Journal of Humanistic Counseling最新文献

The primary objective of this study was to explore posttraumatic growth in adults who lived alone during the shelter-in-place (SIP) phase of the pandemic. Semistructured interviews were conducted with nine adults between the ages of 33 and 56 several weeks into SIP. Transcripts were analyzed using thematic analysis. Five themes emerged from participant interviews: connection, prior recent hardship, gratitude, spiritual practice, and relationship with self. By exploring the experiences of those who thrived while living alone during the SIP phase, this study aimed to provide a nuanced understanding of the psychological processes underlying positive adaptation amidst crisis. Our findings highlight the importance of fostering connections, both interpersonal and intrapersonal, as a means of promoting resilience and growth during times of crisis. The themes of gratitude, spiritual practice, and a positive relationship with self underscore the significance of existential and humanistic concepts, such as meaning-making, self-reflection, and personal growth.

Graduate students regularly experience anxiety, sleep disturbances, and depression, but little research exists on how to support their mental health. We evaluated the effects of a single-session, online, synchronous, happiness workshop on graduate student well-being, mental health, and physical health. Forty-five students participated in a quasi-experimental study. Students attended a synchronous 2.5-h online happiness workshop, or a no-workshop control condition. After workshop completion and as compared with no-treatment controls, participants reported significant reductions in depression symptoms but no significant changes on seven other measures. At 6 months, participants reported further reductions in depression symptoms. Moreover, across four open-ended questions, 37.0%–48.1% of workshop participants (a) recalled workshop tools, (b) found them useful, (c) had been practicing them regularly, and (d) used them in sessions with clients. Despite study limitations, single-session, synchronous, online, happiness workshops may have salutatory effects on graduate student mental health. Additional research is needed.

This article explores integrating mindfulness within psychotherapy through dialectical humanism. The author integrates Buddhist, Jewish, and contemporary psychology perspectives to explore three dialectical tensions in psychotherapy: striving versus acceptance, becoming versus being, and relevancy versus regularity. The author offers integrative mindfulness techniques for counselors to use with clients.

Corrective feedback can be a difficult endeavor in supervision. This article focuses on the following six principles of humanistic education that can facilitate corrective feedback: a nonthreatening environment, affective bias, self-evaluation, connectedness, self-determination, and personal growth orientation. These principles offer a framework for providing culturally sensitive supervision and corrective feedback. Implications for counseling supervision are included.

Counselors and counseling students (N = 125) were surveyed to determine whether curiosity could predict Intellectual Wellness. Structure coefficients found Diversive Curiosity accounted for 19% of the variance and Specific Curiosity for 11%. Implications are including curiosity into training and practice and future research on isolating variables that comprise wellness domains.

This study combined asset (i.e., strength) assessment, measured by the Search Institute's Asset Checklist, and humanistic counseling approaches to measure effects on self-reported assets in two similar vulnerable adolescent populations in therapeutic residential treatment centers located in the rural Rocky Mountain West. Results indicated that seven of eight asset categories increased from baseline to follow-up assessment, with four of those categories having statistically significant increases. Total Asset scores also indicated substantial overall asset building during treatment. Suggestions are included, especially for one concerning area, Constructive Use of Time.

Classical humanistic philosophy and psychology both infer the persistence of a stable, authentic, and volitional self, which neither fully coheres with the values implicit to professional counseling nor offers sufficient relevance to culturally diverse client groups. As an alternative, the authors suggest that humanistic counseling can emerge as a distinct discipline of practice independent of its early influences. Further, the authors offer a dialogical alternative for humanistic counseling practice that might better support contemporary clients and their various social determinants of experience.

We surveyed a national sample of helping professionals (N = 382) in ascertaining attitudes toward, behaviors related to, and needs for addressing climate change as part of counseling. Two factors of EcoWellness and a helping professional's personal commitment to climate change contributed to a professional commitment to addressing climate change in counseling.