Counseling May be Hazardous to Your Health: How We Teach People to Feel Powerless.

Stensrud, Robert; Stensrud, Kay

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Publication Date: 1981-Jan

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Counseling May be Hazardous to Your Health: How We Teach People to Feel Powerless.

Stensrud, Robert; Stensrud, Kay

Personnel and Guidance Journal, v59 n5 p300-04 Jan 1981

Client expectancy of powerlessness can lead to actual powerlessness. Once counselors recognize that personal power is healthy and beneficial, they have to begin to structure institutions and agencies to encourage the development of personal power. (Author)

Descriptors: Counseling Effectiveness, Counseling Techniques, Counselor Performance, Counselor Role, Delivery Systems, Expectation, Individual Power, Locus of Control, Psychological Patterns, State of the Art Reviews

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Language: English

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