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Effects of Short‐Term Training On Residence Hall Assistants
Author(s) -
Mitchell Kevin M.,
Rubin Stanford E.,
Bozarth Jerold D.,
Wyrick Thomas J.
Publication year - 1971
Publication title -
counselor education and supervision
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.608
H-Index - 40
eISSN - 1556-6978
pISSN - 0011-0035
DOI - 10.1002/j.1556-6978.1971.tb01461.x
Subject(s) - psychology , residence , empathy , training (meteorology) , medical education , counselor education , applied psychology , clinical psychology , higher education , social psychology , medicine , physics , demography , sociology , meteorology , political science , law
Inasmuch as undergraduate residence hall assistants are being called upon more frequently to counsel students in social‐personal problems and little training specific to this function has been given in the past, there is a need to develop an effective but brief training program leading to increased counseling effectiveness. Six hours of specialized training which focused on counselor accurate empathy enabled eight randomly chosen undergraduate resident assistants to increase their levels of accurate empathy significantly higher than a matched control group which received no training. In addition, the experimental Ss also demonstrated somewhat higher levels of counselor warmth.