Child Counselors Research Articles

Families as Healing Partners: A Collaborative Approach to Addressing Suicidality in Child Counseling

Suicide is the second leading cause of death in the United States for youth ages 12 to 17; thus, child counselors are encouraged to gain knowledge and skills to address this public health crisis. A major component of all child counseling practices, and particularly crisis counseling, is family collaboration. Given the dearth of research and scholarship regarding family counseling practices for addressing youth suicidality, we propose a five-week model to support counselors’ systemic healing work: Family Collaboration in Suicide Prevention ( FCSP). In this article, we introduce the model through providing (a) strategies for family rapport building, (b) engaging in means reduction with families, (c) developmental considerations for response and assessment practices, and (d) an overview of the model objectives and weekly curriculum.

아동상담자의 불확실성에 대한 인내력 부족과 심리적 소진의 관계에서 인지적 정서조절 전략의 매개효과

This study examined the mediating effects of cognitive emotion regulation strategies between child counselor’s intolerance of uncertainty and psychological burnout. The subjects of the study were 216 child counselors, and the collected data was analyzed using SPSS 26.0 and PROCESS Macro. As a result of the study, first, adaptive and maladaptive cognitive emotion regulation had the significant partial mediating effect on the relationship between the intolerance of uncertainty and psychological burnout. Second, as a result of verifying mediating effect on the cognitive emotion regulation classifying novice and expert child counselors based on 3 years, novice group’s adaptive and maladaptive cognitive emotion regulation had the significant partial mediating effect on the relationship between the intolerance of uncertainty and psychological burnout. On the other hand, in the case of expert group, only maladaptive cognitive emotion regulation had the significant partial mediating effect. This study tried to find counselor factors that affect psychological burnout of child counselors. Finally, the limitations and suggestions for future study were discussed.

아동상담사의 역전이 경험에 대한 주관성 연구

Objectives This study applied Q methodology to type the subjectivity of child counselors' countertransference ex-periences and identify the characteristics of each type in order to identify the subjective perceptions and charac-teristics of each type according to the countertransference experiences of child counselors.
 Methods To this end, a total of 143 statements were derived through literature research and in-depth interviews for a total of 26 days from March 20 to April 15, 2023, and a total of 25 child counselors were selected as the P sample and Q classification was conducted. . The collected data were analyzed using the PC-QUANL Program.
 Results As a result of the study, the types of child counselors' countertransference experiences were classified into a total of four types, with type 1 being the 'countertransference self-reflection type' who believed that they experienced inner maturity and growth as a human being, and type 2 being the 'countertransference type' as an expert. ‘Countertransference management ability type’, who thinks they have experienced the need for the ability to manage themselves, Type 3 is the ‘Countertransference Active Acceptance Type’, who thinks they have experi-enced acknowledging and accepting countertransference rather than denying it, and Type 4 is self-managed. The 'reverse transfer professionalism improvement type' was found to have experienced improvement in expertise by encountering problems.
 Conclusions Through the results of this study, we focused on the perception of child counselors' counter-transference experiences, classified and confirmed the structure of child counselors' subjective perception of countertransference, and provided information on accessibility and ways for child counselors to manage and pre-vent countertransference. We hope it will be used as relevant basic data.

Smoking Cessation Support in Social and Community Service Organizations: Potential Activities, Barriers, and Facilitators.

