Preliminary Establishment of the Dispositional Development Scale: Incorporating the Working Alliance in Professional Disposition Assessment

This article discusses the initial development of an instrument which was designed to aid educators in assessing professional dispositions in rehabilitation counselor education students, in accordance with the 2016 Council for Accreditation of Counseling and Related Educational Programs (CACREP) Sta...

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Published inRehabilitation research, policy, and education Vol. 34; no. 2; pp. 114 - 126
Main Author Levine, Allison
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Springer Publishing Company 01.06.2020
Subjects
Construct Validity
Content Validity
Counselor Characteristics
Counselor Client Relationship
Counselor Educators
Counselor Training
Graduate Students
Masters Programs
Personality Measures
Rehabilitation Counseling
Test Construction
Test Reliability
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Summary:This article discusses the initial development of an instrument which was designed to aid educators in assessing professional dispositions in rehabilitation counselor education students, in accordance with the 2016 Council for Accreditation of Counseling and Related Educational Programs (CACREP) Standards. Furthermore, the development of the instrument was embedded with the concept of the working alliance (Bordin, 1979). The current study leads to the introduction of the Dispositional Development Scale (DDS), which was created using a two-phase approach, including content validation by Certified Rehabilitation Counselors (n = 148). The implications for using DDS in rehabilitation counselor education are significant and include a systematic, more transparent method of evaluating students' nonacademic competencies.
ISSN:2168-6653
DOI:10.1891/RE-19-21