Pub Date : 2020-01-02DOI: 10.1080/21507686.2020.1721784
D. Zhou, Ho Ling Kwok
Welcome to the 11th volume of Asia Pacific Journal of Counselling and Psychotherapy! It has been a decade since the first publication of this journal. Continuous efforts of all our editorial board members, colleagues of Taylor & Francis, authors and reviewers, as well as support from our readers, are indispensable to the sustainable development of your journal. I am glad to have been your companion in the editorial process these past years. This issue brings a series of impressive articles from Canada, Australia, India, Singapore, Malaysia and Korea. I hope that the innovative ideas presented in these articles will inspire readers in the discipline of counselling and psychotherapy. It is known that counselling and psychotherapy sessions usually take place in a ‘secure’ place, such as a counselling or a psychotherapy room. It is refreshing when we read of alternatives – David Walters reflects on his clinical experiences in the use of museums and galleries as places for psychodynamic art therapy. His framework of psychodynamic art therapy emphasizes the possibility of using artworks to enrich projective conversations, bringing unconsciousness into consciousness, and hence this mode of encounter results in a therapeutic experience of art. Walters also discusses essential ethical and professional considerations in this specialized form of arts-based psychotherapeutic practice. Not only are the psychotherapy venues can be expanded, but the methods used to enhance personal developments for counsellors in training are also considered with a need to involve up-to-date interventions discussed in the next article. Mindfulness as a psychotherapeutic intervention remains a hot topic. Mindfulness impacts on lives and contributes positively and influences our clients’ well-being. Mindfulness may also be applied to the field of initial counsellor education. Mark Pearson comments on the counselling interns’ direct experiences in practising mindfulness. He considers especially the inevitable struggles, efforts and challenges that trainee counsellors face and the role of mindfulness in assisting in the reduction of stress. The insights from this article provide valuable information about the benefits and potential obstacles of mindfulness practice, which may inspire both counselling educators as well as counsellor trainees. Mindfulness may facilitate reflective thinking and self-care in the personal growth of counsellor trainees. A strong therapeutic alliance is crucial for positive psychotherapy outcomes. It is only when people with special needs are willing to seek help that counsellors and psychotherapists can use psychotherapeutic skills to facilitate in their healing process. In some cultures, such as in Indian society, the stigma of engaging with a counselling service remains a barrier that discourages people from looking for professional psychological help. People are afraid of being ‘teased’ by peers about seeking counselling service. Anuja S. Panicker, M.
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Pub Date : 2020-01-02DOI: 10.1080/21507686.2019.1704807
Anuja S. Panicker, M. Samskani, S. Vimala, G. Poornima, Merlin Veronika
ABSTRACT The process of professional development during the course of medical education is frequently faced with stressors and setbacks in academic, personal, familial and social domains. The present research explored the attitudes, barriers and perceived benefits of counselling services among 692 undergraduate medical students using the Counselling Need Assessment Questionnaire. It was found that 50% of the participants accepted that there was a need for counselling for both themselves as well as for friends and 75% also felt that that mild stress could be relieved with the help of counselling. The barriers that students faced for approaching counselling services as well as the perceived areas of benefits were also explored.
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Pub Date : 2020-01-02DOI: 10.1080/21507686.2019.1703772
M. Pearson
ABSTRACT Mindfulness can support clients and can support trainee counsellors in dealing with internship anxiety. Since the personal development of a counsellor is core to therapy outcomes, the positive impact of mindfulness practice on therapeutic presence validates mindfulness programs within counsellor education. This qualitative study applied thematic analysis to written reports from 53 post-graduate counselling interns who participated in piloting an eight-week mindfulness challenge. Six major themes emerged: the variety of mindfulness activities, observations of self, insights about self and mindfulness, hindrances to practice, outcomes from participation, and advice for others. Intern reports indicated that mindfulness was not easy to learn, could be explored through a range of activities, and for most the practice contributed to growth in self-awareness.
