THE USE OF RECEPTION CHECKS IN CLIENT PRETHERAPY ORIENTATION RESEARCH.

This article focuses on the usefulness of reception and recall checks in the development and implementation of client pretherapy orientation procedures. Although high scores on such measures do not indicate that the ideas presented in the orientation have been fully grasped or internalized, they do demonstrate that clients have been able to attend to and, in a basic sense, to understand, or receive, the material. Retention of the information can be assessed by readministration at a later point. It is hoped that the employment of manipulation checks of this kind can facilitate the identification of processes through which orientations work.