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Contributing Factors to Early Premature Termination at a College Counseling Center
Author(s) -
MARTIN GLEN A.,
McNAIR DAVID,
HIGHT WILLIAM
Publication year - 1988
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.1556-6676.1988.tb00856.x
Subject(s) - attractiveness , trustworthiness , psychology , center (category theory) , clinical psychology , medical education , family medicine , medicine , social psychology , chemistry , psychoanalysis , crystallography
The authors investigated the relationships between clients' early premature termination of counseling and ratings of their counselors' expertness, trustworthiness, and attractiveness and the extent to which clients believed that they were understood by their counselors. A follow‐up survey was conducted to assess the clients' reasons for terminating prematurely. Participants were 148 students who sought individual counseling at a university counseling center. The two groups did not differ on the variables investigated. Most of the participants who terminated prematurely reported that they did so because they did not have time for further sessions, did not need further sessions, or forgot their appointments.