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Source: The Counseling Psychologist - June 12, 2013 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Tags: Articles Source Type: research
The 2012 Leona Tyler Award Address: Constructing Careers--Actors, Agents, and Authors
Thomas Kuhn (1996), the historian of science, referred to a paradigm as a pattern of conceptual models and dominant practices that characterize a particular historical period. The present article traces the evolution and compares three major paradigms for career intervention, namely the formist paradigm of modernity’s vocational guidance for the actor, the organismic paradigm of high modernity’s career education for the agent, and the contextual paradigm of post-modernity’s life designing for the author. Each of these paradigms has a distinct discourse that engages clients with a standard rhetoric and ski...
Source: The Counseling Psychologist - March 27, 2013 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Savickas, M. L. Tags: Society of Counseling Psychology, Division 17 of the American Psychological Association Source Type: research
Transgender Emotional and Coping Processes: Facilitative and Avoidant Coping Throughout Gender Transitioning
Eighteen transgender-identified individuals participated in semi-structured interviews regarding emotional and coping processes throughout their gender transition. The authors used grounded theory to conceptualize and analyze the data. There were three distinct phases through which the participants described emotional and coping experiences: (a) pretransition, (b) during the transition, and (c) posttransition. Five separate themes emerged, including descriptions of coping mechanisms, emotional hardship, lack of support, positive social support, and affirmative emotional experiences. The authors developed a model to describ...
Source: The Counseling Psychologist - March 27, 2013 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Budge, S. L., Katz-Wise, S. L., Tebbe, E. N., Howard, K. A. S., Schneider, C. L., Rodriguez, A. Tags: Regular Manuscripts Source Type: research
Handling Item-Level Missing Data: Simpler Is Just as Good
The topic of missing data has been receiving increasing attention, with calls to apply advanced methods of handling missingness to counseling psychology research. The present study sought to assess whether advanced methods of handling item-level missing data performed equivalently to simpler methods in designs similar to those counseling psychologists typically engage in. Results of an initial preliminary analysis, an analysis using real-world data, and a series of simulation studies were used in the present investigation. Results indicated that available case analysis, mean substitution, and multiple imputation had simila...
Source: The Counseling Psychologist - March 27, 2013 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Parent, M. C. Tags: Regular Manuscripts Source Type: research
Adult Children of Gay and Lesbian Parents: Religion and the Parent-Child Relationship
Previous scholars have explored various challenges facing children of gay and lesbian individuals, and some have explored the impact of a parent’s sexual orientation on the parent-child relationship. However, the impact of religion on the parent-child relationships of adult children with a gay or lesbian parent has been overlooked. In this study, 10 adult children with both a gay or lesbian parent and a heterosexual parent were interviewed and asked to retrospectively explore how religion impacted their parent-child relationships. The following themes ...
Source: The Counseling Psychologist - March 27, 2013 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Lytle, M. C., Foley, P. F., Aster, A. M. Tags: Regular Manuscripts Source Type: research
Heterosexual Ally Development in Counseling Psychologists: Experiences, Training, and Advocacy
Fourteen pre-doctoral psychology interns and psychologists employed in university counseling settings who self-identified as heterosexual were interviewed concerning their experiences and development with ally work in the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) community. Guided by the tradition of interpretive phenomenological qualitative approach with constant comparison analysis serving as the strategy for inductive analysis, results indicated a significant variation concerning how the counseling psychologists viewed the ally experience. However, common meaning, challenges, and training experiences within their a...
Source: The Counseling Psychologist - March 27, 2013 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Asta, E. L., Vacha-Haase, T. Tags: Regular Manuscripts Source Type: research
Gerald L. Stone (1941-2011)
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Source: The Counseling Psychologist - March 6, 2013 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Westefeld, J. S., Galligan, P. K. Tags: In Memoriam Source Type: research
Bruce R. Fretz (1939-2012)
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Source: The Counseling Psychologist - March 6, 2013 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Gelso, C., Hill, C., O'Brien, K. Tags: In Memoriam Source Type: research
Corrective Experiences in Everyday Life: A Qualitative Investigation of Transformative Change
Based on a transtheoretical definition of corrective experience (CE), the authors interviewed 25 adults who could identify a pivotal event or relationship they had experienced, at any point in their lifetime, as positively transformative. The narratives show that the CEs described by participants often had a negative precipitant or took place during a life transition. CEs involving other people tended to occur when an important relationship ended or was reflected upon in retrospect. Many participants had a new cognitive understanding while the CE was occurring as well as long afterward. Interestingly, the life-changing con...
