I need a scale that will assess how well a counselor possesses certain characteristics.
What characteristics are you looking for?
Bidell, Markus P.
Personal and Professional Discord: Examining Religious Conservatism and Lesbian-, Gay-, and Bisexual-Affirmative Counselor Competence.
Journal of Counseling & Development. Apr2014, Vol. 92 Issue 2, p170-179.
LGB-affirmative counselor competency. The SOCCS (Bidell,
2005) is a self-report measure of LGB-affirmative counselor
competency. The 29 items of the SOCCS are rated on a 7-point
scale ranging from 1 (not at all true) to 7 (totally true). Higher
scores are indicative of greater levels of sexual orientation
counselor competency. Approximately 40% of the total variance
was accounted for by a factor analysis that yielded a
three-factor solution. These three factors were labeled (a)
Skills, with 11 items focusing on LGB counseling skills; (b)
Attitudinal Awareness, including 10 items examining a counselor’s
LGB explicit prejudices and biases; and (c) Knowledge,
consisting of eight items examining pecific issues facing
LGB clients. The coefficient alpha for the overall SOCCS was
.90 and ranged between .91 and .76 for the three subscales.
One-week test–retest reliability for the overall SOCCS was
.84. Convergent validity was established for each of the
three subscales (Attitudes, Skills, and Knowledge) using
existing measures of LGB bias, basic counseling skills, and
multicultural knowledge, respectively. I established criterion
validity by demonstrating that LGB respondents, as well as
those with more education, scored significantly higher on the
SOCCS. Discriminant validity was also established through
comparisons with social desirability research test items.
Religious conservatism.
The 20-item RFS (Altemeyer &
Hunsberger, 1992) assesses overall attitudes about a person’s
religious conservatism, not specific to faith or denomination.
The RFS uses a 9-point Likert-type response scale ranging
from –4 (very strongly disagree) to 0 (neutral) to +4 (very
strongly agree). The scale has a .93 Cronbach’s index of
internal consistency and a mean interitem correlation of .37.
No test–retest reliability data are reported on this instrument.
Convergent validity was demonstrated by comparing RFS
scores to measures of LGB prejudice and right-wing authoritarianism.
Criterion validity was established by correlating
RFS with church attendance (r = .64) and with scripture
reading (r = .51). The RFS has been shown to be reliable and
valid for individuals of Christian, Hindu, Jewish, and Muslim
faiths (Altemeyer & Hunsberger, 1992; Hunsberger, 1996).
Bidell, M. P. (2005). The Sexual Orientation Counselor Competency
Scale: Assessing attitudes, skills, and knowledge of counselors working
with lesbian, gay, and bisexual clients. Counselor Education and
Supervision, 44, 267–279. doi:10.1002/j.1556-6978.2005. tb01755.x
Bidell, M. P. (2012a). Addressing disparities: The impact of a lesbian, gay,
bisexual, and transgender graduate counselling course. Counselling
and Psychotherapy Research, 13, 300–307. doi:10.1080/14733145.
2012.741139
Bidell, M. P. (2012b). Examining school counseling students’ multicultural
and sexual orientation competencies through a cross-specialization
comparison. Journal of Counseling & Development, 90, 200–207.
doi:10.1111/j.1556-6676.2012.00025.x
Thanks for your answer. I was referring more to whether they have certain "good counselor" characteristics and whether they would be a food fit for a professional counselor program.
Our teacher used to say: A sharp brain and a good heart (empathy):)
I have put together some measures of therapy outcome measures that might have something in there for you. See my evernote file on outcome measures at https://www.evernote.com/pub/katrinahmiller/counselorefficacyoutcomemeasures
Check this:
Lent, R. W., Hill, C. E., & Hoffman, M. A. (2003). Development and validation of the
counselor activity self-efficacy scales.Journal o fCounseling Psychology, 50,97-108.doi:10.1037/0022-0167.50.1.97
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