Psychologist’s assessment of openness to experience duringa counseling conversation
The article is devoted to the issue of determining openness to experience and avoidance of experience, manifested by people who applied for psychological help. The aim of the work is to identify the most typical criteria for the diagnostic determination of these parameters during a counseling/psychotherapeutic conversation. Content analysis of 20 reflexive essays by6 counseling psychologists, written after the first meeting with a new client, made it possible to identify 10 most frequently used by psychologists signs of recognizing openness to experience and 13 - avoidance of experience.