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What Client Behaviors Make Counselors Angry? An Exploratory Study
Author(s) -
FREMONT SUZANNE,
ANDERSON WAYNE
Publication year - 1986
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.1556-6676.1986.tb01233.x
Subject(s) - anger , feeling , psychology , resistance (ecology) , social psychology , exploratory research , dynamics (music) , applied psychology , pedagogy , sociology , ecology , anthropology , biology
Counselors may feel anger when clients do not behave according to their expectations of what is a good client. Client resistance, client impositions, verbal attacks on the counselor, and overinvolvement by the counselor in client dynamics seem to be relatively common occurrences that annoy counselors. Possible counselor responses to these feelings are discussed.