Research in Counseling: Methodological and Professional Issues

Empirical studies on nonverbal communication in clinician—patient interaction are reviewed for both the psychotherapeutic and medical settings. Nonverbal behavior is considered both as the consequence of antecedent variables, such as individual or relationship characteristics, and as a predictor of clinical effectiveness and patient outcomes. The concept of rapport is considered in relation to nonverbal behavior, both theoretically and empirically. Also, the relevance of a patient's nonverbal behavior to the diagnostic goals of the clinical visit is demonstrated by research on nonverbal cues to psychopathology, Type A/B personality, and pain. Although the topic of nonverbal behavior and clinician—patient interaction has had a promising start, much research is still needed, especially that which experimentally manipulates either antecedent variables or nonverbal behavior itself to demonstrate cause and effect relations.

Nonverbal behavior in clinician—patient interaction

Counseling as a social influence process: A review.

Nonverbal involvement and social control.

Les auteurs presentent les recherches parues depuis 1981 sur le role du «counseling» comme processus de changement et d'influence sociale, selon le modele de Strong

Jeffrey C. Siegel

Papers

Effects of Objective Evidence of Expertness and Nonverbal Behavior on Client-Perceived Expertness.

Effects of Objective Evidence of Expertness, Nonverbal Behavior, and Subject Sex on Client-Perceived Expertness.