Download or read book Counselor Trainee Personal Growth Factors and Self-efficacy written by Larissa Florence Seay and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Counselors and counselor trainees are expected to engage in intense personal work and self-awareness efforts in order to become effective counselors. The growth that counselors expect to see clients commit to and engage in for their own benefit can be seen as parallel to counselors' personal and professional growth. Thus, the goal of this study was to examine the personal growth factors and the inhibiting factor of anxiety through the lens of social cognitive theory and Bowen's theory of differentiation of self in predicting counselor self-efficacy in counseling trainees. Personal growth initiative, differentiation of self, experience with personal counseling, and anxiety correlated with counselor trainees' beliefs in their ability to effectively counsel clients. Two aspects of differentiation of self-- Emotional Cutoff and Fusion with Others--partially mediated the relationship between personal growth initiative and counseling self-efficacy. Training implications, limitations, and future directions are discussed.