INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF COUNSELLING最新文献

Jordan continues to be one of the leading host countries globally, accommodating an unprecedented number of refugee schoolchildren in its schools in refugee camps. In order to address the diverse educational, psychological, and social needs of these children, school counselors (SCs) strive to develop and implement comprehensive counseling programs. This qualitative study aimed to examine the specific supervisory needs encountered by SCs working in primary schools within the Al Za'atari refugee camp. Through the utilization of interpretive phenomenological analysis, researchers interviewed 10 school counselors to explore the supervisory needs of school counselors in Al Za’atari. Five main supervisory themes were found: specialized interventions for the refugee schoolchildren, multicultural challenges, the dynamics of the counseling relationship, diagnosis of childhood psychological disorders, and self-care and anti-burnout interventions. The findings provided valuable insights for supporting SCs in refugee camp by continues training, supervision, and suggested potential directions for future research in this domain.

Eating disorders (EDs) are multicultural concerns that impact people with diverse cultural and social identities. However, scholars highlight prevalent gaps in the literature regarding culturally responsive assessment and treatment for underserved groups with EDs, such as the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender/two-spirit, gender expansive, queer/questioning, intersex, asexual, pansexual (LGBTGEQIAP+) community. We developed and validated the Multidimensional Eating and Body Image Screening (MEBIS), a screening tool to examine risk and protective factors for eating and body image concerns in LGBTGEQIAP+ individuals. The MEBIS items were developed based on a comprehensive literature review and feedback from an expert panel and a small sample of LGBTGEQIAP+ individuals. Two separate community samples were recruited for exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses. The MEBIS has a nine-factor structure with adequate fit, acceptable internal consistency reliability, and convergent evidence with a scale measuring similar constructs. Given the call for more intersectional, social justice-informed ED research, the MEBIS may assist counselors with broaching relevant cultural constructs and incorporating affirming counseling approaches. Limitations and directions for future research are explored further to advance efforts in culturally responsive ED assessment and treatment.

Career adaptability is a factor that determines the success of undergraduate students from the provinces of Papua and West Papua in completing their education. Therefore, this research aims to assess the influence of perceived social support from parents, friends, and lecturers on career adaptability as mediated by core self-evaluation in undergraduate students from the provinces of Papua and West Papua. The research respondents were 176 undergraduate students (female = 104; male = 72) from the provinces of Papua and West Papua who attended either public or private universities in various regions in Indonesia. The research instruments used include three types of scales, namely, Social Provision Scale, Core Self-Evaluation Scale, and Career Adapt-abilities Scale, which are distributed within the network (online). The Hayes’ macro-PROCESS was used for handling data processing. The test results show that core self-evaluation partially mediates the influence of perceived social support from parents (ab = 0.110, p < 0.05), friends (ab = 0.114, p < 0.05), and lecturers (ab = 0.139, p < 0.05) on the career adaptability of undergraduate students from the provinces of Papua and West Papua. The implications, limitations, and suggestions for the research will be discussed.

The purpose of this study was to compare the performance of international and domestic counselors-in-training attending a CACREP-accredited counseling program in the northwest region of the U.S. The effectiveness and efficiency of reducing distress levels were compared between these two groups of students. We examined the outcome of 286 clients seen by 57 counselors-in-training over 1-year period in a University Training Counseling Center. Data were analyzed using mixed ANOVA to determine and to evaluate clients’ treatment outcomes per group of counselors. Results indicated a significant decrease in the clients’ distress scores, and there were no significant differences in effectiveness and efficiency between international and domestic counselors-in-training. Implications are made for counselor educators and researchers.

In this study, we have carried out an in-depth, idiographic exploration of how Indian clients describe their experiences of emotional abuse in a parent-adult child context from a social justice lens. This study focused on the contribution of persisting systemic influences, including gender and culture, in maintaining emotional abuse. We collected data from seven participants through a semi-structured interview schedule, and utilized an interpretative phenomenological analysis for the research design and analysis. Findings indicated various cultural and gender norms were responsible for contributing to and maintaining emotional abuse. The five master themes developed included Unmet Emotional Needs, Mental Health Issues due to Impact of Emotional Abuse, Gender and Culture Norms as Backgrounded, Unfair and Oppressive Norms and Attitudes, and Intergenerational Nature of Norms, Beliefs, and Abuse. Implications for counsellors, policymakers, and researchers in the fields of counselling and psychotherapy, social justice, social psychology, and critical psychology are discussed.

