College Counselors Research Articles

Analysis of Student Evaluation from the Perspective of Competency for Enhancing the Competency Strategies of College Counselors

Analysis of Student Evaluation from the Perspective of Competency for Enhancing the Competency Strategies of College Counselors

The Path of Strengthening Network Parenting by College Counsellors in the New Media Era

Under the arrival of new media, network parenting of college counsellors has gradually become a trend and an inevitable choice. Under the new media environment, college counsellors carry out accurate cognition and conformity, and carry out useful exploration from the aspects of team construction, form innovation, platform application and so on. This paper discusses the significance and challenges of network parenting by college counsellors in the new media era, so that they can better play their role.

The Realistic Needs and Practical Exploration of the Enhancement of College Counsellors Professional Competence in the Context of the New Era

In ideological and political education in colleges and universities, counsellors are the backbone of the school and the main instructors and guides of college students learning life. The professional ability of college counsellors is closely related to the effectiveness of student management work. In the new period, college counsellors are facing a new situation, which puts forward higher requirements for counsellors professional ability. For this reason, this paper starts from the professional ability of college counsellors, explores the practical need to improve the professional quality of college counsellors in the new era, and provides reference for promoting the professional ability of college counsellors.

The Revelations of New Quality Productive Forces on the Work of University Counselors

In the contemporary milieu, characterized by the dynamic interplay of technological prowess and interdisciplinary synthesis inherent in new quality productive forces, myriad spheres stand profoundly impacted. Among these, the job of university counselor finds itself amidst fresh horizons of opportunity and challenge under its transformative influence. This discourse endeavors to delve into the reverberations of new quality productive forces on the endeavors of university counselors, embarking on a comprehensive analysis spanning dimensions such as knowledge architecture, working patterns, student cultivation, and the pedagogical resource landscape, with the aim of furnishing insights and paradigms for pedagogical innovation. Central to this exposition is the elucidation of the novel imperatives precipitated by new quality productive forces, including the imperative for counselors to engage in continual scholarship, harness contemporary technological modalities, foster student capacities, and advocate for the equitable dissemination of educational resources. It is hoped that counselors can adapt to emergent paradigms, assume pivotal roles, and contribute to the cultivation of astute talents poised to navigate the exigencies of future societal evolution. Through theoretical discourse, this treatise endeavors to illumine fresh vistas on the pedagogical endeavor, fostering its progression and maturation.

Perceived Influence of Self-Perception on Self-Esteem among Undergraduate Students of Kabarak University in Nakuru County, Kenya

The purpose of this study was to determine the perceived influence of self-perception on self-esteem among undergraduate students of Kabarak University, Nakuru County, Kenya. The researcher used questionnaire for undergraduate students, FGD guide for peer counsellors and interview schedule for university counsellors. Validation of research instruments was done through peer and expert review and through pilot testing, which was done at Kabarak City Campus. The pilot sample consisted of 10 undergraduate students, 5 peer counsellors and 1 student counsellor. The reliability and validity of items was established using Cronbach Alpha Coefficient. The pilot results of the variable self- esteem yielded 0.705 while body image yielded 0.937. The response rate was 96.39%. The data collected was analysed using frequencies, percentages and means (descriptive statistics). The data analysis used the statistical package for social sciences (SPSS). The researcher considered ethics of confidentiality and informed consent. The outcome indicated that most of the sampled students and staffs jointly agreed that self-perception influence self-esteem among undergraduate students of Kabarak University. The study concluded that self-perception has statistically significant perceived influence on self-esteem among undergraduate students of Kabarak University. Therefore, the study recommends that the key stakeholders in counselling department include in the policies and strategies ways on how to address concerns about self-perception and self-esteem. Such policies and strategies would help in improving the efficiency of interventions to address the adverse effects associated with negative self-perception for example depression, low self-esteem and eating disorders.

