BUILDING ON AN EMPIRICAL FOUNDATION - STRATEGIES TO ENHANCE GOOD PRACTICE

Reviews of the research literature on outcomes in counseling agree tha t counseling works. It is also possible to use research to identify st rategies for increasing the probability of successful counseling. Such strategies include careful assessment of the client, matching the cli ent and counselor on demographic and attitudinal variables, and mainta ining a productive working alliance through open disclosure to the cli ent of the counselor's background and procedures, inquiry into the cli ent's experience of counseling process, and management of client resis tance.