Coached Clients as Raters of Counseling Effectiveness

The study was designed to investigate whether coached clients, trained in objective rating techniques, were more consistent with the ratings of counselor educators when evaluating the counseling effectiveness of counselor trainees, as compared to the same ratings completed by non‐coached clients using the same criterion. A sample of ten counselor trainees were each rated by two coached and two non‐coached clients using the Counseling Evaluation Inventory . The results indicated that the coached clients significantly agreed with the criterion, while the non‐coached clients exhibited bias and subjectivity in their ratings.