The Use of Social Influence Videotapes in the Training of Counselors [electronic resource] / Geoffrey G. Yager and F. Robert Wilson.
One set of counselor behaviors that has been highly investigated over recent years has been the social influence behaviors. Despite the considerable research interest in social influence theory as it relates to counseling, there has been little attention to the demonstration of the presence or absen...
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| Summary: | One set of counselor behaviors that has been highly investigated over recent years has been the social influence behaviors. Despite the considerable research interest in social influence theory as it relates to counseling, there has been little attention to the demonstration of the presence or absence of such behavioral skills as expertness, trustworthiness, and attractiveness. In connection with another study, a set of videotapes were developed to demonstrate these three behaviors in a clear, relatively undisputable manner. A client role-play was developed to be maximally relevant to the undergraduate student participants. Four unrehearsed, 7-minute counseling sessions were carried out with the same male counselor, who varied his counseling responses from one videotape to another. During one of the interviews, a non-deficient demonstration, the counselor displayed high levels of all three targeted social influence variables (expert, attractive, and trustworthy). In each of the remaining videotapes, one counselor characteristic was intentionally lowered. The counselor continued to make empathic responses directed to the client's concerns. The videotapes were validated using a group of 13 doctoral students' ratings of each counselor on expertness, attractiveness, and trustworthiness. Students were fascinated to see a counselor behave in ways that illustrated the social influence behaviors. The same videotapes can serve as excellent discussion starters in beginning counseling classes. (ABL) |
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| Item Description: | ERIC Document Number: ED290986. ERIC Note: Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the North Central Association for Counselor Education and Supervision (St. Louis, MO, November 19-22, 1987). |
| Physical Description: | 9 p. |