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Research: Korean International Students' Expectations About Counseling

✍ Scribed by Kyong Hee Byon; Fong Chan; Kenneth R. Thomas

Publisher
American Counseling Association
Year
1999
Tongue
English
Weight
707 KB
Volume
2
Category
Article
ISSN
1099-0399

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✦ Synopsis

This study examined the counseling expectancies of Korean international students in the United States. The results indicated that Korean students expected to terminate counseling quickly if the process was viewed as unpleasant or did not seem to be immediately helpful. The Korean students expected to approach counseling as a classroom learning situation in which they could present problems, ask questions about the problems, and work on assignments to solve the problems.

Implications for outreaching and counseling Korean international students are discussed.

Research studies with Asian Americans and international students from Asia in the United States have revealed that the preferred counseling styles among these groups frequently differ from the assumptions of Western psychotherapies (

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