Body positivity for Asian Americans: Development and evaluation of the pride in Asian American Appearance Scale.
This study thus presents the Pride in Asian American Appearance Scale (PAAAS), which was designed to measure the extent to which Asian Americans feel positively about their own racialized physical appearances as well as those of fellow Asian Americans. Items were developed through an extensive literature review, cognitive interviews, and expert feedback. Exploratory (N = 398) and confirmatory (N = 398) factor analyses suggested a bifactor model, consisting of 24 items comprising a general factor and four group factors: (a) Pride in Asian Features, (b) Preference for Asian American Appearance, (c) Asian Americans as Desirab...
Source: Journal of Counseling Psychology - May 26, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Ignoring race and denying racism: A meta-analysis of the associations between colorblind racial ideology, anti-Blackness, and other variables antithetical to racial justice.
Journal of Counseling Psychology, Vol 70(3), Apr 2023, 258-275; doi:10.1037/cou0000618One critical role counseling psychologists can play in dismantling anti-Blackness and eradicating systemic racism is to build on the field’s strength in understanding individual-level processes (i.e., systems are created and maintained by individual actors). Drawing on antiracism scholarship, we aimed to better understand how colorblind racial ideology (CBRI), or the denial and minimization of race and racism, may serve as a barrier to engaging in antiracist praxis. Specifically, we conducted a meta-analysis to determine if color evasio...
Source: Journal of Counseling Psychology - May 23, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Mapping the progress of the process: Codevelopment of the therapeutic alliance with maltreated adolescents.
We used a longitudinal actor–partner interdependence model to examine the codeveloping alliance in alliance empowerment therapy (AET; Escudero, 2013), a manualized team-based approach developed in Spain specifically for child welfare-involved youth. In this first evaluation of AET, we sampled 102 adolescents, 83% of whom had been removed from their homes due to abuse or neglect, and 40% of whom were in crisis at the time of referral. Before each session, clients rated their improvement-so-far; after each session, both clients and therapists completed a brief alliance measure, an adaptation of the System for Observing Fam...
Source: Journal of Counseling Psychology - May 19, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Unpacking leader responsiveness effects of emotional cultivation groups: Using the variance partitioning method.
Theoretically, group leaders can play a significant role in contributing to the effectiveness of group counseling intervention. However, very few studies have examined the group leader’s effects on the client-rated group counseling outcomes. We hypothesized that responsive group leaders who were caring, understanding, and respectful could serve as safe havens and secure bases to facilitate their group members’ social and emotional cultivation. The current investigation examined the effects of leader responsiveness on group members’ social–emotional cultivation (SEC). A total of 307 Taiwanese children and adolescent...
Source: Journal of Counseling Psychology - May 12, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Countertransference awareness and treatment outcome.
In this study, we examined therapists’ awareness of their CT using a structured interview. Our hypotheses were (a) treatments in which therapists were more aware of their CT would have a better outcome and (b) different definitions of CT would be related to different therapy outcomes. Twenty-nine patients were treated by 19 therapists in 16 sessions of short-term psychodynamic therapy. We used the core conflictual relationship theme to measure CT, a special interview was developed to study CT awareness. Results show that awareness of CT defined as the relationship with the patient moderated 10 outcome measures and awaren...
Source: Journal of Counseling Psychology - May 12, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Idiographic and nomothetic relationships between momentary interpersonal behaviors, interpersonal complementarity, and alliance ruptures in psychotherapy.
This study demonstrated the interconnection between patients’ and therapists’ in-session behaviors as well as the role of therapists’ behaviors in momentary rupture development. This study highlights the importance of attuning and responding to individualized, momentary therapeutic contexts in navigating ruptures, and emphasizes the value of idiographic relational network approaches to aid in psychotherapy research and case conceptualization. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Journal of Counseling Psychology)
Source: Journal of Counseling Psychology - May 5, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Oxytocin reactivity to the therapeutic encounter as a biomarker of change in the treatment of depression.
Depression affects millions worldwide, thus underscoring the urgent need to optimize health care practices. To better understand the processes involved in psychotherapy gains, studies have emphasized the need to complement subjective reports with objective measures, in particular biological markers. Oxytocin (OT) has been proposed as a potential biomarker in the treatment of depression given its involvement in depression-related psychological and physiological functions and the formation of close relationships. Here, we assessed whether OT reactivity to therapeutic encounters (absolute and/or directional reactivity) is lin...
Source: Journal of Counseling Psychology - April 28, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
“Like a tsunami coming in fast”: A critical qualitative study of precarity and resistance during the pandemic.
