Recently added articles from Journal of Counseling and Development:
Starfish, salmon, and whales: an introduction to the special section.(Special Section: Advocacy Competence)(Viewpoint essay)
Jun 22, 2009; ... In the summer of 2001, when I was newly in my role as the president of the American Counseling Association (ACA), Judy Lewis, then immediate past president of ACA, and I had an informal lobby meeting with several people during a conference. Those counselors, some of whom are represented in ...
Promoting systemic change through the ACA Advocacy Competencies.(Special Section: Advocacy Competence)(American Counseling Association)(Report)
Jun 22, 2009; ... Counselors have always been change agents and advocates (Kiselica & Robinson, 2001; Lewis & Bradley, 2000; Toporek, Gerstein, Found, Roysircar, & Israel, 2006). They have recognized that their clients and students often needed more than what face-to-face counseling could provide. They have ...
ACA Advocacy Competencies: social justice advocacy at the client/student level.(Special Section: Advocacy Competence)(American Counseling Association)(Report)
Jun 22, 2009; ... There is a growing movement calling on counselors to implement social justice advocacy strategies and interventions into counseling practices (Kiselica & Robinson, 2001; Ratts, D'Andrea, & Arredondo, 2004; Toporek, Gerstein, Fouad, Roysircar, & Israel, 2006). Calls for counseling ...
Social justice advocacy: community collaboration and systems advocacy.(Special Section: Advocacy Competence)(Report)
Jun 22, 2009; ... This article addresses the community collaboration and systems advocacy domains articulated by the American Counseling Association (ACA)Task Force on Advocacy Competencies (Lewis, Arnold, House, & Toporek, 2002). These domains involve the community, school, and interacting systems in which ...
Counselor advocacy: affecting systemic change in the public arena.(Special Section: Advocacy Competence)(Case study)
Jun 22, 2009; ... Deamonte was a 12-year-old student in a public school system in the Washington, DC, metropolitan area. One day he got a toothache. Deamonte's mother, who was a wage-reliant worker, had no health insurance, and the family's Medicaid coverage had temporarily lapsed. Because of their ...
The big picture of advocacy: counselor, heal society and thyself.(Special Section: Advocacy Competence)(Report)
Jun 22, 2009; ... This article explores how counselors can be a part of the growing movement for social justice advocacy in counseling. Lately, counselors have come to realize how important counseling skills, interventions, insights, and the counseling relationship are in helping more community members as ...
Disproportionate diagnosis of mental disorders among African American versus European American clients: implications for counseling theory, research, and practice.(Research)(Report)
Jun 22, 2009; ... Racial/ethnic differences in the mental health treatment of clients have received increasing attention during the past decade (Harley & Dillard, 2005). The Surgeon General's recent report on mental health in the United States noted that the needs of persons in certain racial/ethnic groups ...
The adolescent mattering experience gender variations in perceived mattering, anxiety, and depression.(Research)(Report)
Jun 22, 2009; ... Adolescence, defined as the period between childhood and adulthood (i.e., ages 10-19 years in the United States), is marked by dramatic developmental changes in physical, cognitive, and social-emotional capacities (Erikson, 1963). It is well known that psychological distress during the ...
Counselor bilingual ability, counselor ethnicity, acculturation, and Mexican Americans' perceived counselor credibility.(Research)(Report)
Jun 22, 2009; ... For more than 2 decades, a group of mental health providers (Falicov, 1998; Javier, 1989) and researchers (Martinez & Mendoza, 1984; Ponterotto, 1987; Santiago-Rivera, Arredondo, & Gallardo-Cooper, 2002; Sciarra & Ponterotto, 1991) have focused on the development of culturally sensitive ...
Bystanders' reactions to witnessing repetitive abuse experiences.(Research)(Report)
Jun 22, 2009; ... Concern over different forms of interpersonal violence in schools remains an increasing concern for millions of students, parents, educators, and communities not just in the United States, but worldwide (Carney, Hazler, & Higgins, 2002; Cole, Cornell, & Sheras, 2006; Espelage & Swearer, ...
Breast cancer survivors coping with lymphedema: what all counselors need to know.(Research)(Report)
Jun 22, 2009; ... I tried to talk with my counselor about the problems I was having with my lymphedema after my breast cancer surgery .... Although she knew quite a lot about breast cancer, she knew nothing about lymphedema and the stress I was under, and how ugly l feel .... I know she wanted to help, but I ...
Love, loss, and learning: the experiences of fathers who have children diagnosed with schizophrenia.(Research)(Report)
Jun 22, 2009; ... The onset of schizophrenia in the family has been described as "a disaster in which all are victims of the event and its sequelae" (Terkelsen, 1987, p. 128). Early signs of the illness often occur during late adolescence or early adulthood when the child is often still living with his or ...
An integrative psychological developmental model of supervision for professional school counselors-in-training.(Practice & Theory)(Report)
Jun 22, 2009; ... Professional school counselors (PSCs) practice in complex environments, often in isolation and without clinical supervision (Herlihy, Gray, & McCollum, 2002). Furthermore, PSCs have increasingly large caseloads, with a current national average of 476 students and a high of 920 in one state ...
Rogers redux: relevance and outcomes of motivational interviewing across behavioral problems.(Practice & Theory)(Report)
Jun 22, 2009; ... Approximately 20 years ago, motivational interviewing (MI) was developed by William Miller as an approach to treat problem drinking that was markedly different from the traditional confrontational styles of addictions counseling (Miller, 1983). The use of the phrase problem drinking may ...
Developmental science and counseling.(Practice & Theory)(Report)
Jun 22, 2009; ... Developmental science is increasingly used as a foundation for counseling theory and practice. The need to build a more evidenced-based perspective to inform practice and a desire to expand counseling theory are often given as the rationale for this trend. Ivey's (2000; Ivey & Goncalves, ...
Counseling clients with chronic pain: a religiously oriented cognitive behavior framework.(Practice & Theory)(Report)
Jun 22, 2009; ... Each year, 50 million Americans are affected by chronic pain, resulting in annual health care and economic costs of more than $100 billion (American Chronic Pain Association, n.d.). Physically, these individuals face functional limitations, reduction in activity levels, loss of libido, ...
Client adherence to Asian cultural values, common factors in counseling, and session outcome with Asian American clients at a university counseling center.(Quantitative Research)(Clinical report)
Mar 22, 2009; ... During the past 3 decades, there has been a growing body of research literature focused on the counseling process with Asian Americans. One segment of this literature is based on studies that have used audiovisual analogue designs in which Asian American participants are exposed to written ...
Comparison of explicit forgiveness interventions with an alternative treatment: a randomized clinical trial.(Quantitative Research)(Clinical report)
Mar 22, 2009; ... A new and sometimes controversial topic, forgiveness, has emerged from the psychological literature in counseling and psychotherapy. Many have claimed that forgiveness is a reasonable and worthwhile goal when attempting to help people deal with difficult experiences (e.g., Enright & ...
Factors affecting African American counselors' job satisfaction: a national survey.(Quantitative Research)(Clinical report)
Mar 22, 2009; ... During the early 1970s, research regarding the job satisfaction of mental health professionals was relatively nonexistent. In fact, Sarata (as cited in Buffum & Konick, 1982) found only 20 studies with that focus. However, because researchers began to understand the importance of job ...
Workaholism, health, and self-acceptance.(Quantitative Research)(Clinical report)
Mar 22, 2009; ... Workaholism has received considerable attention in the popular literature over the past 2 decades, yet there is a dearth of empirical investigation on the topic. The lack of empirical research may be due to the lack of agreement on whether or not overwork is a problem. It has been ...