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The Skilled Counselor Training Model: Skills Acquisition, Self‐Assessment, and Cognitive Complexity
Author(s) -
Little Cassandra,
Packman Jill,
Smaby Marlowe H.,
Maddux Cleborne D.
Publication year - 2005
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.1556-6978.2005.tb01746.x
Subject(s) - counselor education , psychology , cognition , medical education , clinical psychology , applied psychology , higher education , medicine , psychiatry , political science , law
The authors evaluated the effectiveness of the Skilled Counselor Training Model (SCTM; M. H. Smaby, C. D. Maddux, E. Torres‐Rivera, & R. Zimmick, 1999) in teaching counseling skills and in fostering counselor cognitive complexity. Counselor trainees who completed the SCTM had better counseling skills and higher levels of cognitive complexity than did counselor trainees who did not receive the training. Before training, both experimental and control group participants overestimated their skills performance. The control group persisted in this overestimation after training, whereas students who completed the SCTM had a much more accurate self‐assessment. Results suggest that skills‐based training may improve counseling skills and cognitive complexity in counselor trainees.