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Constructive Development and Counselor Competence
Author(s) -
Eriksen Karen P.,
McAuliffe Garrett J.
Publication year - 2006
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.1556-6978.2006.tb00141.x
Subject(s) - psychology , competence (human resources) , counselor education , medical education , constructive , applied psychology , test (biology) , counseling psychology , pedagogy , higher education , social psychology , medicine , paleontology , process (computing) , political science , computer science , law , biology , operating system
Developmental predictors of students' ability to learn counseling skills would help counselor educators select candidates and assist admitted students in their learning. The present research examined the relationship between adult development, as measured by the Learning Environment Preferences test (W. S. Moore, 1989) and the Defining Issues Test (J. Rest, D. Narvaez, M. J. Bebeau, & S. J. Thoma, 1999), and counseling skills performance, as rated by faculty experts using the Counseling Skills Scale (K. P. Eriksen & G. J. McAuliffe, 2003). Data indicate that adult moral development contributed to 18% of the variance in students' counseling skills performance.