title: The personal characteristics of effective counselors: what 10 experts think.
abstract: The counseling professional has called for the use of personal characteristics to be used for admissions to counseling programs as well as in the evaluation of counseling students. 10 expert counselors ranked 22 personality characteristics of potential students for importance and responsiveness to training. The most important include empathy, acceptance, and warmth, while the least important include resourcefulness, sympathy and sociability.
authors.affiliation: Southeast Missouri State University, Cape Girardeau 63701, USA. vpope@semovm.semo.edu
authors.forename: V T
authors.initials: VT
authors.lastname: Pope
authors.forename: W B
authors.initials: WB
authors.lastname: Kline
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003376:Counseling / Q000193:education*; D004500:Education, Graduate; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010551:Personality; D012570:School Admission Criteria