This study explores the nature of precarity via the lens of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic. Precarity refers to uncertainty, loss, disruption, and anxiety, which differentially impact people across contexts. We sought to (a) identify how people understand and resist precarity during the pandemic; (b) explore the potential of precarity to serve as an organizing concept for psychological praxis and research; and (c) explore ways in which psychology of working theory (PWT) may be enriched by an infusion of precarity into its theoretical tenets. Twenty-seven participants who experienced work-related disruptions co...
Source: Journal of Counseling Psychology - April 14, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Underemployment and mental health: A longitudinal study.
Research has established that certain forms of underemployment relate to poorer mental health, but no studies have examined which components of underemployment are uniquely related to mental health over time. To address this gap in the literature, we longitudinally examined how multiple subjective underemployment constructs (i.e., underpayment, status, involuntary temporary work, field, poverty-wage employment, involuntary part-time work, and overqualification) predicted symptoms of distress in a large sample of working adults in four waves over 9 months. We also identified group differences in underemployment. Results rev...
Source: Journal of Counseling Psychology - March 28, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
The effects of group counseling and self-affirmation on stigma and group relationship development: A replication and extension.
The stigma of seeking counseling and negative attitudes about counseling are primary barriers to its use. In the only known study examining the utility of attending a group counseling session to ameliorate stigma (no control group), participation was associated with reductions in self-stigma (Wade et al., 2011). Self-affirmation interventions have shown promising results in reducing stigma and promoting positive expectations about counseling, but no research has examined its effects on a counseling session. In the present, two-part study, 172 college students who had previously completed an online screening survey, includi...
Source: Journal of Counseling Psychology - March 24, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
The relationship of alliance, cohesion, and climate with outcome among college counseling populations.
This study aims to elucidate these relationships through an archival analysis of continuous Group Questionnaire (GQ) and Outcome Questionnaire-45 (OQ-45) data from 412 group therapy clients at college counseling centers, which were originally collected by Burlingame, Whitcomb, et al. (2018). We predicted that alliance, cohesion, and climate would each correlate with improvements in outcome and, further, that they would have similar relationships with change in outcome. Results indicate that greater alliance, cohesion, and climate are individually associated with lower distress. This relationship was significant regarding s...
Source: Journal of Counseling Psychology - March 21, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Does practice really make perfect? A longitudinal analysis of the relationship between therapist experience and therapy outcome: A replication of Goldberg, Rousmaniere, et al. (2016).
Experience is often regarded as a prerequisite of high performance. In the field of psychotherapy, research has yielded inconsistent results regarding the association between experience and therapy outcome. However, this research was mostly conducted cross-sectionally. A longitudinal study from the U.S. recently indicated that psychotherapists’ experience was not associated with therapy outcomes. The present study aimed at replicating Goldberg, Rousmaniere, et al. (2016) study in the German healthcare system. Using routine evaluation data of a large German university psychotherapy outpatient clinic, the effect of N = 241...
Source: Journal of Counseling Psychology - March 10, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Development and initial validation of the job-search self-regulation scale: Expanding the career adaptation model of job search.
Given the pressing issues of unemployment during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic and the underrecognized role of job-search self-regulation (JSSR) in general within career construction theory (CCT), it is socially and theoretically important to expand the career adaption model of job search by examining the role of JSSR in predicting job-search outcomes. However, a psychometrically sound measure of JSSR is lacking. Study 1 used a sample of U.S. unemployed individuals (n = 300) to develop and explore the factor structure of a measure of JSSR. Study 2 tracked a sample of U.S. unemployed individuals (n = 399) to v...
Source: Journal of Counseling Psychology - March 10, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
The development and psychometric evaluation of the Objectification Perpetration Scale.
While the literature has shown that sexually objectifying women leads to negative outcomes for the target and perceiver, measures of objectification perpetration are often adaptations of measures designed to assess targets’ self-objectification or reported experiences of objectifying behaviors. In the present article, we introduce the Objectification Perpetration Scale (OPS) that assesses not only men’s perpetration of objectifying behaviors directed toward women but also their objectifying cognitions and beliefs. Data from 855 men were collected across two studies. Exploratory factor analysis (EFA) in the first sample...
Source: Journal of Counseling Psychology - February 14, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Asian American people’s intragroup and intergroup collective action: Identifying key correlates.
The present study advanced prior research by examining key correlates of Asian American people’s intragroup and intergroup collective action. Building on prior research, this study tested a model of the unique relations of experiences of discrimination, model minority beliefs, intragroup solidarity, and intergroup solidarity with other people of color as correlates of Asian American people’s intragroup and intergroup collective action. Single-indicator latent variable path analysis explained 59% and 44% of the variance in intergroup collective action and intragroup collective action, respectively. Experiences of discri...
Source: Journal of Counseling Psychology - February 14, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
