| Abstract: | This research effort presents (a) a model for viewing counseling theories and (b) data regarding the similarities and differences among selected counseling theorists on two dimensions: a process dimension and a goal dimension. Two instruments were used to tap the process and goal statements of selected theorists. Thirty-seven graduate students in two counseling theory classes completed the instruments, and their statement ratings were used to plot the selected theorists on the proposed model. Analysis of variance procedures were used to test differences among the theorists. The F ratios for both the process and goal statements were found to be significant at or beyond the .05 level. Theorist clusters were obtained by a post hoc probing process where the process clusters are as follows: (a) Williamson, Wolpe, Krumboltz; (b) Ellis, Thorne, Dreikurs, and Dollard and Miller; (c) Frankl, Alexander; (d) Rogers. The goal clusters are: (a) Wolpe, Krumboltz; (b) Williamson, Dollard and Miller; (c) Dreikurs, Thorne, Ellis, Alexander; (d) Rogers; (e) Frankl. |
