Sequential Analysis Applied to Counseling Process Research: Two Cases Study

Author: Ray-Chi Lin(Chung Yang Elementary School), Kun-Huei Liu(Graduate Institute of Child Welfare, Chinese Culture University)

Vol.&No.：Vol. 43, No. 1
Date：April 1998
Pages：49-86
DOI：10.3966/2073753X1998044301004

Abstract：

The purpose of this study are to investigate the counselor's and client's verbal response modes, their verbal interaction patterns, their agreements on working alliance and session impact, the associtions among working alliance, verbal response modes and session impact.Two cases of counseling with the same counselor would be tested by sequential analysis. Each counselor and client dyad received 8 counseling sessions. All counseling sessions were taped. After each session, the participants independently compeleted WAI and SEQ. The major findings were as follows: 1. For counselor response modes, counselor vernbal response modes have special patterns in 8 counseling sessions. 2. For client response modes, clients primarily used description, simple response, and experiencing. But two clients' verbal response modes still have some differences. 3. As for counselorclient verbal interaction patterns, counselor exhibited information following client's simple response would decreased client's simple response, and counselor's minimal encourager would reinforce client's description on the 1st case. Counselor's restatement would reinforce client's simple response, and description, and counselor's reflection would reinforce client's description on the 2nd case. 4. Counselor-client agreement on working alliance of the 1st case was very high, but on the 2nd case was low. Counselor-client agreement on session impact of the 1st session was very high, but on the 2nd case was very low. 5. Many counselor's and client's verbal interaction patterns with working alliance have significant relations. Besides many counselor's and client's verbal interaction patterns with session impact have significant relations. 6. Working alliance was the core of counseling relationship, the prediction of the counseling outcome, and the median in-fluential factor of counselor verbal response modes used effectively. Suggestions for sequential analysis on the counseling research and future research were given.

Keywords：verbal response modes, working alliance, session impact, sequential analysis

《Full Text》