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Effect of Experimentally Induced Sets of High and Low ‘Expertness' During Brief Vocational Counseling
Author(s) -
GUTTMAN MARY A. JULIUS,
HAASE RICHARD F.
Publication year - 1972
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.1556-6978.1972.tb01503.x
Subject(s) - psychology , vocational education , set (abstract data type) , applied psychology , counselor education , recall , qualitative research , medical education , clinical psychology , higher education , pedagogy , cognitive psychology , computer science , medicine , social science , sociology , political science , law , programming language
A study was designed to evaluate the effects of an experimentally induced set of “expertness” on clients' evaluations of their selected experiences during brief vocational counseling. Thirty‐one college freshman males were randomly assigned to two induced sets of high and low expertness, and client responses to both quantitative and qualitative aspects of the interview were obtained. The results suggested that (a) clients responded more favorably to relationship aspects of the interview with a counselor who was introduced as a nonexpert than with a counselor who was introduced as an expert, (b) informational recall was greater for clients interviewed by the expert counselor, and (c) global ratings of counselor effectiveness did not differentiate between expert and nonexpert counselors. Implications for counselor training and counselor practice are discussed.