Source: The Counseling Psychologist - March 6, 2013 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Friedlander, M. L., Lee, H.-H., Bernardi, S. Tags: Regular Manuscripts Source Type: research
Counseling Health Psychology: Assessing Health Psychology Training Within Counseling Psychology Doctoral Programs
Training directors of American Psychological Association–approved counseling psychology doctoral programs completed a questionnaire assessing (a) student and faculty involvement in health-related research, practice, and teaching; (b) health-related research conducted by students and faculty; and (c) programs’ expectations and ability to increase health training opportunities. Statistical comparisons suggest that a high frequency of programs name health psychology as an area of emphasis, offer specialized health psychology training, and provide health-psychology-related practica. Many reported faculty and studen...
Source: The Counseling Psychologist - March 6, 2013 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Raque-Bogdan, T. L., Torrey, C. L., Lewis, B. L., Borges, N. J. Tags: Regular Manuscripts Source Type: research
Therapist Use of Client Strengths: A Qualitative Study of Positive Processes
Gelso and Woodhouse highlight a lack of empirical efforts to bring a core identity of counseling psychology, the use of client strengths, into therapy. Additionally, the positive psychology movement is devoid of a system of positive therapeutic processes designed to help clients toward optimal human functioning. This investigation sought to explicitly identify positive processes thought to regularly occur in mainstream therapies by interviewing therapists. Interviews produced 266 significant statements leading to five themes: (a) amplification of strengths, (b) contextual considerations, (c) strength-oriented processes, (d...
Source: The Counseling Psychologist - March 6, 2013 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Scheel, M. J., Davis, C. K., Henderson, J. D. Tags: Regular Manuscripts Source Type: research
African American Men's Beliefs About Mental Illness, Perceptions of Stigma, and Help-Seeking Barriers
Little is known about African American men’s beliefs about mental illness. A descriptive qualitative study, using the common sense model (CSM), examined African American men’s beliefs about mental illness, perceptions of stigma associated with mental illness, and barriers to help-seeking. A total of 17 community-dwelling African American men participated in individual interviews. Dimensional analysis guided by the CSM showed most of the men identified mental illness causal factors consistent with the biopsychosocial model of mental disorders. They believed mental illness is a chronic disorder having negative co...
Source: The Counseling Psychologist - March 6, 2013 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Ward, E. C., Besson, D. D. Tags: Regular Manuscripts Source Type: research
Nancy E. Betz: A Consistent Vocational Profile
Nancy E. Betz is a deeply respected pioneer in the areas of vocational psychology, the career development of women, and measurement and vocational assessment. Her scholarship in these areas is recognized nationally and internationally and dates to her early, innovative collaboration with Gail Hackett to apply Bandura’s concept of self-efficacy to understand the vocational behavior of women. This interview traces the life and career stories of Nancy Betz and in doing so illustrates the personal and contextual influences that shaped the person and professional she was to become. Nancy’s story is a powerful illust...
Source: The Counseling Psychologist - March 6, 2013 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Subich, L. Tags: Legacies and Traditions Forum Source Type: research
Quality of Life in Advanced Cancer: An Acceptance and Commitment Therapy View
We present the hypothetical case of J.B., a 56-year-old woman with recurrent Stage III ovarian cancer who reports thoughts of hopelessness and worthlessness, and how ACT might be applied to help J.B. experience a rich and meaningful life irrespective of her time remaining. (Source: The Counseling Psychologist)
Source: The Counseling Psychologist - January 26, 2013 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Angiola, J. E., Bowen, A. M. Tags: Articles Source Type: research
Adaptation of a Psycho-Oncology Intervention for Black Breast Cancer Survivors: Project CARE
Black women are traditionally underserved in all aspects of cancer care. This disparity is particularly evident in the area of psychosocial interventions where there are few programs designed to specifically meet the needs of Black breast cancer survivors. Cognitive-behavioral stress management intervention (CBSM) has been shown to facilitate adjustment to cancer. Recently, this intervention model has been adapted for Black women who have recently completed treatment for breast cancer. We outline the components of the CBSM intervention, the steps we took to adapt the intervention to meet the needs of Black women (Project C...
Source: The Counseling Psychologist - January 26, 2013 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Lechner, S. C., Ennis-Whitehead, N., Robertson, B. R., Annane, D. W., Vargas, S., Carver, C. S., Antoni, M. H. Tags: Articles Source Type: research
