2002 12-2  A Study of Relation between the lnteractional Patterns in Individual Counseling Process and Client-perceived Session Impacts

Ling-chen Weng

 Feng-tsu Liao
Mei Ho Institute of Technology National Kaohsiung Normal University


The purpose of the study were mainly to intensively analyze the interpersonal behaviors in individual counseling process , to find the particular interactional patterns during counselors’ interventions, and also to find out the relation between the interactional patterns and the client-perceived session impacts. There were seven volunteer clients paired with five counselors , and the first three sessions were analyzed andevaluated. The cluster version of Structural Analysis of Social Behaviors(SASB) was adopted to achieve the pu中ose of intensive analysis, and The Session Evaluation Questionnaire (SEQ) was used to measure the outcomes. The findings of this study were as follow : First, among all the dyads, interaction of “complementarity” was the most common during the sessions. Second , the frequency of “antithesis” and whether it remained or not made every dyad’s interactional style distinguishable, and three kinds of interactional patterns were found. Third, among the three kinds of patterns,client-perceived “smoothness” was elevated with the pattern of most “complementarity” , while client-percieved “depth” was elevated with the pattern of most “antithesis"-Fourth, some types of interpersonal behaviors were connected with client perceived “depth", ”positivity”, and ”arousal’,. Based on the findings, some suggestions were made .

Keywords
ounseling process, interpersonal behaviors, interactional patterns, session impacts, Structural Analysis of Social Behavior

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