Eight professional counselors who routinely role-play as clients in 1 counselor education program participated in a focus group investigating their portrayal experiences. Data were analyzed using interpretative phenomenological analysis, which resulted in 3 superordinate themes: missions, influential factors, and repercussions. Findings reinforce…

Assigned 36 novice trainees to triads and to levels of ordinal position--counselor first, second, third--during role-play practice. Results showed no difference between the positions in trainees' reflection of feeling responses. There was a significant positive linear trend from first to third counselor role play, with improved reflection of…

Analyzed the effects of order of counseling and sex within counseling pairs. Results indicated that same sex or opposite sex pairing and ordinal position did not influence performances. Women, however, produced more reflection-of-feeling responses, and their responses tended to be more accurate than those of men. (Author/BL)

Results of a study of student counselors in treatment groups (covert other model, covert self-model, written material, and control) indicated that performance on written and role-play measures increased significantly from pre- to posttesting for treatment groups except the control group. (Author/NRB)

Examines whether prepracticum trainees' varying perceptions of the success of a role play or videotape of a counseling session alters the potency of the role play or videotape in increasing counseling self-efficacy. Study indicates that trainees' perceptions of their counseling performance success may alter dramatically the potency of role play as…

Neophyte counselors trained in the use of their own imagery to practice counseling interviews were compared with an untrained group. Results indicated that the ability to discriminate differing levels of empathic responses, to evaluate one's own performance, and amount of preinterview confidence were higher for the mental practice group. (Author)