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The Counselor Culture and Client‐Centered Practice
Author(s) -
HOLIMAN MARJORIE,
LAUVER PHILIP J.
Publication year - 1987
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.1556-6978.1987.tb00717.x
Subject(s) - psychology , supervisor , counselor education , context (archaeology) , applied psychology , orientation (vector space) , work (physics) , social psychology , higher education , management , mechanical engineering , paleontology , geometry , mathematics , political science , law , economics , biology , engineering
Filters or sources of distortion inherent in the counselor culture can diminish the counselor's ability to understand a person asking for help. A counselor's role, theoretical orientation, work context, and personal experience influence the interaction between counselor and client so that the client may not be the center of the counseling process. Remedies to reduce such distortions include heightened awareness of the filters' existence, participation in supervision in which counselor and supervisor have access to the same client, and research to establish empirically the presence and effects of various filters on counselors' views of clients.