Journal of Counseling and Development back issues from January 2009:
School counseling in the 21st century: where lies the future? Introduction to the special section.(Special Section)(Editorial)
Jan 01, 2009; ... In a span of merely 10 years, the school counseling profession has reinvented itself. Since the late 1990s, school counseling has progressed from the tradition of a responsive services focus to a proactive and programmatic system that is inextricably integrated with the mission of schools ....
School counselor inclusion: a collaborative model to provide academic and social-emotional support in the classroom setting.
Jan 01, 2009; ... As counselors go through the 1st decade of the 21st century, it is clear that U.S. society and schools continue to evolve and change at a rapid pace. The United States' increasingly diverse student bodies throughout the country reflect a myriad of needs in the interrelated areas of ...
School counselor accountability: the path to social justice and systemic change.
Jan 01, 2009; ... Demographic shifts in our nation's population mandate that we attend specifically to students 'achievement, if as a nation, we expect to maintain our standard of living, our level of prosperity, and our place in the global economy. Simply put, we need the knowledge and contributions of ...
Faces of the future: school counselors as cultural mediators.
Jan 01, 2009; ... "The future, as a concept of time, can be viewed as taking place anytime from this instant into infinity" (Hays & Johnson, 1984, p. 208). This statement from early counseling futurists is so fundamental, school counselors may often overlook the reality that each moment lived is a step into ...
Contemporary fears of children and adolescents: coping and resiliency in the 21st century.(Survey)
Jan 01, 2009; ... With more than a century of research, fears are well documented. Hall (1897) reported such fears as thunderstorms, darkness, death, animals, disease, and ghosts. Nearly 40 years later, Jersild and Holmes (1935b) classified fears as follows: (a) concrete events (e.g., animals, strange ...
Predictors of early termination in a university counseling training clinic.(Research)(Report)
Jan 01, 2009; ... Premature or early termination of psychotherapy and counseling is a common and significant problem in clinical practice. Published estimates of dropout rates range between 30% and 60% of clients (Reis & Brown, 1999). In a meta-analysis of early termination, the average outpatient rate was ...
Education, ethnic identity, and acculturation as predictors of self-esteem in Latino adolescents.(Report)
Jan 01, 2009; ... Ethnic diversity has dramatically increased in the United States over the last several decades. From 1980 to 1992, the Latino population rose from 6.5% to 9.5% and the African American population increased from 11.5% to 11.9% (McLoyd, 1998). By the early 1990s, 1 in every 4 Americans ...
An empirical exploration of the occupational satisfaction of counselor educators: the influence of gender, tenure status, and minority status.(Report)
Jan 01, 2009; ... Research on stress in the last 2 decades has identified a range of consequences that negatively affect individual wellness (Osipow & Spokane, 1984; Walker & Brokaw, 2001). The negative effects of stress include anxiety (Witmer & Rich, 1991), exhaustion (Pierce & Molloy, 1990), low ...
The relationships between Mexican American acculturation, cultural values, gender, and help-seeking intentions.(Report)
Jan 01, 2009; ... Census predictions indicate that by 2020 Latinos/as will constitute 15% of the U.S. population (U.S. Census Bureau, 2000). As of the 2000 Census, Latinos/as represented approximately 12.5% of the U.S. population, moving them ahead of African Americans as the largest ethnic minority ...
Identifying substance abuse issues in high schools: a national survey of high school counselors.(Report)
Jan 01, 2009; ... High school students across the nation consistently report the use of substances as evidenced by data collected from the annual Monitoring the Future study (Johnston, O'Malley, & Bachman, 2003). Alcohol is the most commonly used drug among high school students with 35.4% of 10th- and 48.6% ...
The monsters in my head posttraumatic stress disorder and the child survivor of sexual abuse.(Qualitative Research)(Clinical report)
Jan 01, 2009; ... A child awakens in the middle of the night, the nightmare still fresh in her mind of "him" on top of her. Her breath comes in short, quick gasps as she struggles to determine whether what she has just experienced was real or only a dream. She strains to hear if the footsteps coming down ...
Motherhood in the 21st century: implications for counselors.(Practice & Theory)
Jan 01, 2009; ... In the past month, how many female clients have you seen who were struggling to be great mothers and have a career or job while providing for the emotional stability of their families while also balancing their children's social calendars with their own obligations? These clients may be in ...
Chaos theory as a model for life transitions counseling nonlinear dynamics and life's changes.
Jan 01, 2009; ... It has been said that "life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans" (Lennon, 1980). This familiar statement by John Lennon reminds individuals that, despite their best efforts at planning, their lives unfold in sometimes unexpected and unpredictable ways. Yet the ...
Diffusion of innovation theory: a bridge for the research-practice gap in counseling.
Jan 01, 2009; ... Getting a new idea adopted, even when it has obvious advantages, is difficult. --Everett M. Rogers (2003, p. 1) Counseling researchers face the challenge of translating their findings into meaningful strategies for practice. Scholars have identified a major gap ...
The ACA Code of Ethics: articulating counseling's professional covenant.(American Counseling Association)
Jan 01, 2009; ... In the mid-1970s, there was a local tavern located in a small town in New Jersey. Long and narrow, a favorite stop on the way home from work for many of the men of the town, it was indeed a place "where everybody knew your name." What made this bar different from all the others was that at ...
Counseling in the Republica Bolivariana de Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela).(Trends)
Jan 01, 2009; ... Counseling is seen in Latin America as the coming together of people to help one another through empathic support, a nourishing spirit, empowering solidarity, and a sharing of wisdom. This consilium (Latin etymological word for counseling meaning "coming together") takes place with the ...
Book review of Counseling Children and Adolescents Through Grief and Loss.(Book review)
Jan 01, 2009; ... * Counseling Children and Adolescents Through Grief and Loss by Jody J. Fiorini & Jodi Ann Mullen, 2006, Champaign, IL: Research Press, 244 pages, $26.95, ISBN 978-0878225538. Although a number of books have been published on childhood grief that cover a range of topics, from ...