We briefly review the literature on helping skills training. We then provide a rationale for the current series of studies, given methodological problems and a lack of focus on teaching insight skills in the previous literature. Next, we provide an overview of the rationale, methods, and analyses used in common across three studies conducted to teach insight skills (immediacy, challenges, and interpretation, respectively) to undergraduate students in helping skills courses.
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