The influence of Korean counselors' personal wellness on client-perceived counseling effectiveness

摘要: Wellness is defined as an individual’s lifestyle, choices, and habits a way to achieve optimal health well-being. Professional organizations literature in the counseling field underscored importance of enhancing personal wellness professional counselors counselors-in-training. The assumption underlying this movement was that counselors’ would be directly translated into their effectiveness with clients practice. However, has received little empirical attention. In addition, review counselor illustrated need for addressing potential moderators relationship attempt provide elaborated knowledge base interventions training. Thus, study investigated Korean clients’ perceptions moderating effects empathy on relationship. Participants were 133 counselor-client dyads who had engaged face-to-face individual at university centers or youth institutes located Seoul Gyeonggi Province, South Korea. Survey measures used assessment wellness, empathy, social desirability. Client survey assess variables: (a) satisfaction in-session behavior, (b) evaluation about session impact, (c) perception working alliance. results from correlation multiple regression analyses indicated scores not significantly related ratings effectiveness. series hierarchical revealed cognitive moderated relationships client-perceived Specifically, findings suggested that, lower levels