Exploring sources, impacts, and coping strategies of anxiety among college counselors in China

Exploring sources, impacts, and coping strategies of anxiety among college counselors in China

The Role, Innovative Methods, and Practical Exploration of University Counselors in Educating on Excellent Family Traditions

The Role, Innovative Methods, and Practical Exploration of University Counselors in Educating on Excellent Family Traditions

Turnover Intentions Among College Counselors in China: Examining Predictors and Their Mediating and Moderating Effects

The high attrition rate of college counselors in Chinese colleges has evolved into a social problem that is receiving an increasing amount of attention. The current study aims to investigate the link between organizational justice and organizational commitment on turnover intention and whether this effect is mediated by job satisfaction, drawing upon the framework of Social Exchange Theory. Meanwhile, whether the relationship between organizational justice and turnover intention is moderated by job embeddedness based on the Job Embeddedness Theory. Data gathered from 161 college counselors in China were analyzed using a structural equation model. The results showed significant relationship between organizational justice, organizational commitment, and turnover intention. Furthermore, job embeddedness plays a moderating role in the relationship between job embeddedness and turnover intention; specifically, the higher the degree of job embeddedness, the weaker the effect of organizational justice on turnover intention. Most importantly, it is confirmed that job satisfaction partially mediates the link between organizational justice, organizational commitment, and turnover intention. These outcomes contribute valuable new knowledge that can be employed to improve counselor retention in colleges. Meanwhile, the findings are examined in detail, and recommendations for future studies are provided.

Case Study of “Five-Tier Pyramid” Psychological Education: Analysis of Interpersonal Crisis Intervention for College Students with Depression

In recent years, the prevalence of depression among college students has steadily increased due to factors such as their primary family environment, societal pressures, interpersonal relationships, and self-perception. These students are particularly susceptible to psychological crises upon entering university campuses. Empowering students with depression and serving as their spiritual “ferrymen” is a critical initiative for university counselors committed to their original mission of cultivating virtue and nurturing students. It is essential to thoroughly understand the developmental experiences and real-life challenges faced by students with depression, delving beyond their overt behavioral manifestations to uncover the underlying root causes, thereby effectively addressing their practical issues. This study proposes the “five-tier Pyramid” psychological education framework, which integrates the collaborative efforts of the institution, faculty, counselors, classes, and students. By harnessing the comprehensive effects of holistic, ongoing, and all-encompassing psychological education, it aims to enhance intervention strategies for students with depression, offering practical insights for university counselors engaged in crisis prevention and intervention.

Keyword Analysis of College Counsellor Talking Based on Big Data Technology

College counselling sessions are being revolutionized by the integration of big data technology, offering students personalized and data-driven guidance throughout their academic journey. By leveraging big data analytics, college counsellors can access comprehensive insights into students' academic performance, interests, and aspirations. This wealth of information enables counsellors to tailor their advice and recommendations to meet the unique needs and goals of each student. Moreover, big data technology allows counsellors to identify trends and patterns in student behavior, facilitating proactive interventions to address challenges and enhance success. This paper presents a novel approach for keyword analysis of college counsellor conversations using big data technology, enhanced by Stop Feature Multi-Dimensional Stacked Deep Learning (SFMD-SDL). The proposed methodology aims to extract valuable insights from counseling sessions by analyzing keywords and patterns in counsellor-student interactions. Through simulated experiments and empirical validations, the effectiveness of the SFMD-SDL-enhanced keyword analysis approach is evaluated. Results demonstrate significant improvements in accuracy and efficiency compared to traditional methods. For example, the SFMD-SDL model achieved an average accuracy rate of 90% in identifying key keywords related to student concerns and aspirations. Additionally, the framework enabled counselors to identify emerging trends and patterns in student behavior, facilitating proactive interventions and personalized guidance. These findings underscore the potential of SFMD-SDL in enhancing the effectiveness of college counselor conversations and improving student outcomes.

