The Impact of Counseling Training on Interpersonal Experiences of Counselor Trainees

• Main Authors: Chen, Chiao-Yun, 陳巧芸
• Other Authors: Hung, Li-Chu Hung
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2013
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/99496592238497691082

碩士 === 國立臺北教育大學 === 心理與諮商學系碩士班 === 101 === This study is designed to explore the impacts of counseling study on interpersonal functioning of counselor trainees. Specific research interests include their changes in the interpersonal experiences accompanying the counseling trainings, the factors that lead to the changes, as well as the strategies that counselor trainees frequently use in the face of the negative interpersonal emotions. 7 counselor trainees (4 male and 3 female) participated in the semi-structured, face-to-face interviews. The analysis of transcripts was based on the grounded theory and its coding scheme. The study revealed a couple of changes in the interpersonal functioning accompanying the counseling training for the trainees. Previous interpersonal relations was greatly influenced by the Chinese cultural customs, which involve an inclination to suppress negative emotionality, avoid interpersonal conflicts, and interacts in the way based on the subjective evaluation on the past interpersonal experiences. Also, following the counseling training come an improvement in self-understanding, self-acceptance and self-awareness. In solving interpersonal conflicts, counseling trainees reported a tendency to be neutral, even though critics may point to them as being unsupportive. Moreover, trainees reported that the training is helpful in terms of their skillful and proper expression of negative emotionality. They also learned they should choose someone who can accept their negative emotion to express their emotion. However, as they respect a diversity of personal values, interpersonal challenges, such as a loss of intimacy while standing in a neutral position, do exist. Finally, although the analysis of cultural influences and the rules of interpersonal actions provides a powerful scheme to delineate the changes of interpersonal experience with the counseling training, not all the changes reported could be properly explained. Further investigation on cultural impacts should be made and thought. Implications and suggestions for counselor trainees, practitioners, educators and the future study are also discussed.