“We don’t have a template to follow”: Sexual identity development and its facilitative factors among sexual minority men in the context of China.
Journal of Counseling Psychology, Vol 70(2), Mar 2023, 146-158; doi:10.1037/cou0000651Extant research on sexual identity development among sexual minority individuals has been predominantly conducted in Western contexts and focused on factors that hinder identity development processes. Using thematic analysis, this qualitative study sought to explore the experiences of sexual identity development among Chinese sexual minority men as well as the facilitative factors in China that positively influence this developmental process. The sample comprised 24 participants who self-identified as Chinese sexual minority men. The anal...
Source: Journal of Counseling Psychology - December 15, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
The hidden curriculum of academic writing: Toward demystifying manuscript preparation in counseling psychology.
This article aligns with the commitment of JCP’s editorial leadership to play an active role in opening up the scholarly publication process so that the pipeline of manuscripts submitted to and accepted by JCP shapes a more inclusive future for the field. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Journal of Counseling Psychology)
Source: Journal of Counseling Psychology - December 15, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Creating a brief form of the Supervisory Working Alliance Inventory in the Chinese cultural context using multilevel factor analyses.
Journal of Counseling Psychology, Vol 70(2), Mar 2023, 189-202; doi:10.1037/cou0000654The aim of this study was to examine the multilevel factor structure of the Supervisory Working Alliance Inventory (SWAI; Efstation et al., 1990) and shorten it for routine clinical use in the Chinese cultural context. Participants were 203 (Sample 1) and 97 (Sample 2) beginning counseling trainees from a master’s level training program in China. They were given the SWAI after every supervision session, and a subset of Sample 1 trainees also completed measures of their counseling self-efficacy before every client session. With Sample 1,...
Source: Journal of Counseling Psychology - December 8, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Changes in group counseling engagement and conflict and growth in emotional cultivation for children and adolescents.
Journal of Counseling Psychology, Vol 70(2), Mar 2023, 159-171; doi:10.1037/cou0000648Group climate is an important factor in group counseling and psychotherapy process and outcome research. The current investigation examined group climate changes (from early to late sessions) at the within-group (i.e., group members) and between-group (i.e., group-as-a-whole) levels in predicting changes in group members’ emotional cultivation in group counseling. A total of 236 Taiwanese children and adolescents across 41 groups participated in this study. Members’ ratings of group climate (i.e., engagement and conflict) were partiti...
Source: Journal of Counseling Psychology - December 1, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Derailment and depression in college: Tests of 3-year predictive capacity and moderation by self-reflection, brooding, perfectionism, and cognitive flexibility.
Journal of Counseling Psychology, Vol 70(2), Mar 2023, 212-222; doi:10.1037/cou0000649While rich with opportunities for self-exploration, the transition to and through college is stressful, often associated with the onset or exacerbation of mental illness. Attending to these characteristics, this preregistered study asked whether derailment—or difficulties reconciling perceived identity change—in freshman year predicts senior depressive symptoms, and how individual risks for depression relate to this association. Derailment and depressive symptoms evidenced significant 3-year stability, and these constructs had positiv...
Source: Journal of Counseling Psychology - November 17, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
“There’s no real roadmap that I know of”: Experiences of transgender and nonbinary graduate students in counseling psychology programs.
Journal of Counseling Psychology, Vol 70(1), Jan 2023, 16-29; doi:10.1037/cou0000647Minimal research has examined the experiences of transgender and nonbinary (TNB) people in graduate school with no studies to date examining the experiences of TNB students in psychology graduate programs. The purpose of this study was to utilize a critical-ideological paradigm to identify recruitment, retention, and attrition factors for TNB people in counseling psychology (CP) programs with the aim of providing specific recommendations to CP programs. Individual interviews (between 35 and 70 min) were conducted with a sample of 16 TNB gra...
Source: Journal of Counseling Psychology - November 17, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Self-assertive efficacy and workplace advocacy behavior: A social cognitive analysis.
Journal of Counseling Psychology, Vol 70(1), Jan 2023, 41-51; doi:10.1037/cou0000645One important way in which people assert their agency in the workplace is by engaging in self-advocacy. We used the social cognitive model of career self-management (CSM; Lent & Brown, 2013) to examine hypothesized predictors and outcomes of workers’ engagement in self-advocacy. Participants were 511 full-time employees who completed an online survey of self-assertive efficacy involving advocacy behavior, proactive personality, perceived organizational support, self-advocacy behaviors (voice, career initiative, job change negotiation), an...
Source: Journal of Counseling Psychology - October 20, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Threat alert: The effect of outliers on the alliance–outcome correlation.
