Helping Professions Research Articles

Psychometric Properties of Job Satisfaction Scale in Slovak Helping Professions: Preliminary Results

Problem Statement; Job satisfaction is associated with positive outcomes at work and in certain other aspects of life. Job satisfaction is regarded as an important indicator to determine the levels of career success and accomplishment. In the past decades, job satisfaction among the worker in helping professions has received little attention in Slovakia. Purpose of Study; The purpose of this study was to adapt JSS to Slovak language so that it can be used in Slovakia especially on helping personnel in social care. In this study, we aimed to confirm its factor structure, analyse its convergent and discriminant validity, and internal consistency. Methods; The 36-item Job Satisfaction Scale (JSS, Spector, 1985) was used to measure job satisfaction. This scale was translated into Slovak language using forward translation, assessment of forward translation, backward translation, assessment of backward translation, and local meeting with professionals. External students of social work and workers who practiced helping professions in social care participated in the research and completed Job Satisfaction Scale, Professional Quality of Life Scale (Stamm (2010), Life Orientation Test – Revised (Scheier, Carver, & Bridges (1994), Scales on Well-Being (SEHP) (Dzuka, & Dalbert, 2002). The internal consistency and discriminant validity of JSS was examined. Findings and Results; It was revealed that higher level of job satisfaction was linked with optimism, higher frequency of experiencing positive emotions and lower frequency of experiencing negative emotions. Conclusions; The preliminary results confirmed the factor structure of JSS. Description of the psychometric properties of the Slovak version of the Job Satisfaction Scale and the interpretation of the results will be discussed in the paper. Keywords: Job satisfaction; helping professions; validity; reliability

Selected Impulses of the Synods of Bishops on the Family (2014, 2015) and of the Post-Synodal Apostolic Exhortation Amoris laetitia (2016) for the Helping Professions

Selected Impulses of the Synods of Bishops on the Family (2014, 2015) and of the Post-Synodal Apostolic Exhortation Amoris laetitia (2016) for the Helping Professions

Transphobia Among Students Majoring in the Helping Professions

ABSTRACTThe study was designed to further the understanding of transphobia among students majoring in the helping professions including social work, occupational therapy, and nursing. The study’s hypotheses examined the effects of transgender content in education (e.g., textbooks and lectures), religiosity, contact with transgender people, and several sociodemographic variables with transphobia. Differences in transphobia levels between social work students and those in aligned professions were also explored. The sample consisted of 600 students of a public, urban university in New York City who participated in an online survey. Measures included transphobia and transgender content scales. Students reported (75%) a deficient amount of transgender content in education, and almost one half of the sample reported moderate to high levels of transphobia. Other findings showed that transgender content in education was positively correlated with transphobia, and 1-way ANOVA showed that transphobia differed significantly across the majors. The author suggestions included increasing transgender content in textbooks, lectures, and class discussions as well as developing field sites that provide students with opportunities to serve this population.

Personality Traits of Students of Helping and Non-Helping Professions

Personality traits are very important in choosing future profession because most professions require certain skills that are related to certain personality traits. The aim of our research was to determine which personality traits contribute the most to the distinction between the students of different professions, e.g. helping and non-helping professions. On a sample of 356 students, of which 216 study helping professions, Big Five Plus Two (BF+2) personality inventory was applied. For obtained data, the classification accuracies were tested with different combinations of 184 items and 18 subtraits of the BF+2 using Case based reasoning classifier. Results showed that the best accuracy had the set of all 18 subtraits and this set outperformed the classification of every combination of subtraits or items.

Predicting Attitudes Toward Lesbian and Gay Parent Families Among Portuguese Students from Helping Professions

ABSTRACTThe authors' goal was to characterize predictors of attitudes toward lesbian and gay parent families (LGPF), held by students enrolled in psychology, social work, medicine, nursing, elementary, and preschool education programs in Portugal. The authors examined the predictive value of students' (n = 600) sociodemographic characteristics when assessing their attitudes toward LGPF. Participant's gender, interpersonal contact with lesbians and gay men, gender role attitudes had indirect effects on attitudes toward LGPF, through attitudes toward lesbians and gay men. Understanding characteristics associated with attitudes toward LGPF may inform decisions in terms of the education and training of helping professionals.