Educate People with Physical Education: Analysis on the Value and Development Path of Dragon Boat in College Counselors' Ideological and Political Work

In order to carry out the fundamental goal of cultivating people by virtue in colleges and universities and realize a strong country in sports, the education mode of "taking sports as a person" has become one of the important ways. As an excellent traditional sport of the Chinese nation, the dragon boat project has a profound connotation, among which the patriotic elements, collective consciousness and fighting spirit in the dragon boat are conducive to promoting the all-round development of college students. College counselors shoulder the important mission of mastering students' ideological and political situation and cultivating students' good moral quality. The promotion of dragon boat is conducive to the completion of college counselors' mission. At present, the concept of "taking Educate people with physical education" is not paid enough attention; Lack of conditions for dragon boat project; The problem of limited ability of counselors. Put forward to strengthen the concept of "taking Educate people with physical education"; Increase investment in dragon boat projects; The countermeasures to improve college counselors' ability of "taking sports as talents" hope to improve the comprehensive quality of contemporary college students and inherit Chinese excellent traditional culture at the same time.

Challenges and Opportunities of Ethical Leadership for University Counselors

University counselors play a crucial role in today's educational environment, and their ethical leadership is vital in shaping the holistic development of students. However, amidst the constant changes in educational and social environments, counselors face a myriad of challenges and opportunities in ethical leadership. This study aims to delve into the challenges and opportunities of ethical leadership for university counselors, providing a profound understanding of this field and offering substantial recommendations to enhance the ethical leadership skills of university counselors. Through interviews, surveys, and literature reviews, this paper explores counselors' experiences and perspectives on ethical leadership, identifying challenges such as understanding and addressing multicultural backgrounds and revealing opportunities, such as global exchange learning. Based on the findings, the study concludes with practical recommendations to help counselors navigate the evolving educational landscape.

Exploration on the Construction of Counselor Team in the New Era

College counselors play the roles of organizers and implementers in daily ideological and political education and management of students, as well as the main force and guide of ideological and political education for college students. This paper studies the development process and change trend of college counselors, and explores the enlightenment for college counselors in the new era through historical tracing, with a view to cultivating outstanding talents for the new journey of Chinese path to modernization. This article traces and analyzes the development process, main responsibilities, work methods, and management system mechanisms of college counselors, and proposes four inspirations for the work of college counselors in the new era, in order to promote the long-term stable development of the counselor team.

Modified method for college students’ career planning evaluation based on the probabilistic hesitant fuzzy multiple attributes group decision making

The employment of college graduates is related to the overall situation of China’s social development, and the difficulty of employment has become a social problem that cannot be ignored. Through the analysis of the current situation of employment, it is found that the lack of employment guidance in colleges and universities and the lack of employment concept of college students are important factors for the difficulty of college students’ employment, and college counselors play an irreplaceable role in college students’ career planning. Based on the characteristics of college counselors’ work, the paper constructs a career planning evaluation system, hoping to provide new ideas for counselors’ employment guidance. The college students’ career planning evaluation is a multiple attributes group decision making (MAGDM). Recently, the TODIM and GRA technique has been employed to manage MAGDM. The probabilistic hesitant fuzzy sets (PHFSs) are employed as a useful tool for depicting uncertain information during the college students’ career planning evaluation. In this paper, the probabilistic hesitant fuzzy TODIM-GRA (PHF-TODIM-GRA) technique is built to manage the MAGDM under PHFSs. At last, the numerical example for college students’ career planning evaluation is employed to show the PHF-TODIM-GRA technique. The main contribution of this paper is outlined: (1) the TODIM technique based on GRA technique has been extended to PHFSs based on CRITIC technique; (2) the CRITIC technique is employed to derive weight values under PHFSs. (3) the PHF-TODIM-GRA technique is founded to manage the MAGDM under PHFSs; (4) a numerical case study for college students’ career planning evaluation and some comparative analysis is supplied to validate the proposed PHF-TODIM-GRA technique.

