Description

Client outcome research focuses primarily on three
specific aspects of therapy: therapist technique,
client behaviors and therapeutic interaction.
Counselor specific contributions to the therapeutic
process are called therapist characteristics and may
be an innovative way to assess how counselors impact
clients'' outcomes in counseling. For the purposes of
this study administering the Five Factor Wellness
Evaluation of Lifestyle and the Outcome
Questionnaire to master s level student counselors
assessed therapist characteristics. The Outcome
Questionnaire was administered to clients at a
community-counseling clinic at two points and a
delta score was calculated to create the
variable client outcome. To test the
research hypotheses, 70 master s level counseling
students completed both the Five Factor Wellness
Evaluation of Lifestyle and the Outcome
Questionnaire. These scores were then matched with
master s level counseling students client delta
scores, which created the dependent variable.
Results of the study were summarized and discussed,
limitations of the study were explored and
recommendations for future research were proposed.