Social and Community Service Organizations (SCSOs) are a potential setting to reach and support people with a low socioeconomic position who smoke, yet smoking cessation is not widely supported by SCSO professionals. This study aims to identify SCSO professionals' (1) potential activities to support smoking cessation and (2) barriers and facilitators in undertaking these activities. Between July and November 2022, semi-structured interviews were conducted with 21 professionals recruited through SCSOs in Amsterdam North, including participation workers, welfare workers, parent and child counselors, budget coach, debt counselor, welfare work, community sports, and community center coordinators. Data were analyzed using a thematic approach. Eight activities were identified that could support the client either directly (ie, recognizing smoking clients, discussing smoking and smoking cessation, referring clients, providing smoking cessation counseling, offering help around services) or indirectly (ie, collaboration with relevant network partners, implementing smoke-free environments, enhancing professional skills). Various barriers and facilitators were identified related to the (1) client and their environment (ie, clients' readiness and social environment), (2) interaction between professional and client (ie, topic sensitivity), (3) professional (ie, professional is non-smoker, knowledge, and self-efficacy), (4) professionals' work environment (ie, necessity, responsibility, priority, and time), and (5) smoking cessation services (ie, availability of appropriate services and referral process). There is potential for SCSO professionals to support smoking cessation, but several barriers hinder their efforts. To address these barriers, it is essential to take into account the factors that SCSO professionals believe facilitate the provision of smoking cessation support. This study provides insight into how the potential of SCSOs in Amsterdam North to support smoking cessation efforts among people with a low socioeconomic position can be harnessed. Barriers were found at multiple levels (client, professional, client-professional interaction, and organizational) and these findings imply that stakeholders across these levels will need to prioritize smoking cessation to facilitate and stimulate SCSO professionals in supporting smoking cessation. A concrete action would be to offer SCSO professionals additional training in conversational skills to discuss smoking. As a prerequisite, easily accessible and suitable smoking cessation services should be available in the neighborhood.

초심아동상담자의 전문직 정체성과 심리적 소진의 관계에서 수퍼비전 관계의 조절효과

초심아동상담자의 전문직 정체성과 심리적 소진의 관계에서 수퍼비전 관계의 조절효과

The Sequential Mediation Effect of Mindfulness and Work Engagement in the Relationship between Self-care and Burnout among Child Counselors

This study examined the relationship between self-care and burnout of child counselors, focusing on the sequential mediational role of mindfulness and work engagement. A survey was conducted on 229 child counselors in Seoul and the metropolitan area. In addition, Data analysis was performed using SPSS 25.0 and Process macro ver. 4.1(Model 6). The main results of this study are as follows. First of all, child counselor’ self-care was found to have a significant direct effect on burnout. After that, both child counselor’ mindfulness and work engagement had significant single mediator effect on the relationship between their self-care and burnout. Finally, the indirect path linking child counselor’ self-care and burnout through their mindfulness and work engagement was significant, and the sequential mediational model was supported. Through these results, practical measures to deal with the burnout of child counselors can be considered.

Knowledge and ability of early childhood teachers in delivering career guidance for preschooler

The level of knowledge and ability of teachers in delivering career guidance is very influential on the child's self-development process, especially in the aspects of career orientation and career attainment. In this regard, this study aims to identify the knowledge and ability of early childhood education teachers in delivering career guidance for preschoolers. By using a descriptive method, data were collected using observation techniques and a self-report questionnaire, from 12 early childhood teachers in Serang City, Banten, Indonesia. The results showed that the level of knowledge and ability of early childhood education teachers in delivering career guidance services may be described in five areas: (1) needs assessment: analyzing student needs for guidance and counseling services; (2) program development: preparing the guidance and counseling service programs; (3) selecting methods/techniques/strategies: creating the most prospective guidance and counseling methods/techniques/strategies and conducting step by step of guidance activities based on selected method; (4) content development: designing guidance and counseling materials; and (5) accountability: evaluating the guidance and counseling service activities. Howeverm the adequate level of knowledge and ability at expert level was not found in any of these areas, adequate level of knowledge and ability at moderate level was found in areas (3) and (4), while inadequate level of knowledge and ability at novice level was in areas (1), (2), and (5). As a consequence, policy makers, school principals, early childhood educators, or children counselors should be more paying attention to these issues.

