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Decision Workshops for the Improvement of Decision‐Making Skills and Confidence
Author(s) -
MANN LEON,
BESWICK GERY,
ALLOUACHE PIERRE,
IVEY MARY
Publication year - 1989
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.1556-6676.1989.tb02122.x
Subject(s) - session (web analytics) , psychology , decision aids , clinical decision making , coping (psychology) , medical education , applied psychology , medicine , clinical psychology , computer science , family medicine , alternative medicine , pathology , world wide web
This article describes the development and evaluation of a workshop program to help people become more confident and effective as decision makers. The workshops, based on conflict theory, consisted of five 2‐hour sessions, in which participants learned about the major decisional coping patterns and the critical steps of decision making. Participants also practiced decision‐making skills and learned how to use decisional balance sheets, future diaries, and other aids to vigilant decision making. The 76 participants were classified as “problem clients” (N = 44, “learners” (N = 30), and “others” (N = 2). A follow‐up questionnaire administered 3 months after the final session revealed that the workshops had promoted increased confidence in decision making and less reported use of maladaptive patterns of decision making.