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Pub Date : 2020-01-02DOI: 10.1080/21507686.2019.1708425
V. Pillai, Oliver Sündermann
ABSTRACT Preliminary evidence suggests that racial teasing can adversely affect the body image of ethnic minority groups. This study investigated the frequency of racial teasing across ethnic groups, related distress and skin colour dissatisfaction, and examined whether racial teasing predicts body dysmorphic disorder symptoms. A cross-sectional web-based survey was completed by 287 participants, identified as Chinese, Malay or Indian in Singapore (Mage = 23.05, SDage = 4.63). Ethnic minority participants reported higher frequency, distress and skin colour dissatisfaction than Chinese individuals. Past distress due to skin colour teasing predicted skin colour dissatisfaction. Lastly, racial teasing predicted body dysmorphic symptoms over and above control variables. Racial teasing appears to be a significant source of appearance concerns that should not be overlooked.
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Pub Date : 2020-01-02DOI: 10.1080/21507686.2019.1704808
Yoonhee Sung
ABSTRACT The present study tested the mediating effects of fathers’ violence on the relationships among Korean young adults’ perceptions of their fathers’ gender role conflict, the quality of their relationships with their fathers, and depressive symptoms. Three hundred fifty six Korean university students in South Korea participated in the study. The hypothesized model was tested by using structural equation modelling. Results indicated fathers’ violence fully mediated the relationship between fathers’ perceived gender role conflict for Success, Power and Competition and paternal relationship quality, and partially mediated the relationship between fathers’ perceived Restrictive Emotionality and paternal relationship quality. Fathers’ perceived Restrictive Emotionality was also associated with their own depressive symptoms. Results were contextualized within dynamics of South Korean society and culture.
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Pub Date : 2020-01-02DOI: 10.1080/21507686.2019.1703773
David Walters
ABSTRACT Galleries and museums house objects and artefacts of potential benefit to the practice of psychodynamic psychotherapy. This paper reflects on the notion of art as therapy, the ability of artistic elements to address the unconscious, and the utility of developing a phenomenology of psychodynamic art therapy. The case of Jonathan (‘fictional case composite’) is described, i.e. his psychotherapy as prompted and furthered by the use of gallery images. According to the psychoanalytic theory of Freud, the language of words, and that of images, may well correspond to the workings of conscious and unconscious. The therapeutic experience of art is likely to include psychoanalytic phenomena (reverie, reflection, reverberation, the uncanny) that may be redirected to self-awareness, personal change and growth..
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Pub Date : 2020-01-02DOI: 10.1080/21507686.2019.1702069
Sarada Devi R. Subramaniam, M. Sumari, N. Md Khalid
ABSTRACT The study uses a phenomenological approach to explore teenagers’ conceptualization of wellness after parental divorce. Ten teenagers between 16 and 18, who all have a minimum of one year of living as a part of a divorce family, participated in this study, which was conducted in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Data were gathered through semi-structured interviews and were triangulated with information gathered while monitoring contents from participants’ social media profiles. Nine themes emerged from the data analysis: (1) Reluctant to confront their parents’ divorce, (2) Willingness to express and reflect, (3) Acceptance of parental divorce, (4) Forgiveness of their parents, (5) Letting it go and moving on with life, (6) Acceptance of support from others, (7) Spiritual inclination, (8) Self-help, and (9) Helping others.