Proactive Coping Behavior in Sample of University Students in Helping Professions

The purpose of the present study is twofold. First is to carry out item and scale analysis of the Czech version of the Proactive Coping Inventory (PCI) on a selected sample of university students in helping professions (n = 176). Second is to identify the use of proactive coping strategies by gender, age, specialization and year of study. The PCI scales reached satisfactory item-total correlations, besides the items presented (8, 39 and 48). Internal consistency of the PCI scales ranged from .71 to .8, except low α for Strategic Planning. Students reached the highest use of emotional and instrumental support seeking with no overall socio-demographic differences. Further, interrelationships among the PCI scales and correlations within a subjective well-being, depression and social support are presented.

Revalidating the Religious/Spiritually Integrated Practice Assessment Scale With Five Helping Professions

Objective: This article describes the validation of the Religious/Spiritually Integrated Process Assessment Scale (RSIPAS) across five helping professions. The RSIPAS was originally developed to measure clinical social workers’ self-efficacy, attitudes, perceived feasibility, behaviors, and overall orientation toward integrating clients’ religion and spirituality in practice. Method: The current study examines the internal consistency and criterion, discriminant, convergent, and factorial validity of this instrument with a sample of clinical social workers, psychologists, nurses, counselors, and marriage and family therapists in Texas ( N = 550). Results: Findings support the reliability (α = .95) and various forms of validity, with an improved fit in the factor structure among this more diverse sample. Conclusions: The RSIPAS may be used among these five helping professions to identify training needs or evaluate training efforts related to the integration of clients’ religious or spiritual beliefs in mental and behavioral health treatment.

Framing Ethics for Engaged Professionalism in the Helping Professions

Framing Ethics for Engaged Professionalism in the Helping Professions

A Comparison of Attitudes Toward Lesbians and Gay Men Among Students of Helping Professions in Crete, Greece: The Cases of Social Work, Psychology, Medicine, and Nursing

This study investigated the attitudes toward lesbians and gay men among social work, psychology, medical, and nursing students in Crete, Greece, using Herek’s ATLG scale. No respondents held completely heterosexist attitudes; only 1.6% held completely non-heterosexist attitudes. The 44.96 total ATLG score indicates a slightly positive attitude toward lesbians and gay men. Psychology students scored higher than all others on positive attitudes, followed by social work students, medical students, and nursing students. Gender, having lesbian or gay acquaintances or friends, and religiosity were significant factors influencing students’ attitudes, while no impact on attitudes due to the effects of higher education could be discerned. Implications for curriculum design and teaching methods are discussed.

Adversarial Allies: Care, Harm, and Resistance in the Helping Professions

Professional encounters bestow moral esteem upon professional helpers while denigrating those who access services. Yet society is arranged in such a way that professional services are indispensable for many to survive, and service users can experience them as simultaneously helpful and oppressive. We explore the ambivalent figure of the professional “adversarial ally” working within these systems through accounts from two research studies that straddle or resist the common-sense line that separates care from harm. Professionals need to acknowledge how we are experienced as adversaries in order to better forge relationships of solidarity or “alliance” with those using social and medical services.

Thinking, Theory, and Experience in the Helping Professions

The author proposes a phenomenological description of thinking and theory in the experience of therapists, counselors, supervisors, trainers, consultants, and other helping professionals. A model of two related modes of thinking is developed to account for the transition from explicit conceptual thinking to thinking in the moment in the presence of persons and groups. Dependance of thinking on particular points of view and processes, and confrontation with experience through vigilance and evaluation, are also discussed. Finally, some consequences for training and professional evolution are suggested.

New Challenges to the Helping Professions - 40 years after Carl Rogers

Ever radical, even in his eighties, Carl Rogers maintained a critical eye upon the development of counselling and psychotherapy as a profession, as well as continuing to stimulate questions about t...

