Pub Date : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/21507686.2022.2039730
K. Goh
ABSTRACT This study aims to investigate the significance of predictors that determine whether Singaporeans believe in professional counselling or not for their mental health issues. According to the Theory of Planned Behaviour, various behavioural, subjective, and control beliefs influence an individual’s intention to seek professional counselling from a trained counsellor or psychologist. Herein, we have analysed the data from a survey on adult Singaporeans (age <18, n = 564). The sampling size of the survey was found to be representative of the demographics of the population of Singapore. The study revealed that a person’s attitude towards seeking help for their mental health issues is the most significant predictor for their health issues.
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Pub Date : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/21507686.2022.2035783
Yuka Takizawa, J. Murray, M. Bambling, Yuki Matsumoto, Y. Ishimoto, T. Yamane, S. Edirippulige
ABSTRACT The practice of neuroscience-informed psychotherapy (NIP) that aims to refine the existing practice of psychotherapy is a recent topic in psychotherapy research. The researcher interviewed 25 Japanese psychotherapists and investigated the presence, benefits and needs of NIP and the potential barriers that may hinder the learning of NIP. A thematic analysis identified that the practice of NIP is currently limited in Japan due to limited learning opportunities. However, a minor proportion of Japanese psychotherapists practice NIP and experienced benefits, such as developing confidence in performing psychotherapy and effectively guiding clients to normalize problems. NIP may benefit psychotherapists in Japan and other Asian countries as psychotherapy in Japan and other Asian countries share many characteristics influenced by Confucianism, Buddhism and Westernization.
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Pub Date : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/21507686.2022.2036785
Jessica Chan Lai Cheng, G. Bates, Wan Yi Fernanda Goh
ABSTRACT This paper examines adult learners’ motivation when enrolling into a counselling course, factors that influence their choice of institutions, and employment plans. Survey respondents comprised 288 pre-enrolled students to a Master of Counselling programme. Findings revealed that respondents identified “a sense of calling” and “the desire to help others” as top motivators. Most placed great emphasis on course content and curriculum, credibility and quality of the course, and recognition by professional bodies, locally and internationally when selecting schools. Most respondents looked to a career in counselling upon graduation. The findings will benefit counselling education providers when designing their counselling curriculum, taking into consideration the profile of adult learners, and provide the counselling profession and community a catalyst for generative conversation.
{"title":"An exploratory study of student counsellors’ motivations, considerations, and plans in Singapore","authors":"Jessica Chan Lai Cheng, G. Bates, Wan Yi Fernanda Goh","doi":"10.1080/21507686.2022.2036785","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21507686.2022.2036785","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This paper examines adult learners’ motivation when enrolling into a counselling course, factors that influence their choice of institutions, and employment plans. Survey respondents comprised 288 pre-enrolled students to a Master of Counselling programme. Findings revealed that respondents identified “a sense of calling” and “the desire to help others” as top motivators. Most placed great emphasis on course content and curriculum, credibility and quality of the course, and recognition by professional bodies, locally and internationally when selecting schools. Most respondents looked to a career in counselling upon graduation. The findings will benefit counselling education providers when designing their counselling curriculum, taking into consideration the profile of adult learners, and provide the counselling profession and community a catalyst for generative conversation.","PeriodicalId":42294,"journal":{"name":"Asia Pacific Journal of Counselling and Psychotherapy","volume":"13 1","pages":"5 - 21"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49354760","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/21507686.2022.2036209
C. Yu, Jasvinda Ng, Siu-Sing Wong
ABSTRACT Previous research suggests that more attractive therapists can encourage clients to disclose themselves more. On account of the halo effect, it can be conjectured that this relationship is mediated by other perceived attributes of therapists, such as their counselling competence and empathic understanding. Nonetheless, no study has been undertaken to examine this mediation effect. This study was therefore geared towards testing the indirect effect of therapists’ physical attractiveness on clients’ inclination towards self-disclosure via therapists’ core attributes. In addition, the application of cosmetic makeup, therapist age, and client sex were considered. A total of 129 young adults were recruited to complete the Therapist Attribute Inventory and Jourard Self-Disclosure Questionnaire based on one of the four photographs of female therapists with or without wearing makeup. The data was analysed using 7 PROCESS Macro models. The results indicate that positive ratings on perceived therapist attractiveness can be transferred to other therapist attributes, which in turn promote clients’ inclination towards self-disclosure. The application of cosmetics has an impact on this mediation effect, albeit being in an unexpected fashion. This has implications for whether therapists should wear makeup in a Hong Kong Chinese counselling setting and how it would affect clients’ self-disclosure.