아동상담자의 불확실성에 대한 인내력 부족과 심리적 소진의 관계에서 수퍼비전 관계의 조절효과

아동상담자의 불확실성에 대한 인내력 부족과 심리적 소진의 관계에서 수퍼비전 관계의 조절효과

아동상담자 발달수준이 심리적 소진에 미치는 영향에서 수퍼비전 관계의 조절효과

본 연구에서는 아동상담자의 발달수준이 심리적 소진에 미치는 영향에서 수퍼비전 관계의 조절 효과를 검증하였다. 이를 위해서 전국의 대학 부설 놀이치료실, 복지관 놀이치료실, 아동상담센터 등에서 종사하는 놀이치료자 177명을 대상으로 발달수준 척도(KCLQ), 수퍼비전 관계 척도(K-S-SRQ), 심리적 소진 척도를 사용하였다. 첫째, 아동상담자의 발달수준과 수퍼비전 관계(안전기반, 성찰적 교육, 구조화), 심리적 소진의 상관관계를 확인하기 위해서 상관분석을 실시한 결과, 아동상담자의 발달수준과 수퍼비전 관계는 심리적 소진과 부적 상관관계가 있는 것으로 나타났다. 둘째, 아동상담자의 발달수준이 심리적 소진에 미치는 영향에서 수퍼비전 관계 조절효과를 검증하고자 위계적 중다회귀분석을 실시한 결과, 아동상담자의 발달수준이 심리적 소진에 미치는 영향에서 수퍼비전 관계 총점과 하위요인인 성찰적 교육, 구조화의 조절효과가 유의하게 나타났다. 이처럼 본 연구는 아동상담자의 발달수준이 심리적 소진에 미치는 영향에서 수퍼비전 관계의 조절효과를 검증했으며, 특히 수퍼비전 관계의 하위요인 중 성찰적 교육과 구조화가 발달수준이 심리적 소진에 미치는 영향을 더욱 완화함으로써 보호요인으로 기능할 수 있다는 것을 확인하였다. 이를 통해 수퍼비전 관계에서 체계적인 교육적 측면의 중요성을 확인하고, 아동상담자를 심리적 소진으로부터 보호하는 것에 있어 수퍼비전 개입의 근거를 마련했다는 점에서 의의가 있다.

The Predictive Role of Parents’ Integrative Mindfulness and Self- Knowledge in Adolescents’ Emotion Regulation Patterns

Background: One of the main challenges for parents during puberty is to tackle emotional problems in their teenagers, which may threaten their current and future health and affect the quality of parent-child relationships. Integrated parental self-awareness was assessed on the emotional regulation patterns of adolescents aged 13 to 15 years. This study was conducted to investigate the predictive role of parental awareness and self-awareness in emotion regulation patterns of 13 to 15 year olds. Methods: The research design was descriptive-correlational. The statistical population was 13 to 15-year-old adolescents of Parsian city and their mothers, 140 of whom were selected using appropriate random sampling method in years 2019-2020. The data were collected utilizing the Emotional Regulation Questionnaire (ERQ), the Mind/Conscious Mind Scale (MMS) and the Integrated Self-Knowledge Scale (ISK). Pearson correlation coefficient and stepwise regression were employed to analyze the data. Results: The obtained results revealed a significant inverse relationship between integrated self-cognition and cognitive repression (P<0.002, r=0.46) and mindfulness with cognitive repression (P≤0.004, r=-0.32). There was a direct and significant relationship between knowledge with cognitive reassessment assessment (P≤0.001, r=0.45) and integrated self-knowledge with cognitive reassessment (P≤0.004, r=0.37) at a confidence level of 0.95. Moreover, the results of linear regression to predict emotion regulation patterns in adolescents showed that the coherent variable of self-awareness with a coefficient of explanation of 0.43 and the variable of consciousness with a coefficient of explanation of 0.35 could predict cognitive emotion. Conclusions: Parents, family, and child counselors could make use of parental awareness and self-knowledge education and increase the mental health components of mothers as a way to prevent and reduce adolescents’ emotional problems.

