Therapist expectancies: Client gender, and therapist gender, profession, and level of training

✍ Scribed by Bianca L. Bernstein; Conrad Lecomte

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1982
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 866 KB
• Volume: 38
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0021-9762
• DOI: 10.1002/1097-4679(198210)38:4<744::aid-jclp2270380409>3.0.co;2-r

✦ Synopsis

Examined the influence on therapists' expectancies of four variables: Client's gender, therapist's gender, therapist's professional affiliation and therapist's level of training. A total of 893 counselors, clinical social workers, and clinical psychologists a t three training levels (beginning master's student, ending master's student, post-master's professional) completed the Therapist Expectancy Inventory in reference to a male or female client description. Data were analyzed using MANOVA and discriminant function analysis procedures. Significant differences on diagnostic, prognostic, or process dimensions of ex ectancies were found for the main effects of thera ist gender, profmional adiation, and level of training. The client gender elfect was not significant. It is concluded that therapists' judgments about the client and their role in counseling are more a function of certain therapist characteristics than client gender.