Abstract
This study investigates the effects of a solution-focused brief counseling training program on telephone-counseling volunteers in Taiwan, with an emphasis on promoting their counseling self-efficacy. There were 14 hotline volunteers recruited from Taipei Lifeline, they received 24 hours of solution-focused brief counseling training over 3 days. All participants were required to fill in an open-ended course feedback form after the solution-focused brief counseling training program and 1 month later. We used open coding to analyze the verbal data from the course-feedback forms. There were 6 features contributing to the effect of this solution-focused brief counseling training program that were found: helpful solution-focused brief counseling skills, the usefulness of solution-focused brief counseling’s stages, the establishment of basic knowledge of solution-focused brief counseling, enhancing the confidence and stability of telephone-counseling volunteers, the positive influence on volunteers’ personal life, and effective ways to learn and master solution-focused brief counseling. Using the research results, this study discusses solution-focused brief counseling training as it relates to telephone-counseling volunteers and suggests further research directions in relevant fields.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 285-302 |
Number of pages | 18 |
Journal | Journal of Family Psychotherapy |
Volume | 28 |
Issue number | 4 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2017 Oct 2 |
Keywords
- Counseling self-efficacy
- hotline volunteer
- solution-focused brief counseling
- training effect
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Clinical Psychology
- Psychiatry and Mental health