We examined the influence of removing low alliance outliers on the alliance–outcome association using data drawn from two large-scale, naturalistic psychotherapy data sets (Ns = 1,052; 11,029). These data sets differed in setting (university counseling center, community mental health center), country (United States and Canada), alliance measure (four-item Working Alliance Inventory Short Form Revised, 10-item Session Rating Scale), and outcome measure (Counseling Center Assessment of Psychological Symptoms–34, Outcome Questionnaire–45). We examined the impact of treating outliers in five different ways: retaining the...
Source: Journal of Counseling Psychology - September 29, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Examination of perceived religion in Muslim women’s access to counseling and psychotherapy services: An audit study.
Journal of Counseling Psychology, Vol 70(1), Jan 2023, 30-40; doi:10.1037/cou0000644Across the United States and Canada, the marginalization of Muslims has contributed to many Muslim women having mental health difficulties, making it essential that services are available and accessible. An email correspondence audit design research study was used to investigate whether mental health practitioners demonstrate implicit bias in the form of aversive prejudice against Muslim women during a request for counseling/psychotherapy services. A total of 450 counselors or psychologists participated. Practitioners received an email from...
Source: Journal of Counseling Psychology - September 29, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
A qualitative study of women of color group psychotherapists: The wellspring of collective healing.
Journal of Counseling Psychology, Vol 70(1), Jan 2023, 1-15; doi:10.1037/cou0000643Understanding the psychological health of women of color (WOC) in a racialized and gendered society requires accessing, validating, and processing the lived experiences and emotions that stem from interlocking systems of oppression. Despite the importance of responding to the psychological health needs of this population, the group therapy literature on how to design and facilitate group therapy for women of color remains limited. For this reason, the present research aims to identify group therapy-oriented experiences based on data provided...
Source: Journal of Counseling Psychology - September 22, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Confidence in the therapist and confidence in the treatment predict symptomatic improvement week by week in therapy: A latent curve modeling approach.
Journal of Counseling Psychology, Vol 69(6), Nov 2022, 823-834; doi:10.1037/cou0000640Previous research suggests that common relationship factors are composed of two overarching factors, “Confidence in the therapist” and “Confidence in the treatment.” The aim of this naturalistic process–outcome study was to investigate the reciprocal relationships between these two constructs and patients’ symptom level across treatment. The sample consisted of 587 patients who were admitted to an inpatient program and treated with psychotherapy for a range of mental health disorders, such as chronic depression, anxiety disord...
Source: Journal of Counseling Psychology - September 22, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Confidence in the therapist and confidence in the treatment predict symptomatic improvement week by week in therapy: A latent curve modeling approach.
Previous research suggests that common relationship factors are composed of two overarching factors, “Confidence in the therapist” and “Confidence in the treatment.” The aim of this naturalistic process–outcome study was to investigate the reciprocal relationships between these two constructs and patients’ symptom level across treatment. The sample consisted of 587 patients who were admitted to an inpatient program and treated with psychotherapy for a range of mental health disorders, such as chronic depression, anxiety disorders, and eating disorders. Our data consisted of weekly measures of symptomatic distre...
Source: Journal of Counseling Psychology - September 22, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Sexuality training in counseling psychology: A mixed-methods study of student perspectives.
Journal of Counseling Psychology, Vol 70(1), Jan 2023, 52-66; doi:10.1037/cou0000641Counseling psychologists are a cogent fit to lead the movement toward a sex-positive professional psychology (Burnes et al., 2017a). Though centralizing training in human sexuality (HS; Mollen & Abbott, 2021) and sexual and reproductive health (Grzanka & Frantell, 2017) is congruent with counseling psychologists’ values, training programs rarely require or integrate comprehensive sexuality training for their students (Mollen et al., 2020). We employed a critical mixed-methods design in the interest of centering the missing voices of docto...
Source: Journal of Counseling Psychology - September 15, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Associations between public and self-stigma of help-seeking with help-seeking attitudes and intention: A meta-analytic structural equation modeling approach.
Journal of Counseling Psychology, Vol 70(1), Jan 2023, 90-102; doi:10.1037/cou0000637The present study examined the association between help-seeking public stigma and help-seeking self-stigma (i.e., internalization of stigma) and the relative association of both types of stigma with help-seeking attitude and intention using a full-information meta-analytic structural equation modeling approach. We also investigated the moderating effect of gender, age, collectivism, and social group in the internalization process. Results from 115 independent samples containing data from 54,793 individuals showed that public stigma of help...
Source: Journal of Counseling Psychology - September 8, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