A Qualitative Study on the Self-care Experiences of Child Counselors

A Qualitative Study on the Self-care Experiences of Child Counselors

초보아동상담자의 전문직 정체성과 상담자 자기효능감이 소진에 미치는 영향

본 연구의 목적은 초보아동상담자의 상담자 전문직 정체성과 상담자 자기효능감이 소진에 미치는 영향을 확인하는 것이다. 이를 위해 아동상담 경력 4년 미만의 초보아동상담자 150명을 대상으로 설문조사를 실시하였다. 연구도구로는 상담자 변인, 상담자 전문직 정체성, 상담자 자기효능감, 상담자소진에 대한 설문지를 사용하였으며, 수집된 자료는 SPSS WIN 18.0을 사용하여 분석하였다. 연구결과는 다음과 같다. 첫째, 초보아동상담자의 전문직 정체성, 상담자 자기효능감, 소진은 통계적으로 유의한 상관관계를 보였다. 둘째, 초보상담자의 소진에 가장 영향을 미치는 변인은 상담자의 전문직 정체성으로 나타났다. 그리고 상담위기대처 자기효능감은 소진의 일부 하위요인에 영향을 미치는 변인으로 나타났다. 본 연구 결과는 초보아동상담자의 전문직 정체성과 상담자 자기효능감을 향상시키고 소진을 예방하고 경감하는 중재프로그램 마련에 기초자료로 활용될 것으로 기대한다.

The Moderating Effects of Authenticity on the Relationship Between Child Counselors' Empathic Understanding and Emotional Bonds with Children

The Moderating Effects of Authenticity on the Relationship Between Child Counselors' Empathic Understanding and Emotional Bonds with Children

아동상담자의 도덕적 정체성이 윤리적 실천행동에 미치는 영향: 자기통제력과 도덕적 용기의 이중매개효과

아동상담자의 도덕적 정체성이 윤리적 실천행동에 미치는 영향: 자기통제력과 도덕적 용기의 이중매개효과

The Effects of Supervision Experiences and Interpersonal Relation Dispositions on Countertransference Management Abilities of Child Counselors

The Effects of Supervision Experiences and Interpersonal Relation Dispositions on Countertransference Management Abilities of Child Counselors

아동상담자의 발달수준이 내담아동과의 정서적 유대에 미치는 영향에서 진정성의 매개효과

아동상담자의 발달수준이 내담아동과의 정서적 유대에 미치는 영향에서 진정성의 매개효과

Uticaj medija na decu iz perspektive nacionalne dečje linije

Information technologies at the threshold of the third decade of the 21st century represent a significant factor in the psychosocial development of children and youth. The content presented by the media (using contemporary audio-visual effects) ranges from informative, through educational, entertainment, to sensational and shocking. Media content draws attention and leaves a strong impression on children, and often, provokes reactions of agitation. Children are trying to find ways to overcome this anxiety using a variety of strategies, and one of them is the need to talk about it. On the national child's line, a modern telephone and counseling support service for children and young people, there is a tendency for an increased number of calls from children that are presumed to be related to certain media events. This paper will present findings of research on the impact of disturbing media content on children as well as observations by children's counselors on calls related to sensationalist media content. The findings will be interpreted in relation to children's reactions and strategies for overcoming feelings of distress with calls during discussions with telephone counselors on the child's line.

The Effect of Patient Education on Chinese Adolescent and Parental Beliefs About Counselors' Breaches of Confidentiality.

The primary aim of the present study is to explore whether brief education can change Chinese adolescents' and parents' beliefs about when counselors would breach confidentiality. The two secondary aims are to examine whether the brief education (1) increases adolescents' willingness to share private information with their counselor and (2) decreases parents' expectations of the amount of information their child's counselor would divulge to them. Results showed that adolescents and parents who read a brief passage about the limitations of confidentiality were significantly less likely to believe counselors would breach confidentiality in situations where counselors reported they would not likely breach confidentiality. Regarding our secondary research aims, results indicate that education increases adolescents' willingness to share more sensitive information, such as about suicidality and drug use, but it does not change parents' expectations to have most of the information divulged to them by their child's counselor.

