As regards adult counselling, other points can be added to the list:
- professional qualities:
background,
knowledge of particular fields; - experience;
- mental health.
Another type of “chart” invites to self-recording by the subject (Beck, apud Dafinoiu,
2002):
Last name: ............................ First name: ......................................
Age: ..................... Date of record: ................................................Situation / state Emotions Automatic thoughts
Description of:- Ideas, thoughts, memories
etc., that caused the
unpleasant emotion
or - Events that produced a
disturbing emotion
Specification of:- Behaviour: aggressive,
anxious, peaceful, etc.
Assessment of: - Intensity of emotion on a
scale from 0 to 8 (where 0 =
absent and 8 = maximum
intensity)
Description of:- Automatic thoughts
preceding the emotion
Assessment of: - Level of confidence in
automatic (spontaneous)
thoughts on a scale from
0 to 8
Method assessment
Advantages:
- seizes natural attitudinal and aptitude-related manifestations, behaviour, etc.,
in real life and activity, especially offering qualitative data; - allows data gathering on non-verbal behaviour;
- allows longitudinal analyses by recording behaviours over longer periods of
time (months or years, by participatory observation, for instance); - life study is far less artificial than with other methods (questionnaire-based
investigation, interview, experiment).