Counselling effectiveness of guidance officers in Queensland State high schools

1988 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 1-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jan Brittain
Keyword(s):  
High Schools ◽  
Social Influence ◽  
Short Version ◽  
Interpersonal Influence ◽  
Satisfaction Questionnaire ◽  
Influence Model ◽  
Level Of Satisfaction ◽  
Rating Form ◽  
Counselor Rating ◽  
Influence Process

The counselling effectiveness of guidance officers (GOs) was examined in a study involving 21 State secondary schools in Queensland. Students from Year 8 to Year 12 from each school were asked to rate the level of satisfaction with a counselling session. This was measured by the Client Satisfaction Questionnaire (CSQ) developed by Larsen, Attkisson, Hargreaves and Nguyen (1979). Based on Strong's (1968) Social Influence model, counselling was assumed to be an interpersonal influence process. Therefore these students also rated their perceptions of a GO's counselling attributes on the Counselor Rating Form – Short Version (CRF-S; Corrigan & Schmidt, 1983). Results indicated that ratings on the 12 CRF-S items as a total as well as a number of individual items significantly predicted CSQ scores. Student ratings on both questionnaires were high and possible explanations are considered. Also, several GO and student variables (e.g. sex of student, willingness, year level) were found to significantly predict satisfaction. Additionally, a number of these GO and student variables (e.g. GO and sex of student, willingness, the number of counselling sessions) were also found to differentially affect students' perceptions of GOs' counselling attributes.

Perceptions of Teacher Characteristics and Student Judgments of Teacher Effectiveness

1988 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 158-160 ◽  
Author(s):  
Harvey R. Freeman
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Effectiveness ◽  
Teacher Characteristics ◽  
Short Version ◽  
Classroom Situation ◽  
Rating Form ◽  
Process Factors ◽  
Psychology Course ◽  
Counselor Rating ◽  
Influence Process ◽  
The Relationship

This study examined the relationship between perceived teacher attractiveness, expertness, and trustworthiness and student judgment of teacher effectiveness. Three teachers who taught both an introductory and an advanced psychology course participated in the study. Students completed the Counselor Rating Form–Short version (CRF–S) and rated the teacher on effectiveness. Results indicated that each of the subscales of the CRF–S was positively related to perceived teacher effectiveness. The results also suggested that it may be useful to conceptualize teaching as a social influence process. Factors extensively researched by social and counseling psychologists may be important in understanding the classroom situation.

Clients' Characteristics as Mediating Variables in Perception of Counselors' Social Influence

1982 ◽  
Vol 54 (2) ◽  
pp. 523-526 ◽  
Author(s):  
John K. Mc Kay ◽  
E. Thomas Dowd ◽  
Stephen A. Roixin
Keyword(s):  
Social Influence ◽  
The Other ◽  
Rehabilitation Center ◽  
Educational Levels ◽  
Counseling Process ◽  
Process And Outcome ◽  
Rating Form ◽  
Mediating Variables ◽  
Higher Educational ◽  
Counselor Rating

48 clients in a rehabilitation center viewed two 12-min. videotapes each, one depicting a counselor high in social influence and the other one of low influence. They then rated the counselors on the Counselor Rating Form and the Empathy subscale of the Barrett-Lennard Relationship Inventory. Black subjects and subjects at lower educational levels rated the counselor of low social influence significantly higher than did whites and better educated subjects on all measures. White subjects and subjects at higher educational levels rated the counselor of high social influence significantly higher on Trustworthiness and Empathy than did blacks and less educated subjects. Results are discussed in light of the research on clients' characteristics as mediating variables in the counseling process and outcome.

The Effects of Rehabilitation Counselor Disability Status on Similarly Disabled Clients' Perceptions of Counselor Social Influence and Empathy

1982 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 10-13 ◽  
Author(s):  
John K. McKay ◽  
E. Thomas Dowd ◽  
Stephen A. Rollin
Keyword(s):  
Social Influence ◽  
The Other ◽  
Rehabilitation Counselors ◽  
Rehabilitation Counselor ◽  
Disability Status ◽  
Rating Form ◽  
Mobility Impaired ◽  
Counselor Rating ◽  
High Influence

Two rehabilitation counselors seated in wheelchairs (mobility impaired) were videotaped in two counseling interviews in which they were coached to be either high or low in social influence and empathy. Each session was simultaneously videotaped with two cameras, one which showed the wheelchair (i.e. disabled counselor), while the other did not (i.e. nondisabled counselor). Forty-eight mobility impaired clients evaluated two counselors each, using the Counselor Rating Form and the empathy subscale of the Barrett-Lennard Relationship Inventory. High influence disabled counselors were rated significantly higher on all measures than high influence notuiisabled counselors. There was no significant differences on any of the measures between low influence disabled counselors and low influence nondisabled counselors. Implications and suggestions for further research are presented.

scholarly journals Occupant-engaged Control for HVAC Systems with a Social Influence Model

2020 ◽  
Vol 53 (5) ◽  
pp. 614-617
Author(s):  
Yang Yu ◽  
Quan Xiong ◽  
Rong Su
Keyword(s):  
Social Influence ◽  
Hvac Systems ◽  
Influence Model

Matching Therapists' Predicates: An in Vivo Test of Effectiveness

1983 ◽  
Vol 57 (1) ◽  
pp. 207-210 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. Thomas Dowd ◽  
Ann G. Hingst
Keyword(s):  
Neurolinguistic Programming ◽  
Representational System ◽  
In Vivo Test ◽  
Interview Situation ◽  
Rating Form ◽  
Interview Condition ◽  
Student Volunteers ◽  
Counselor Rating ◽  
Evaluation Inventory

The theory of neurolinguistic programming predicts that a therapist's matching of a client's primary representational system, as expressed in the client's predicates, should result in increased therapist's rapport and social influence. This hypothesis was tested in an actual interview situation. Six relatively inexperienced therapists, two each in predicate matching, predicate mismatching, and predicate no-matching conditions, conducted a 30-min. interview with nine undergraduate student volunteers each, for a total of 54 subjects. After the appropriate interview condition was completed, subjects rated their therapists on the Counselor Rating Form and the Counseling Evaluation Inventory. No significant differences among the three conditions on any of the measures were found. Results are compared with those of previous research on assessment and primary representational system matching in analogue situations.

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