuals (Ager et al, 2005).…”

Examining Conditions for Empathy in Counseling: An Exploratory Model

“…Next, behavioral empathy is the application of verbal and nonverbal responses that convey understanding to a client. Historically, behavioral empathy has been a strong focus in conceptualization and assessment of empathy (Baumgarten & Roffers, ; Egan, ; Truax & Carkhuff, ), as well as in counselor training, because it is more easily observed and concrete than other forms of empathy (Bohart & Greenberg, ; Clark, ; Stepien & Baernstein, ).…”

Interactive Training Model: Enhancing Beginning Counseling Student Development

“…Carkhuff's (2000) three-prong system of using a counselor, client, and observer rotation to teach essential skills still provides a practical system for ensuring skill attainment (Baumgarten & Roffers, 2003). Within this model, two students role-play as counselor and client, and a student observer facilitates debriefing and provides feedback to the student counselor.…”