A Qualitative Study on the Structure of Professional Psychological Capital of College Counselors in Higher Education

Through literature analysis, deep semi-structured interviews and other methods, this paper constructs the psychological capital model of college counselors' career. On the basis of the psychological capital of optimism, hope, self-confdence, tenacity and so on, it com-bines the uniqueness of college counselors occupation. Considering the special professional psychological capital such as love, enterprising, responsibility and gratitude, it forms the optimal structure dimension of college counselors professional psychological capital. The results show that college counselors professional psychological capital includes optimism, hope, self-confdence, love, tenacity, enterprising, respon-sibility, gratitude and so on.

Prevalence and coping of depression and anxiety among college students during COVID-19 lockdowns in China

BackgroundThis study sought to investigate the prevalence of anxiety, depression and mixed anxiety-depression disorder among college students during COVID-19 shelter-in-place lockdowns in China. MethodsParticipants (N = 2818) were selected from 8 provincial regions across the country in areas that were under lockdown mandates. The dependent variables were anxiety and depression. Multiple regression models were tested using anxiety and depression as the respective outcome variables, and binary logistic regression was conducted with anxiety-depression comorbidity as the dependent variable. Explanatory variables were changes in (social) media use and communication behaviors, perceived effectiveness of daily activity involvements as well as a number of demographic and environmental factors. ResultsBeing a college senior, prior anxiety/depression history, having family members and residents in neighborhood tested positive with COVID were all important predictors of elevated anxiety, depression and their comorbidity. Increased face-to-face family communication and reading more e-books were associated with reduced anxiety, depression and their comorbidity. Listening to music and playing video games were correlated with lower anxiety but not depression. ConclusionsDraconian shelter-in-place lockdowns as strictly enforced in China within a short notice could be detrimental to individual mental health and psychological well-being. Findings in this research can provide practical guidance for college counselors and health professionals in targeting particular segments of the student population in providing tailored psychological, therapeutic and material services during disruptive moments and public health crises. The central role of family communication in the emotional and social support process deserves critical contemplation.

How College Counselors Effectively Help Students Build Confidence

How College Counselors Effectively Help Students Build Confidence

Exploring the Significance and Implementation Strategies of Mental Health Education for College Students

College students are influenced by diverse cultures in the new era, thus their inner world is rich and changingrapidly. The acceleration of social rhythm can easily lead to different kinds of psychological problems. Mental health education is people-oriented, using scientific methods and means to train high-quality talents with all-round development across the world. A healthy psychological state can promote the sound development of students, make them establish correct core social values, and realize self-value. At present, there are some problems in university mental health education, such as single form and imperfect system. At the same time, college education plays an important role in the formation of ideas for college students’ ideological values. As a front-line student worker, college counselors should cooperate with the school’s psychological departments to improve the college psychological education system, rationally plan the psychological teaching program, and pay attention to the college students’ mental health education. The government should also take into account the need to ensure that the education system is not undermined by the lack of a comprehensive and effective education system.

An exploration of integrating the dual collegiate system into the English public speaking activity for non-governmental college students—taking the dark horse speaker at Chongqing College of Mobile Communication as an example

The article is an exploration of the English public speaking activity, the dark horse speaker (DHS) held at Chongqing College of Mobile Communication (the College). The article provides readers with a general picture of the general operation of the activity integrating the dual collegiate system and the complementary roles of the college instructors and the residential college counselors in the DHS. At the end of the thesis, a reflection is given for the further improvement of the speech activity.

Biracial adolescents and young adults in college counseling

Given the growing prevalence of individuals of mixed race in the US, it is important for college counsellors to attend to how these individuals are socially pressured to understand their own racial identities. Though some scholarships suggest that it is healthy for biracial individuals to identify with the minority part of their identity, I argue that this pressure is in fact special to the US and rooted in a history of slavery. Through a cross-cultural comparison of biracial identity in the US and Haiti, and through examples and techniques from my own experience as a college counselor, I argue that the ability to embrace one’s dual racial identity as mixed individuals may be a healthier choice because it prevents internal dissonance and helps biracial young adults grapple with the effects of White supremacy on their identities