Qualitative story completion for counseling psychology research: A creative method to interrogate dominant discourses.
This article provides an introduction to qualitative SC, explaining the method and its origins, and offering practical guidance about how to use it. The method is illustrated with examples from the existing SC literature and a hypothetical study focused on understandings of mental health difficulties in the workplace. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Journal of Counseling Psychology)
Source: Journal of Counseling Psychology - May 27, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Digital storytelling methodologies: Recommendations for a participatory approach to engaging underrepresented communities in counseling psychology research.
While counseling psychologists made substantial proposals to advance qualitative research since the special issue on related methods was published 15-years ago (Haverkamp, Morrow, & Ponterotto, 2005), the field continues to demonstrate an overreliance on quantitative methods. Though important for producing knowledge we can depend on, excessive use of these methods poses a barrier for counseling psychologists to address the needs of the communities that are at the core of our discipline’s values—those who are marginalized and underserved in society. In alignment with our values of social justice, advocacy, and empowerme...
Source: Journal of Counseling Psychology - May 27, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Decolonization as methodological innovation in counseling psychology: Method, power, and process in reclaiming American Indian therapeutic traditions.
Decolonization harbors great potential as a transformative methodological innovation for advancing social justice in counseling psychology. One domain of colonized knowledge with relevance for the field is therapeutic expertise in American Indian communities. In this article, I draw extensively on vignettes from the life narrative of a historical Aaniiih-Gros Ventre medicine man to reveal various facets of his healing practices. I do so as an illustrative case example of a decolonial reclamation of Indigenous therapeutic traditions for the discipline. In discussing method, power, and process in association with decolonizat...
Source: Journal of Counseling Psychology - May 27, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
The qualitative imagination in counseling psychology: Enhancing methodological rigor across methods.
Fifteen years have passed since the publication of a landmark issue of the Journal of Counseling Psychology on qualitative and mixed methods research (Haverkamp et al., 2005), which signaled a methodological shift in counseling psychology and related fields. At the time, qualitative research was certainly less popular in the field and arguably less respected than it is now. This special issue charts advances in qualitative and mixed methods research since the publication of that issue, reflects on how these diverse approaches are conducted today, and points toward new methodological frontiers. The articles in this special ...
Source: Journal of Counseling Psychology - May 27, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Intraindividual dynamics between alliance and symptom severity in long-term psychotherapy: Why time matters.
Conclusions: Alliance and symptom severity showed a reciprocal relationship. Expanding current evidence, our analysis showed how the magnitude of these effects depends on the considered time interval. Applying CT-SEM on longitudinal data of the alliance outcome association complements current cross-lagged panel analysis and allows to compare results of studies which are based on different time intervals between measurement occasions. Methodological, theoretical, and clinical implications are discussed. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Journal of Counseling Psychology)
Source: Journal of Counseling Psychology - May 13, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
“We are our own community”: Immigrant Latinx transgender people community experiences.
Little is known about how immigrant Latinx transgender people experience support from their communities in the U.S. and back in their country of origin. The present study aimed to understand how immigrant Latinx transgender people reported support within their communities. A community sample of 18 immigrant Latinx transgender people in a large metropolitan city in Florida participated in semi-structured interviews. Thematic analysis revealed four themes depicting the varying levels of support that participants received within their communities in the U.S., including: (a) neighborhood belonging, (b) organizations as a sourc...
Source: Journal of Counseling Psychology - May 13, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Insight as a mechanism of change in dynamic therapy for major depressive disorder.
This study aimed to investigate change in insight into maladaptive interpersonal patterns over the course of psychotherapy, as well as the specificity of insight as a change mechanism in dynamic treatments. A total of 100 patients received up to 16 sessions of either cognitive or dynamic therapy for major depressive disorder in a randomized clinical trial. Assessments of insight (Insight into Conflictual Relationship Patterns scale) and depression severity (Hamilton Depression Inventory) took place at the beginning of treatment, at month 2, and month 5. Patient insight significantly improved over the course of dynamic trea...
Source: Journal of Counseling Psychology - May 10, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
The development and initial validation of the White Fragility Scale.
Over the last couple of years, the topic of White fragility has garnered a considerable degree of attention. White fragility is considered a state in which even a minimum amount of racial stress can become intolerable and trigger a range of emotional and behavioral reactions intended to restore a sense of racial comfort (DiAngelo, White fragility: Why it’s so hard for White people to talk about racism, 2018, Beacon Press). In effort to measure the expression of White fragility, we developed and evaluated the psychometric properties of the 21-item White Fragility Scale (WFS). Data consisted of two independent samples of W...