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Pub Date : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/21507686.2022.2040125
D. Zhou, Nigel S. Thompson, Kwok Ho Ling
As a global community, we are tested by various large-scale challenges – epidemiological, cultural, sociopolitical, and etc. These continually call upon our individual and collective capacities to strengthen our resilience, meaning, empathy and mutual support. As we remember those among us who have passed on, our fear, grief, and loss in the face of the spectres of illness and mortality are ever counter-balanced by our existential commitment: to recognize and embody the gifts, the legacies, and the enduring, living contributions of our honoured deceased. In the fall of 2021, the field of psychology felt the departure of two luminaries and historical giants of the profession, Dr. Aaron T. Beck and Dr. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi. The beauty, relevance, and utter timeliness of their contributions and of each of their life’s works adds poignancy to this loss. Both of these men contributed strongly to the precise tools and frameworks so crucial to human sustenance and to thriving-through difficult and uncertain times. Dr. Beck is widely acknowledged as the father of cognitive therapy and cognitive behavioural therapy, arguably the definitive approach to modern helping profession. His direct and indirect beneficial impacts on the lived experiences of countless human beings are prodigious: research, theoretical formulation, countless clinical hours, and most notably the shaping and training of future generations of subsequent scientists, doctors, researchers, and helping professionals up to and including the present-day (Beck, 1967, 1972, 1975, 1989, 1999; Beck & Alford, 2009; Beck et al., 2005, 2003) Dr. Csikszentmihalyi is recognized as one of the great contributors of Positive Psychology. He drew on his ongoing research and keen observations to develop the innovative and influential concept of ‘Flow’ – a vital human capacity of systemic engagement, long since integrated into the professional and popular lexicon. His works (Csikszentmihalyi, 1975, 1978, 1990, 1994, 1996, 1998, 2003, 2014)investigated, celebrated, and mapped out the human family’s diverse pathways to happiness, motivation, and creativity. In times of loss and instability, we seek out and engage inner and interpersonal resources to face pain; we gather courage and compassion; we creatively generate strategies of living and structures of meaning. Aiding, clarifying, and facilitating these worthy efforts is the essence of the counselling and therapeutic enterprise. The contributions of Aaron T. Beck and Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi to this field were tremendous and the shadows of their influence stretch long. They live on through the many colleagues continuing to advance their work and in the countless people continuing to heal, to benefit, and to thrive by means of that work. ASIA PACIFIC JOURNAL OF COUNSELLING AND PSYCHOTHERAPY 2022, VOL. 13, NO. 1, 1–4 https://doi.org/10.1080/21507686.2022.2040125
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Pub Date : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/21507686.2022.2036784
Thanapol Leangsuksant, Nattasuda Taephant
ABSTRACT This study aims to validate instrumental qualities including reliabilities and construct validity of the short form Thai version of the Working Alliance Inventory (WAI-S). The instrument was developed using a three-step translation process. A sample consists of 102 clients who attended counselling sessions at a university in Thailand. The reliabilities of the Thai WAI-S were high. The confirmatory factor analysis found that both 1-dimension or 3-interrelated dimension models were equally fit and can be used to measure working alliance depending on the research objective.
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Pub Date : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/21507686.2022.2036210
J. B. B. Lagarde, J. M. Cauyan, M. Laurino, M. J. Tumulak, M. San Juan, E. Ventura
ABSTRACT Psychosocial implications of breast cancer diagnosis in families typically focused on marital and mother-daughter relationships. The lack of sibling-oriented perspectives on this phenomenon led this present study to investigate the experiences of Filipino women living with a sister diagnosed with breast cancer. Using the phenomenological approach of inquiry, semi-structured interviews were conducted to twelve purposively sampled women recruited from the Breast Care Center-Philippine General Hospital between January to February 2017. Qualitative data were analysed using thematic analysis. Findings revealed that the participants have encountered many facets of the impact of the cancer journey, and these oftentimes led to unwanted personal and familial adjustments. Hence, improving the provision of services that address the psychosocial effects of cancer is warranted.
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Pub Date : 2021-07-03DOI: 10.1080/21507686.2021.1966889
D. Zhou, Ho Ling Kwok
