title: The effect of previous experience on preference of approach for effective counseling.
abstract: Students in a general psychology class viewed four videotapes of initial vocational-educational and initial personal concern counseling sessions. The sessions were presented from a client-centered approach and from a behavioral approach, and employed the same client and counselor. After viewing the tapes, the students were asked to indicate which approach they thought would be more effective in helping a client. Results showed that students who had previously experienced counseling preferred a behavioral approach for both the vocational-educational concern and the personal concern. Students with no experience of counseling did not exhibit a preference.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001521:Behavior Therapy; D003376:Counseling / Q000379:methods*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009629:Person-Centered Psychotherapy; D012718:Set, Psychology; D014830:Vocational Guidance / Q000379:methods*