Microcounseling and attending behavior: An approach to prepracticum counselor training.

Abstract

MicrocounBeling" is a video method of training counselors in basic skills of counseling within a short period of time. This research studies the effects of microcounseling training procedures upon 3 groups of beginning counselors. 3 different skills, "attending behavior," reflection of feeling, and summarization of feeling, were the focus of research. Central to all studies was attending behavior, which is the counseling skill of attending or listening to a client both verbally and nonverbally. These studies suggest that attending behavior and its related concepts may be described in behavioral terms meaningful to beginning counselors. Implications of the attending behavior and microcounseling frameworks are discussed.Teaching beginning counselors and therapists "how to counsel" is one of the more complex and challenging issues facing counseling psychology (Krumboltz, 1967;Matarazzo, Wiens, & Saslow, 1966;Wrenn, 1962). Most would agree that counselor training has not generally been efficient or 1 This research was supported by a grant from the Charles F. Kettering Foundation.

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