Goal Selection for Counseling with Potentially Religious Clients by Professional and Student Counselors in Explicitly Christian or Secular Settings
Goal Selection for Counseling with Potentially Religious Clients by Professional and Student Counselors in Explicitly Christian or Secular Settings
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专业和学生辅导员在明确的基督教或世俗环境中为潜在宗教客户提供咨询的目标选择
DOI：
10.1177/009164718301100405
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发表时间：
1983
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通讯作者：
G. G. Scott
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作者：
E. Worthington;G. G. Scott
研究结果表明：(A)与“非宗教”客户相比，“信奉宗教”的客户从咨询中获益的可能性更小(辍学更多，受益更少)；(B)成功的咨询通常会导致客户的价值观发生变化。据推测，这两个发现可能是由于世俗和宗教顾问为潜在的宗教客户设定了不同的目标。在这项研究中，在明确的基督教或世俗环境中，在专业或学生层面(n=96)，辅导员完成了问卷调查，为一个虚构的客户评估他们的目标，该客户否认宗教的重要性，忽视宗教，负责任地承认宗教，或承认宗教但行为古怪。工作环境准确地预测了辅导员的价值观。对于那些认为宗教的重要性有不同看法的客户，咨询师无论在什么环境下都会做出不同的反应。基督教辅导员明显更关心精神问题，并认为精神目标比世俗辅导员更重要。研究结果表明，尽管世俗和基督教咨询师对个别客户的看法都很敏感，但咨询师的价值体系很可能会反映在他们喜欢的治疗目标上。
Research findings suggest that (a) “religious” clients are less likely to benefit from counseling (more dropouts, less beneficial change) than “nonreligious” clients and (b) successful counseling usually results in value changes by clients. It was hypothesized that both of these findings might be due to secular and religious counselors setting different goals for potentially religious clients. In this study, counselors in explicitly Christian or secular settings, on professional or student levels (n = 96), completed questionnaires rating their goals for a fictitious client who denied the importantce of religion, ignored it, acknowledged it responsibly, or acknowledged it but acted bizzarely. The work setting accurately predicted the values of the counselors. Counselors, regardless of setting, responded differentially to clients who perceived the importance of religion differently. Christian counselors were significantly more concerned with spiritual issues and viewed spiritual goals as more important than did secular counselors. Findings suggest that, although both secular and Christian counselors are sensitive to perceptions of individual clients, the value system of the counselors will likely be reflected in the treatment goals they prefer.