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A Client Perspective on Counselor Disclosure (Brief Report)
Author(s) -
HENDRICK SUSAN S.
Publication year - 1990
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.1556-6676.1990.tb01483.x
Subject(s) - perspective (graphical) , self disclosure , psychology , sample (material) , scale (ratio) , applied psychology , medical education , social psychology , medicine , computer science , chemistry , physics , chromatography , quantum mechanics , artificial intelligence
Disclosure by counselors and therapists to clients may be most useful when it is desired by clients. This study sought to explore the amounts and types of disclosures desired by actual clients and compared these to responses generated by an undergraduate student sample. The primary instrument employed was the Counselor Disclosure Scale, a newly developed measure assessing amount of disclosure desired by clients or potential clients. The results indicated virtually no differences in disclosure preferences between undergraduate and client participants. Implications of these findings for counseling practice are discussed.