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Brief Therapy: A Model for Early Counselor Training
Author(s) -
LOPEZ FREDERICK G.
Publication year - 1985
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.1556-6978.1985.tb00488.x
Subject(s) - practicum , psychology , counselor education , active listening , intervention (counseling) , anxiety , training (meteorology) , medical education , applied psychology , psychotherapist , pedagogy , higher education , medicine , physics , psychiatry , meteorology , political science , law
Early counselor training has traditionally stressed acquisition of basic listening skills while underemphasizing instruction in specific problem‐solving competencies. This bias may be partly responsible for such frequently observed supervision issues as counselor anxiety, inefficient counselor management of interview time, inadequate problem clarification, and premature intervention. Models for conducting brief, problem‐focused counseling seem well‐suited for teaching trainees the verbal skills and structuring methods that promote efficient problem clarification and resolution. The purposes of this article are to present one such model, to identify its skills requirements, and to discuss the advantages of using this model in practicum training.