Need for approval and counseling outcomes

Abstract

The intent of this study was to determine the effects of a clients' need for approval on the outcomes of counseling. The expectation was that clients who have a high need for approval by others would cooperate more with the counseling process and would more often be successful in the sense of being rehabilitated. The Marlowe‐Crowne Social Desirability Scale was administered to 167 applicants at a state rehabilitation agency immediately after the initial interview. It was hypothesized that successfully rehabilitated clients would obtain significantly higher social desirability scores than those clients who were not successful. The results confirmed the hypothesis at the .01 level of significance.

A Practicum‐lnternship Model for Counselor Training

“…Significant people in the practicum and internship sequence, such as professors and agency supervisors, should be able to provide reinforcers to shape desirable counseling behavior. This assumption is supported by MacGuffie, Jorgensen, and Janzen (1970) who demonstrated that graduate social work students modeled after their field instructors.…”