The purpose of this study was to understand the training effects and to explore the factors which influence this training process of a Time-Effective Brief Counseling(Budman & Gurman, 1988, 1992) workshop. A fifteen-hour brief counseling training program was delivered to 11 graduate students at the department of counseling of psychology. The training effects were detected by those counselors’ understanding of brief counseling after receiving the training program. The instruments used to measure training effect were “Session Feedback Form”, “Comprehensive Evaluation Form”, and the interview after the first counseling session. The results were as follows:

1. The training program can clarify and enhance the knowledge of the brief counseling which counselors have. Its also provides knowledge about how the counselors carry out the brief counseling and how to catch the key point of client problems during limited time. The effects of training program was not different among those trainees who were on the different levels of counseling education and practicum experience. However, the speed those trainees’ understanding toward brief counseling were different.
2. Those factors which affect how trainees acknowledge the brief counseling are: the way of trainer’s teaching and modeling, trainee’s personal counseling approach, their way of learning, personal life issues, and training materials.

Suggestions for counselor training, program designs, and further studies were recommended.

Keywords
counselor training, counselor education, brief counseling, time-effective counseling

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