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Client Psychological Distress: An Important Factor in Career Counseling
Author(s) -
Multon Karen D.,
Heppner Mary J.,
Gysbers Norman C.,
Zook Catherine,
EllisKalton Carrie A.
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
the career development quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.846
H-Index - 53
eISSN - 2161-0045
pISSN - 0889-4019
DOI - 10.1002/j.2161-0045.2001.tb00960.x
Subject(s) - alliance , psychology , distress , psychological distress , clinical psychology , perception , session (web analytics) , psychotherapist , mental health , neuroscience , political science , law , world wide web , computer science
The authors explored client psychological distress as a variable in career counseling. Forty‐two clients in a naturalistic setting were seen for a total of 290 sessions by 21 counselors‐in‐training. The results indicated that (a) 60% of the clients were psychologically distressed, (b) clients' scores decreased significantly from pretest to posttest on psychological distress variables, (c) significant linear growth occurred in the clients' perception of the working alliance across sessions, and (d) the psychological distress outcome variables were significantly related to both the first session level of the working alliance and its linear growth.