Revealing counselling.

Abstract

An updated evaluation of the counselling provided by a Christchurch counselling agency was carried out during the years 2010-2014. The information gained was then combined with two other sources of similar data, one from an earlier review of the same agency and the second from an additional agency. Data from the three sources provided a sample of over 5,500 clients who had completed their counselling. The counselling spanned nine years and involved some 65 counsellors. Results showed that counselling was overwhelmingly brief (90% of clients had fewer than 10 sessions) and pointed to ways in which the agencies could cut their costs and improve their services by looking further into the reasons for cancellations and possible ways of reducing them, planning for and implementing brief counselling, and instituting clinical reviews for lengthy counselling. The need for further research of this sort was emphasised. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] Copyright of New Zealand Journal of Counselling is the property of New Zealand Association of Counsellors and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)