Counselors' and clients' ethnic similarity and therapeutic alliance in time-limited outcomes of counseling.
51 pairs of clients and counselors at a Southwestern university counseling and research training clinic were assessed for ethnic similarities in relation to the therapeutic alliance and counseling outcomes in 6 sessions of counseling. Analysis showed after 6 sessions symptom distress was reduced. Also, counselors and clients who had similar ethnicity had significantly more positive counseling outcomes than ethnically dissimilar pairings, but ethnic similarity was not related to the nature of the therapeutic alliance and therapeutic alliance was not a correlate of counseling outcomes.
Ricker
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New Mexico State University, Department of Counseling and Educational Psychology, Las Cruces 88003, USA.
Nystul
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Waldo
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D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D003376:Counseling; D005006:Ethnicity / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D016896:Treatment Outcome