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Employment Counselors' Perceptions of Client Needs
Author(s) -
VARGA F. LOUIS
Publication year - 1974
Publication title -
journal of employment counseling
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.252
H-Index - 27
eISSN - 2161-1920
pISSN - 0022-0787
DOI - 10.1002/j.2161-1920.1974.tb00333.x
Subject(s) - categorization , psychology , perception , guideline , applied psychology , social psychology , medical education , medicine , philosophy , epistemology , pathology , neuroscience
This study measures the differences in types of client needs perceived by various categories of counselors, the types of needs they attempted to help their clients gratify, and the needs that were viewed as gratified. Eighteen counselors and 697 clients (or their records) were used in the study. A five‐category need classification guideline was used by three outside judges to categorize the list of needs compiled by the counselors; agreement among the judges was such that the classification system was deemed appropriate for this study. Differences in need categories were compared using a chi‐square formula and Yates' correction for small frequencies. Significant findings and conclusions are noted and suggestions for further studies are given.