THE EFFECT OF COUNSELOR DISABILITY, ATTENDING BEHAVIOR, AND CLIENT PROBLEM ON COUNSELING

An analogue study examined the influence of counselor disability statu s, disability relevance of counseling content, and counselor attending behavior on participants' perceptions of counselors. A sample of 48 u niversity students with disabilities viewed four videotaped vignettes portraying a client-counselor interaction. After viewing each vignette , participants rated the counselor's attractiveness, expertness, and t rustworthiness with the Counselor Rating Form-Short (Carrigan & Schmid t, 1983). Significant effects, p<.05, were found for counselor disabil ity status, counselor attending skills, and the interaction of counsel or attending skills and counselor disability status.