The Nature of Preference

The Relationship Between Holland Types Preferences for Career Counseling

“…Much has been written concerning the interaction between client preferences for counseling and counseling strategies (Grantham & Gordon, 1986;Hardin, Subich, & Holvey, 1988;Tinsley, Brown, de St. Aubin, & Lucek, 1984). It is acknowledged that clients vary in degree and kind with regard to the preferences and expectations they bring to the counseling relationship (Hardin & Yanico, 1983).…”

“…It is acknowledged that clients vary in degree and kind with regard to the preferences and expectations they bring to the counseling relationship (Hardin & Yanico, 1983). Furthermore, it has been suggested that client preferences must be accounted for as a major independent variable influencing the outcome of counseling (Cheatham & Patrick, 1987;Goldstein, 1962;Grantham & Gordon, 1986;Lyddon, 1989). While considerable attention has been given to the influence of client preferences upon the counseling experience in general, less attention has been given to the role of client preferences within the context of career counseling.…”

Perceived characteristics of the career counselor and intentions of consulting in two european countries

“…De nombreux articles similaires se sont intéressés, ces dernières années, à l'effet, dans la relation d'aide, des catégories sociales perçues et les nombreuses données recueillies sur cette question n'ont pas permis de voir émerger un modèle universel s'appliquant à tous les contextes de la relation d'aide, comme le montre le caractère touffu et parfois contradictoire des observations relevées dans leur revue de questions de Heppner et Claiborn (1989). Néanmoins, l'idée selon laquelle le client développerait une attitude « prospective » (Grantham & Gordon, 1986) est probable, cette prospection visant à comparer à l'existant un schéma idéal du professionnel et de l'intervention et à s'engager dans la relation d'aide en estimant un degré de concordance entre les deux produits.…”

Credibility clusters, preferences, and helpfulness beliefs for specific forms of psychotherapy

“…Given the placebo potential implied, the credibility of a treatment to an individual patient, his or her expectations and hopes with that treatment, his or her preferences for it, and his or her beliefs about what might be beneficial in a treatment should be an important group of common factors to explore in relation to therapeutic alliance and outcome. One problem about this group of concepts is the definitional confusion among them (Grantham & Gordon, 1986). Thus, for example, terms such as acceptability, predilection, credibility, perceived helpfulness, outcome expectations, and preferences have all been used in research that, superficially at least, seems to deal more or less with the same phenomenon, whether a person or a patient believes a certain treatment is the most reasonable or suitable option for him or her and would choose accordingly if given a choice.…”