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Relationship of a Group Counseling Course, Hours in Counselor Education, and Sex to Empathic Understanding of Counselor Trainees
Author(s) -
WALKER R. BRUCE,
LATHAM WILLIAM L.
Publication year - 1977
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.1556-6978.1977.tb01025.x
Subject(s) - counselor education , psychology , group counseling , empathy , graduate students , clinical psychology , higher education , medical education , social psychology , pedagogy , medicine , political science , law
This study investigated the relationship of a graduate course in group counseling, the number of hours completed in counselor education, and sex to the empathic understanding of trainees in a counselor education program. The trainees were taped in similar counseling sessions, and their responses were rated independently by three counselor educators, who used Carkhuff's empathic understanding scale. A three‐way analysis of variance determined only one significant difference. The trainees who had completed a course in group counseling were significantly higher ( p <.05) than those who had not. The level of empathic understanding of the higher group, however, was less than the level considered to be the minimum for effective counseling.