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How would a therapist go about evaluating his/her work as a psychologist? What are some of the criteria they can use to evaluate the quality of their work? Can a therapist refer to their clients goals and objectives to evaluate their effectiveness of their work? What products (reports/cases) can a therapist review in order to track their own growth and how can a therapist measure progress and success? What objective measurements can be consider useful in assessing therapist/counseling growth?
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Many years of social-psychological research indicate that individuals have a difficult time accurately measuring their own competence (Dunning, 2005). The Skilled-Counselor Training Model (SCTM) was developed by incorporating training of both low and high level counseling skills through having trainees learn about, observe, and perform skills, and then self-assess as well as receive peer and instructor feedback (Urbani et al., 2002). Research with this model has found that counselors overestimate their skills before the training and underestimate themselves by a small percentage after training. Other systematic skills based counselor ...
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