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Do Common Factors Account for Counseling Outcome?
Author(s) -
Leibert Todd W.,
DunneBryant Alexandra
Publication year - 2015
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.1556-6676.2015.00198.x
Subject(s) - expectancy theory , alliance , outcome (game theory) , psychology , regression analysis , logistic regression , clinical psychology , medicine , social psychology , mathematics , mathematical economics , machine learning , political science , computer science , law
This study drew from common factors as an explanatory model for how counseling produces client change. Client self‐report measures for 3 common factors—client factors, client–counselor relationship factors, and client expectancy factors—were examined at a counseling training clinic. Regression analyses revealed that 2 factors significantly predicted treatment outcome: client expectancy and the therapeutic alliance. One variable from client factors—abuse history—had a nonsignificant but modest relationship with outcome.