Women’s body dissatisfaction is negatively associated with mental health and career-related outcomes. Despite the high prevalence of body dissatisfaction and dieting among younger South Korean adults, this relationship and its underlying mechanism remain underexamined. Therefore, we examined South Korean female college students’ body dissatisfaction, perceived gender discrimination, belief in a just world (BJW), and career-choice pessimism by testing a moderated mediation model. Body dissatisfaction was negatively related to BJW, but only at medium and high levels of perceived gender discrimination. Furthermore, we found support for a moderated mediation effect in which BJW mediated the relationship between body dissatisfaction and career-choice pessimism, but only at medium and high levels of perceived gender discrimination. These findings highlighted the relevance of body dissatisfaction and BJW to understand Korean female college students’ career-choice pessimism in the context of gender discrimination.

Adolescence is a period during which individuals experience numerous changes. During this adaptation process, adolescents often feel themselves in a terrible mess. This study examined the mediator role of emotion regulation in the relationship between parental emotional availability and resilience in adolescents. The study was conducted in 4 high schools in the central district of Muş province. The participants were 909 students ages 14–19 years; the average age was 16.01 years (SD = 1.06). The researcher used the Lum Emotional Availability of Parents (LEAP) scale to measure parental emotional availability. The Resilience Scale and the Emotion Regulation Scale were used to collect the data related to adolescents’ resilience and emotional control. The hypothesis model was developed to determine the direct and indirect effects of independent variables on the dependent variables. To test this model, a structural equation modeling was used to analyze paths. Based on modeling results, mother’s emotional availability had no direct effect on resilience; however, father’s emotional availability had a direct effect on resilience. The important result of the study is showing emotion regulation mediated the relationship between parental emotional availability (mother and father) and students’ resilience.

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Pregnancy is a developmental period with distinct practical and attitudinal factors that affect mental health help-seeking. Within the Latine community, the inclusion of family values in therapy is associated with positive outcomes, suggesting that social relationships may contribute to help-seeking behavior for this population. This study aimed to describe the roles that social relationships play in pregnant Latines’ consideration of psychotherapy. We conducted an inductive qualitative content analysis of 25 interview transcripts assessing the acceptability of an evidence-based psychological intervention, exposure therapy, among English-speaking pregnant Latines with elevated anxiety. Emergent themes revealed that participants were motivated to seek anxiety treatment to improve family well-being, experienced internal conflict between prioritizing care for self and fulfilling their familial role, and were impacted by their close others’ attitudes toward and experiences with therapy. Findings suggest a need to address both positive and negative influences of social relationships when engaging pregnant Latines in prospective psychotherapeutic care to improve motivation, engagement, and potential outcomes, which may reduce care disparities during pregnancy.

Undergraduate students from Papua region are confronted with challenges that may hinder their academic career. Developing career adaptability has become a crucial factor in addressing such challenges effectively. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to examine how core self-evaluation (CSE) moderates the relationship between perceived parental support (PPS) and career adaptability. Participants comprised 180 undergraduate students from Papua region, and the instruments used for measurement were Career Adapt-Abilities Scale (CAAS), Social Provision, and CSE Scale. Data analysis was statistically conducted using the PROCESS macro by Hayes. The results showed that CSE moderated the influence of PPS on career adaptability among university students from Papua region.

This article reports on the validation of the Korean version of the Anger Discomfort Scale (ADS-K) in samples comprising college students and community-based adults living in South Korea (n = 765). The Anger Discomfort Scale (ADS) is a 15-item scale designed to assess levels of discomfort associated with both the experience and expression of anger in interpersonal contexts. For psychometric property testing, survey data were analyzed with advanced multivariate methods, focusing on aspects of validity and reliability. The properties of the total scores are examined by descriptive statistics. The results of exploratory factor analysis and confirmatory factor analysis identified the structure of the ADS-K as a well-defined bi-factor model. Correlational analyses indicated that anger discomfort was positively associated with anger suppression, anger expression, trait anxiety, and constructs related to anxiety in interpersonal relationships (e.g., fear of evaluation by others and expectations of negative interpersonal results). Implications for the use of the ADS-K and future directions are suggested.