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Measuring Clients' Cognitive Competence in Research on Counseling
Author(s) -
MARTIN JACK
Publication year - 1985
Publication title -
journal of counseling and development
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.805
H-Index - 78
eISSN - 1556-6676
pISSN - 0748-9633
DOI - 10.1002/j.1556-6676.1985.tb00680.x
Subject(s) - cognition , competence (human resources) , psychology , variety (cybernetics) , triangulation , applied psychology , psychotherapist , social psychology , computer science , artificial intelligence , psychiatry , cartography , geography
Counseling is defined as an activity concerned with the development of cognitive competence in clients. As part of the overall movement in research on counseling toward methodological pluralism and triangulation, it is suggested that researchers of counseling effects adopt methods of processing and representing clients' cognitive structures. Such methods can help to capture some of the uniquely rich personal and subjective aspects of the change process in counseling. A variety of methods for accessing and representing cognitive structures are presented, some of which are illustrated in a brief case report. The advantages and limitations of the methods presented are discussed.