[Facilitating the acquisition of basic counseling skills by modeling and language].
This study investigated the effect of verbalizing a model's performance for the acquisition of counseling skills. Paraphrasing, a counseling skill used in microcounseling, was used as an index of the acquisition of counseling skills. Undergraduate students (N= 56) were randomly assigned to one of the following groups: self-verbalization group (n= 18), experimenter-verbalization group (n = 21), and non-verbalization control group (n = 17). Pretests, posttests, and follow-up tests (one week later) were used to examine paraphrasing scores. Modeling was practiced after the pretest. From the pretest to the posttest, all three groups showed a performance gain, although the self-verbalization group showed a greater performance gain than the other two groups. From the posttest to the follow-up test, the control group showed a performance loss, while the performance of the other two groups remained at the same level. These findings suggest that verbalization of a model's performance in microcounseling improves the acquisition and the maintenance of the counseling skills.
Graduate School of Psychology, Doshisha University, Karasuma, Imadegawa, Kamigyo-ku, Kyoto 602-8580, Japan. ekj1001@mail2.doshisha.ac.jp
Hayato
H
Kawagoshi
Hiroko
H
Sugiwaka
D003376:Counseling / Q000193:education*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008960:Models, Psychological; D013663:Teaching / Q000379:methods; D014705:Verbal Behavior; D055815:Young Adult