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The Cost of Client Transfer
Author(s) -
Flowers John V.,
Booraem Curtis D.
Publication year - 1995
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.1556-6676.1995.tb01795.x
Subject(s) - contentment , block (permutation group theory) , transfer (computing) , scale (ratio) , psychology , computer science , psychotherapist , mathematics , physics , combinatorics , quantum mechanics , parallel computing
Clients undergoing transfer from one counselor to another were compared on the Generalized Contentment Scale and a DSM‐III‐R measure with clients staying with the same counselor over the same length of treatment. In three 12‐week blocks, the clients with the same counselor made the greatest progress in the first 12 weeks, making less progress in each successive block. The clients who were transferred in the middle of the second 12‐week block also made the greatest progress in the first time block, lost some of the progress in the transfer block, and made significant progress with the new counselor in the third time block, ending with no significant differences in either generalized contentment or DSM‐III‐R outcome from clients who had not been transferred.