The Response Modes of Middle-School Counselors When They Encounter Students' Resistance to Counseling

Autor: Chen, Hsueh-Chen, 陳雪珍
Rok vydání: 1999
Druh dokumentu: 學位論文 ; thesis
Popis: 87
The major purpose of this research is to understand the process of client resist to counsel experienced by the middle school''s counselor. The research includes the form of client''s resistance to counseling, the resistance which has been experienced by the counselor, the emotion, thinking and response of the counselor when facing client''s resistance. The study adapts the method of interview to collect data. The counselor who participates the research shall fill in "Record of middle-school student''s resistance to counseling and the counselor''s response" immediately after counseling with clients, and accept interview by the researcher within 48 hours. This research collects information from interview after counseling that are made by eight counselors with a total of sixteen man-hours. After collecting the information, the qualitative data analysis was proceeded according to analysis structure. The results obtained are: 1. The form of resistance includes direct challenge, putting aside to others, silence, denying, escape from going deeply into the topic, resistance to change, non-oral expression and non-punctuality. Among the above, the most is "escape from going deeply into the topic". 2. The counselor has habitual model in response to the resistance and is influenced by the previous impression of the client.The way of response includes: empathy-reflection, confrontation, interpretation, support- encouragement and reassurance, direct guidance, closed question, open question, avoidance or putting down, self-disclosure, silence, immediacy, re-invitation, providing information, paradox, non-oral. Among the above fifteen methods, the "direct guiding " is mostly used. 3. When the counselor faces the client''s resistance, he often takes the positive attitude rather than escaping. 4. The counselor often needs to face the mis-conduct students. When such client expresses the resistance, the counselor often plays the role of teacher to persuade the client. 5. The client will feel angry, anxious, hopeless, and frustrated when the client expresses resistance again and again, while he couldn''t deal with it effectively. Finally, the researcher would like to make suggestions for the middle school counseling workers and the future research approach according to the results and findings in this research. Key words: middle school, counsel, client, resistance
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