Greetings! Welcome to the second issue of the Asia Pacific Journal of Counselling and Psychotherapy in 2021! This is a collection of counselling and psychotherapy-related studies specific to Asian cultures, including Hong Kong, Sri Lanka, China, Taiwan, and Singapore. In this issue, we bring a series of impressive articles that cover topics including therapeutic alliance, assessment approaches, strength-centred therapy and supervisory identity development. A good collaborative relationship between client and therapist, i.e., therapeutic alliance, plays a crucial role in therapeutic outcomes. Lek Hon Edmond Pong, Raysen Cheung and Calvin Kai-Ching Yu examine the predictive powers of clients’ personality traits, affective attributes, relationship security, and expectations on therapeutic working alliance in the Hong Kong Chinese context. They propose a model which comprises three factors including relationship insecurity, caring, and client involvement. Hopefully, counsellors and psychotherapists can attain insights on building up a good therapeutic alliance with clients in Chinese context. In building up a therapeutic relationship, a deep understanding of clients is crucially important. There are many effective ways to acquire such understanding. Many psychological professionals use psychological tests or psychometric scales to explore clients’ personalities, emotional functioning, and thinking patterns. The Rorschach Inkblot Test is a projective psychological test, which can be used for this purpose. James Yu and Queenie Lee argue that a lifeworld assessment approach allows collaboration between client and therapist to explore life themes and personal meanings of the assessment data. They innovatively integrate this approach with the use of the Rorschach Inkblot Test for the purpose of initial therapeutic exploration. The key assessment process is illustrated with a child case in Hong Kong. Authenticity can be used as one of the indicators of a person’s psychological wellbeing. Piyanjali de Zoysa, Shamala Kumar, Santushi D Amarasuriya, and Navneth S R Mendis discuss their application of the Sinhala version of the Authenticity Scale to undergraduate students in Sri Lanka. Their results elucidate how the construct of authenticity can be appropriately and effectively operationalized and assessed; and how authenticity may vary as a function of gender and faculty of study. They discuss the potential use of the Sinhala version of the scale. The authors observe higher authenticity in females than in males. This reminds therapists to consider gender-related factors in counselling sessions. Jonah Li and Joel Wong propose that strength-centred therapy can be a positive and culturally flexible therapeutic approach for Chinese clients. They explore the compatibility of strength-centred therapy with Chinese virtues and Chinese indigenous ASIA PACIFIC JOURNAL OF COUNSELLING AND PSYCHOTHERAPY 2021, VOL. 12, NO. 2, 109–110 https://doi.org/10.1080/21507686.2021.1
问候！欢迎收看《亚太咨询与心理治疗杂志》2021年第二期！这是一组针对亚洲文化的咨询和心理治疗相关研究，包括香港、斯里兰卡、中国、台湾和新加坡。在本期中，我们将带来一系列令人印象深刻的文章，涵盖治疗联盟、评估方法、以力量为中心的治疗和监督身份发展等主题。客户和治疗师之间良好的合作关系，即治疗联盟，对治疗结果起着至关重要的作用。Lek Hon Edmond Pong、Raysen Cheung和Calvin Kai-Ching Yu研究了香港中国背景下客户的个性特征、情感特征、关系安全和对治疗工作联盟的期望的预测能力。他们提出了一个包括三个因素的模型，包括关系不安全、关心和客户参与。希望咨询师和心理治疗师能够在中国背景下与客户建立良好的治疗联盟。在建立治疗关系时，深入了解客户至关重要。有许多有效的方法可以获得这种理解。许多心理专业人士使用心理测试或心理测量量表来探究客户的性格、情绪功能和思维模式。罗夏墨迹测验是一种投射性心理测验，可用于此目的。James Yu和Queenie Lee认为，生活世界评估方法允许客户和治疗师合作，探索评估数据的生活主题和个人意义。他们创新性地将这种方法与罗夏墨迹测试的使用相结合，以进行初步的治疗探索。香港的一个儿童案例说明了关键评估过程。真实性可以作为一个人心理健康的指标之一。Piyanjali de Zoysa、Shamala Kumar、Santushi D Amarasuriya和Navneth S R Mendis讨论了他们将僧伽罗语版本的真实性量表应用于斯里兰卡本科生。他们的研究结果阐明了如何适当有效地操作和评估真实性的结构；以及真实性如何随着性别和学习能力的变化而变化。他们讨论了僧伽罗语版本量表的潜在用途。作者观察到女性的真实性高于男性。这提醒治疗师在咨询过程中要考虑与性别相关的因素。李（Jonah Li）和黄（Joel Wong）提出，以力量为中心的治疗方法对中国客户来说是一种积极且文化上灵活的治疗方法。他们探讨了以力量为中心的治疗与中华美德的兼容性，以及《中国土著亚太地区咨询与心理治疗杂志》2021，第12卷，第2期，109-110https://doi.org/10.1080/21507686.2021.1966889
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Pub Date : 2021-07-03DOI: 10.1080/21507686.2021.1925313
P. F. J. Li, Joel Wong
ABSTRACT Although positive therapies have demonstrated effectiveness in Western contexts, their cross-cultural applications have been questioned. This article proposes that Strength-Centered Therapy (ST) can be a promising and culturally flexible therapeutic approach for Chinese clients. After overviewing ST, the authors discuss the compatibility of ST with Chinese virtues and the notions of self-development advocated in dominant Chinese indigenous philosophies, namely, Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism. Along with ST’s clinical flexibility, the authors propose that the compatibility of ST makes it a culturally flexible therapeutic approach to use with clients from Chinese cultures. The authors also describe a case example with Chinese cultural backgrounds, showcasing the phases and techniques of ST. Implications for research and practice are discussed.
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Pub Date : 2021-07-03DOI: 10.1080/21507686.2021.1960398
Shayne S‐H Lin, Emily T. Liu
ABSTRACT The present study investigated emotional change following emotional self-disclosure, and the effects of cognitive reframing and socio-affective regulation modes in a Taiwanese sample. Data from 120 participants were collected from a university in northern Taiwan. Participants recalled a negative memory and disclosed the memory to a confederate via internet. Participants were randomly assigned to one of four conditions: 1) cognitive reframing, 2) socio-affective, 3) combined group, and 4) control group. Two sets of mixed factorial ANOVA were implemented to examine emotional change in response to cognitive reframing and socio-affective regulation modes. Results indicated that only cognitive reframing regulation mode facilitated emotional change over and beyond the effect of emotional self-disclosure. Relevant research findings and clinical implications were discussed.
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