A Study on Activation Plan of Child Abuse Reporting System

본 연구목적은 아동학대 예방 및 학대의심사례 발굴을 위한 신고의무제도에 대한 현황을 살펴보고, 신고의무제도 활성화 방안을 살펴보기로 한다. 2016년 ‘아동학대 근절 원년의 해’로 선포한 뒤, 관계부처 합동으로 아동학대 예방·발굴·대응을 위한 정책과 아동학대 신고의무 인식재고를 위한 방안을 마련하였다. 아동학대 근절을 위한 관계부처의 대책마련에도 불구하고 2017년 친부와 내연녀에 의해 학대를 당한 뒤 사망하게 된 ‘고준희 양 살인사건’과 같이 아동대상으로 학대행위가 이루어진 사건이 끊임없이 발생하였다. 이에, 아동학대 신고의무제도 활성화를 통해 아동학대 예방 및 효과적인 대응활동을 강화하고자 한다. 첫째, 신고의무자의 특정직업군 중 ‘사설상담기관 아동전문상담사’를 포함하는 방안이 마련되어야 하며, 둘째, 주 양육자(부모 및 조부모, 아이돌보미)에 의한 자진신고기간제도가 마련되어야 한다. 매년 보고되는 ‘전국아동학대현황보고서’에 의하면 아동학대유형(신체 적·정서적·성적학대, 방임)별 모두 주 양육자에 의해 발생되는 것으로 나타나 주 양육자의 양육어려움을 발굴하여 서비스를 초기에 지원할 수 있는 방안이 강화되어야 한다. 셋째, 주 양육자 아동학대예방 신고의무교육이 활성화되기 위한 방안을 제시하였 으며, 마지막으로, 조기지원사례 및 일반사례관리 시스템이 강화되어야 한다. 아동학대사건은 발굴이 어렵다는 특성이 있다. 이에, 아동학대 의심사례 신고접수 유형 중 조기지원사례 및 일반사례 관리를 통해 아동학대 여부를 판단하여 지원 및 보호할 수있는 특성을 가지고 있기에 조기지원사례 및 일반사례 관리를 전담할 인력확충과 시스템관리체계가 명확하게 구성되어야 한다.The purpose of this study is to investigate the status of reporting duty to detect cases of child abuse prevention and suspected abuse, and to examine ways to activate reporting duty system. After declaring the year 2016 as the year of extermination of child abuse, the related ministries and agencies jointly established policies for the prevention, detection, and response to child abuse, and measures for reconsidering the duty to report child abuse. Despite the measures taken by the ministries for the abolition of child abuse, there have been incidents of child abuse, such as the Joon Hee Yang murder case , which was abandoned after being abused by his father and his wife in 2017. Therefore, we intend to strengthen child abuse prevention and effective response activities by activating the child abuse reporting system. First, there should be a plan to include counselor for child counselor in private counseling agency among the specific occupational group of the reporting duty person. Second, there should be system of voluntary reporting period by the main caregiver(parent and grandparent, child care). According to the National Child Abuse Report, which is reported annually, all types of child abuse (physical, emotional, sexual abuse, neglect) are reported to be caused by the main caregiver, so that it is possible to find the child care difficulties of the main caregiver, The plan should be strengthened. Third, it suggests ways to encourage the compulsory education for child abuse prevention for the primary caregiver. Finally, early support cases and general case management system should be strengthened. Child abuse cases are characterized by difficulty in finding them. Therefore, it has the characteristics that it can support and protect child abuse by early support cases and general case management among child abuse suspicion cases. Therefore, The system must be clearly structured.

PENGELOLAAN PANTI ASUHAN SANMA PASANG SURUT: METODE PENDAMPINGAN ANAK

The purpose of this community service activity is first, to provide additional knowledge and experience about the mentoring method that can be used for the Children of the Santa Maria Orphanage. The second objective is to provide additional knowledge, skills and insight into the values of goodness to the Children of the Orphanage St. Maria (SanMa). The activities were conducted in the workshop of the UKMC lecturers team for child counselors who were packed in&#x0D; &#x0D; &#x0D; &#x0D; the form of debriefing for the child's companion. Assistance for foster children is packaged in the form of games, the development of mindset through inspiring film / video, as well as facilitation skills for foster children under the age of 5 years through the activities of drawing and coloring together. The division of questionnaires is done at the end of the activity as feedback on activities that have been done. Positive responses of participants to the activities performed were seen from the interviews and filling questionnaires.