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Gender Self‐Confidence and Social Influence: Impact on Working Alliance
Author(s) -
Anderson Ruthann Smith,
Levitt Dana Heller
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
journal of counseling and development
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.805
H-Index - 78
eISSN - 1556-6676
pISSN - 0748-9633
DOI - 10.1002/jcad.12026
Subject(s) - alliance , psychology , self confidence , session (web analytics) , psychotherapist , clinical psychology , counselor education , social psychology , applied psychology , higher education , world wide web , political science , computer science , law
The authors investigated the relationships between the counselor's gender self‐confidence, the counselor's use of social influence within the counseling session, and the counselor's sex in relation to the counseling relationship. These attributes were studied with regard to how deeply a therapeutic working alliance developed between the counselor and the client. Results support the importance of counselor characteristics on the counselor–client alliance. Implications for teaching, research, and practice are presented.