Abstract
Personal Orientation Inventory scores of 14 female alcoholism counselors (Mage = 42 yr., Moduc. = 12 yr., MIQ = 116) accepted into a 9-mo. full-time counselor training program were compared before and after training. After training, the counselors scored significantly higher on the scales Inner-directed, Time Competent, Spontaneity, Capacity for Intimate Contact, Self-regard, Existentiality, Feeling Reactivity, and Synergy. It is concluded that the female alcoholism counselors gave self-descriptions on the inventory congruent with the responses of self-actualizing people both at pre-training and post-training, but that there was an improvement in reported self-actualizing characteristics even following training program completion.
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