Journal of Counseling Psychology最新文献

Rural youth with low educational attainment are among one of the most vulnerable populations in China and face numerous challenges in the school-to-work transition (STWT) process. This study aimed to investigate the barriers and facilitators to the career development of vocational college graduates from rural China, with a particular focus on how these factors affected their entry into the workforce. As a secondary aim, we explored their view of work. We conducted a consensual qualitative analysis of 18 interviews with Chinese vocational college graduates from rural areas. Barriers to their STWT included economic constraints, low educational attainment, unfavorable labor market conditions, and a lack of social networks in cities, while protective resources included government financial support, family emotional support, support from school professionals, connections with individuals from their village, and critical consciousness. Moreover, our participants aspired to jobs that would allow them to meet survival needs, enjoy leisure time, achieve education-employment fit, and facilitate personal growth. The results empirically confirmed the recent adaptation of the STWT model from the psychology of working theory in a non-Western context. Implications for future studies and interventions to facilitate STWT are discussed. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).

Research has indicated that clients' perceptions of their therapist's cultural humility are important factors in positive treatment outcomes. However, there is a paucity of research examining whether therapists become more culturally humble over time. In this study, we advance this area of literature by testing whether therapists' cultural humility increases with more clinical experience using data from 1,640 clients seen by 21 therapists in a university counseling center over a 4-year time period. Clients rated their therapist's cultural humility starting at the third session and every four sessions after that. Two-level multilevel models (clients nested within therapists) were used to examine the relationship between therapist experience and client pre-post effect size (Cohen's d), average, and baseline cultural humility ratings. Experience was examined both as chronological time and cumulative clients seen. Results indicated that clients' initial and average ratings of their therapist's cultural humility significantly decreased over time as a function of chronological time and cumulative cases, albeit these effects were small. By contrast, therapists' client pre-post changes in cultural humility did not significantly change over time. Last, the relationship between client average, baseline, and pre-post change in cultural humility did not significantly vary between therapists. Implications for training and clinical practice as well as future research are discussed. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).

Family socioeconomic status (SES) is one key antecedent of adolescents' career adaptability; understanding the mechanisms through which family SES influences career outcomes is thus essential. Grounded in the career self-management model, this study leveraged three-wave data from a sample of 3,196 Chinese adolescents (15.56 ± .58 years old; 52.72% girls) to examine the potential mediating roles of adolescents' self-efficacy on career goal setting and exploration in the association between family SES and adolescents' career adaptability and also test the potential moderating roles of adolescents' relationship quality with various important others (i.e., parents, teachers, and peers) in such associations. Results demonstrated that family SES (Wave 1) was positively associated with adolescents' career adaptability (Wave 3, controlling for the baseline) via positive associations with both adolescents' self-efficacy on career goal setting and exploration (Wave 2, controlling for the baseline). Moreover, relationship quality with parents (Wave 1) and teachers (Wave 1) bolstered the positive association between family SES (Wave 1) and adolescents' career goal-setting self-efficacy (Wave 2). Ultimately, the indirect effect involving career goal-setting self-efficacy was stronger when adolescents had higher (vs. lower) relationship quality with teachers. Implications for research and practice were discussed. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).

The psychological mediation framework (PMF) has been used to examine how mechanisms explain the relations between minority stress and mental health disparities among lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, asexual, and agender (LGBTQIA+) communities. Though important in understanding LGBTQIA+ mental health, existing PMF research is deficit-focused and does not include the collective and individual strengths LGBTQIA+ people possess that are associated with well-being. Using a sample of 625 LGBTQIA+ people, the present study proposed a preliminary strengths-based PMF to examine how identity-specific and general strengths help explain the link between LGBTQIA+ community resilience and life satisfaction. Structural equation modeling analyses demonstrated that LGBTQIA+ community resilience was directly associated with life satisfaction, identity-specific strengths (e.g., identity affirmation, identity centrality, authenticity, relationship intimacy), and general strengths processes (e.g., self-compassion, hope, social support). Analyses suggested that higher LGBTQIA+ community resilience was associated with higher identity affirmation, which, in turn, was associated with decreased life satisfaction. LGBTQIA+ community resilience was also associated with life satisfaction through the general strengths processes of hope and social support. Our findings provide a preliminary strengths-based PMF that can be used to expand LGBTQIA+ PMF research. Implications for clinical practice and community-level interventions are discussed. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).