A number of previous studies have indicated that measures of counseling performance reduce to a unidimensional structure, based on the examination of relationships among measures from only a few instruments. That finding has persisted in spite of multidimensional theory and training. This study of the relationships among 12 commonly used measures of counseling performance provides further evidence of this unidimensional structure of “good-therapist” factor underlying performance. Implications for training are discussed.
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