Source: Journal of Counseling Psychology - May 10, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Relations among daily stressors, childhood maltreatment, and sleep in college students.
This study aimed to assess (a) the within- and between-person associations between daily stress and sleep; (b) the relation between childhood maltreatment and sleep; and (c) whether the relation between stress and sleep was moderated by the extent of childhood maltreatment among college students. Participants (N = 181) comprised the active control group in a previous intervention study. Participants completed a self-report measure of childhood maltreatment and 14 daily self-report measures of stressor exposure and severity (evenings) and 6 sleep measures (e.g., quality, duration; mornings). Experiencing more daily stressor...
Source: Journal of Counseling Psychology - May 6, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Does peer relationship matter? A multilevel investigation of the effects of peer and supervisory relationships on group supervision outcomes.
Research in clinical supervision has primarily focused on the contribution of supervisors to training outcome. However, peers may also play a significant role in trainees’ development, particularly during group supervision. Fifty-three trainees from 10 supervision groups completed measures of peer relationship, supervisory working alliance (SWA), supervision satisfaction (SAT), and counseling self-efficacy (CSE) at three time points during a 20-week counseling practicum at a department clinic in Hong Kong. Multilevel modeling was conducted to test the hypothesis that both peer relationship and SWA contribute to SAT and C...
Source: Journal of Counseling Psychology - May 6, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Are work well-being variables distinct? A bifactor model of fulfilling work.
The strengths-based inclusive theory of work and psychology of working theory propose that fulfilling work is a key outcome of the vocational intervention. Scholars have further argued that fulfilling work is the holistic experience of well-being in the workplace and can be assessed with meaningful work, work engagement, workplace positive emotions, and job satisfaction. This theoretical perspective suggests a bifactor model would best explain the relations among these variables, but this claim remains untested. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to investigate whether a bifactor model best explained the relations am...
Source: Journal of Counseling Psychology - May 6, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Mapping the terrain of Journal of Counseling Psychology: A citation network analysis.
In this study, we conducted a citation network analysis of the Journal of Counseling Psychology (JCP) to elucidate the scope, evolution, and interconnections of JCP publications as reflected in how authors use (i.e., cite) these publications. We used CitNetExplorer to analyze a network of 4,718 JCP publications and 16,959 citation links. The analysis yielded 19 clusters in JCP’s citation network. The most dominant facet of the citation network focused on counseling, counseling process, and counseling outcome. The clusters in this facet shifted from an early focus on perceptions of counselors to continuing examinations of...
Source: Journal of Counseling Psychology - March 29, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Intraindividual association of PTSD symptoms with binge drinking among trauma-exposed students.
People, particularly undergraduate students, who report elevated symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) are at elevated risk of binge drinking. The present study used ecological momentary assessment to (a) evaluate whether PTSD severity, specifically, or psychological distress, generally, are associated with binge drinking and (b) examine the self-medication and susceptibility models of the comorbidity of PTSD with binge drinking while accounting for shared liability (i.e., the between-person association of PTSD symptom severity with binge drinking). Within a larger study of undergraduate student mental health, f...
Source: Journal of Counseling Psychology - March 25, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Development and psychometric evaluation of the Sexual Minority Women’s Sexual Objectification Experiences Scale.
Research has linked experiences of sexual objectification to body image and eating problems among women. Existing measures of sexual objectification were grounded in heterosexual women’s experiences. The present research extends this prior work by centering sexual minority women’s experiences to develop and evaluate the Sexual Minority Women’s Sexual Objectification Experiences Scale (SMW-SOE). In Study 1, an initial 51 items were developed, drawing on prior qualitative research with sexual minority women and existing measures of sexual objectification experiences. Exploratory factor analysis of 217 sexual minority w...
Source: Journal of Counseling Psychology - March 25, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Psychotherapy racial/ethnic disparities in treatment outcomes: The role of university racial/ethnic composition.
Conclusion: Therapists and higher education professionals should consider environmental impacts on counseling services. Implications for higher education, counseling centers, and mental health disparities are provided. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Journal of Counseling Psychology)
Source: Journal of Counseling Psychology - March 25, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
