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Counselor Trainees' Self‐Statement Responses to Sexually and Physically Abused Clients, and Client Role Conflict
Author(s) -
Parisien Lynne S.,
Long Bonita C.
Publication year - 1994
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.1556-6676.1994.tb00939.x
Subject(s) - statement (logic) , psychology , sexual abuse , anxiety , clinical psychology , social psychology , suicide prevention , poison control , psychiatry , medicine , medical emergency , political science , law
Because sexual abuse issues present a threat to counselor trainees, the authors predicted that trainees who expected to counsel a sexually abused client would respond with an increase in anxiety and negative self‐statements. A total of 63 female trainees were assessed after viewing a videotape of a client reporting sexual abuse, physical abuse, or role conflict. Results indicated that, counter to predictions, the trainees who expected to counsel the sexually abused client increased their positive self‐statements. Schwartz's (1986) States‐of‐Mind model was applied to the self‐statement ratios, and, according to the model, trainees were unrealistically optimistic with respect to their counseling.