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Pub Date : 2019-07-03DOI: 10.1080/21507686.2019.1636836
Edward Hoffman, Alison Tran, Hidekazu Sasaki, Yurie Igarashi
ABSTRACT This study was conducted to follow up an earlier investigation which examined tears of joy (TOJ) among Japanese undergraduates. In the present investigation, 193 Japanese adults (age range = 31 to above 81; 46.7% were older than age 60) responded to a survey inquiring if they had ever experienced TOJ. If they answered affirmatively, they were asked their frequency of TOJ, when was their most recent TOJ episode, and to what extent it relieved their stress and improved their physical well-being immediately afterwards. The vast majority (83.4%) had experienced TOJ in their life. However, TOJ frequency was sharply divergent: although 38% reported TOJ in the past month, 26.1% had not experienced TOJ in over 12 months. Consistent with previous studies, TOJ frequency was significantly associated with high self-reported emotionality compared to peers. For men, TOJ frequency was associated with self-reported effectiveness in coping with stress. Among participants in middle adulthood (age = 41 to 60) but not later adulthood (age 61 and older), TOJ frequency was associated with both stress relief and enhanced physical well-being after a TOJ episode. The implications for strengthening resilience among post-college-age Japanese are discussed and avenues for further research are highlighted.
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Pub Date : 2019-07-03DOI: 10.1080/21507686.2019.1640970
D. Zhou, Ho Ling Kwok
Welcome to the second issue of Asia Pacific Journal of Counselling and Psychotherapy in 2019! This issue includes eight selected articles with the major themes of help-seeking, coping, and validation of an assessment instrument. Authors draw attention to the conditions in diverse cultures, including those of Hong Kong, Japan, Malaysia, Bangladesh, Cambodia, Uganda, and Australia. Mental health professionals from all over the world have a common mission: to help their clients by promoting their psychological well-being. People of different cultural backgrounds may hold different attitudes towards help-seeking. In general, Westerners are more open to the use of mental health services than Asians. Raise Chan, Nigel Thompson and Calvin Yu compare help-seeking attitude, locus of control and emotional expressivity across Hong Kong people and Westerners and explore the relationships between these three factors. This inspires helping professionals to take cultural values into account when providing counselling services to clients of different cultural origins. The study conducted by Miki Noda, Yu Sakagami and Hiroshi Tsujimoto examines help-seeking behaviours in the Asian context. Overwhelming work-related stress can cause mental illness. Yet, people with mental disorders in Japan are often reluctant to seek mental health services. The authors explore the subjective experiences and psychological processes of employees who are accessing mental health services. They highlight how the strong and deeply-rooted sense of working role in the minds of Japanese employees can impede them from seeking mental health services and affect treatment outcomes. This reminds Japanese mental health professionals to be aware of the fixation and prioritization of ‘worker’ identity. Help-seeking is not restricted to the general public alone. Facing people with different emotional needs on a constant basis renders mental health practitioners vulnerable to burnout. Since they are trained to support the mental health of others, they are sometimes hesitant to seek help for themselves. Marieke Ledingham, Peter Standen, Chris Skinner and Robbie Busch utilise survey and semi-structured interviews to explore burnout-related beliefs and perceptions among mental health practitioners. The results of this study alert practitioners, supervisors and educators about the importance of self-care. Support for helping professionals is crucially important. Lacking systemic support, counsellors can experience the same mental health challenges as their clients. Lorien Jordan, Desiree Seponski and Stephanie Armes uncover the experiences of counsellors in Cambodia, where the counselling profession is still a newly-developing field. The participants’ shared accounts provide insights about the essential support they need. ASIA PACIFIC JOURNAL OF COUNSELLING AND PSYCHOTHERAPY 2019, VOL. 10, NO. 2, 93–94 https://doi.org/10.1080/21507686.2019.1640970
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Pub Date : 2019-07-03DOI: 10.1080/21507686.2019.1636835
Wilber Karugahe
ABSTRACT This study examined the relationship between home roles, stress and coping strategies among 100 nurses in Kampala selected using stratified and random sampling techniques. Data was analyzed using Spearman rank order correlation and regression used to test coping as a moderation in the relationship between home roles and stress. Results revealed that home roles are not significantly related. However, results also revealed that both home roles and stress were both significantly related to coping strategies. Results revealed that coping predicts insignificant effect on the relationship between home roles and stress. Also, the relationship between home roles and stress was inverse. This study finding explores strategies that could aid nurses to deal with work stress, strengthen nurses and clients’ relationship which ultimately could influence effective Counselling and Psychotherapy.
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