Forty Years on from Rogers' APA Address, ‘Some New Challenges for the Helping Professions’

SYNOPSISIn beginning to contemplate what I might write for this invitation to follow Carl Rogers, 40 years on, I initially felt flattered to be asked and daunted to follow such a pioneer and towering figure within psychology as Rogers. In beginning to contemplate what I had to say, I began to feel that the invitation to ‘speak to the profession’ also felt something of an anathema to my humanistic values. I didn't feel in any position to highlight issues for the profession and to make suggestions to address them; this felt rather too grand. I have therefore chosen to explore what I see as the most immediate challenges for me as a ‘helping professional’ rather than for all, and hope that others may find that my subjective, perhaps parochial concerns might serve as a catalyst for their own reflection. I am also aware that what have become my pre-occupations arise from my position in the UK (for this I apologise in advance), my position as a parent of five young children (four of them daughters), and from my ...

Clinical Supervision and the Helping Professions: An Interpretation of History

The published literature on clinical supervision in relation to the helping professions, particularly nursing, has been essentially contained to the past two decades and has largely rested at the level of description. This article traces the origins back to the pioneering charity work of European and North American social reformers of the eighteenth century. Historical documents are reviewed to posit a discussion of the historical development of clinical supervision, linked across continents and within and among helping professions and human service agencies, to establish a contemporary international relevance for the associated professions and to help establish a convincing evidence base for practice.

Emotional Resilience in the Helping Professions and how it can be Enhanced

This paper provides an overview of research that has examined the benefits of emotional resilience for the wellbeing and employability of helping professionals such as social workers, nurses and midwives. It outlines the competencies that have been associated with emotional resilience (such as emotional literacy, reflective ability, appropriate empathy and social competence) and considers how they have the potential to help people to cope with the emotional demands inherent in the helping professions. Some evidence-based strategies are highlighted to help academic staff develop an ‘emotional curriculum’ to foster emotional resilience in students training for the helping professions.

Book Review: Social Class and the Helping Professions: A Clinician’s Guide to Navigating the Landscape of Class in America

Book Review: Social Class and the Helping Professions: A Clinician’s Guide to Navigating the Landscape of Class in America

Book Reviews: Applied Psychology: Research, Training and Practice, 2nd ed., Ethical Maturity in the Helping Professions: Making Difficult Life and Work Decisions, Feedback in Higher and Professional Education: Understanding it and Doing it Well, Interpersonal Regulation of Learning and Motivation: Methodological Advances, Psychometric Assessment, Statistics and Report Writing, Qualitative Research: The Essential Guide to Theory and Practice, Understanding Abnormal Psychology:

Book Reviews: Applied Psychology: Research, Training and Practice, 2nd ed., Ethical Maturity in the Helping Professions: Making Difficult Life and Work Decisions, Feedback in Higher and Professional Education: Understanding it and Doing it <i>Well</i>, Interpersonal Regulation of Learning and Motivation: Methodological Advances, Psychometric Assessment, Statistics and Report Writing, Qualitative Research: The Essential Guide to Theory and Practice, Understanding Abnormal Psychology:

Supervision in the Helping Professions Supervision in the Helping Professions

Supervision in the Helping Professions Supervision in the Helping Professions

Book Review

Journal of Paramedic PracticeVol. 5, No. 9 Book ReviewBook ReviewEwan ArmitageEwan ArmitageSearch for more papers by this authorEwan ArmitagePublished Online:29 Sep 2013https://doi.org/10.12968/jpar.2013.5.9.530AboutSectionsView articleView Full TextPDF/EPUB ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InEmail View article FiguresReferencesRelatedDetails 1 September 2013Volume 5Issue 9ISSN (print): 1759-1376ISSN (online): 2041-9457 Metrics History Published online 29 September 2013 Published in print 1 September 2013 Information© MA Healthcare LimitedPDF download

“Cripping” Resilience: Contributions from Disability Studies to Resilience Theory

“Cripping” Resilience: Contributions from Disability Studies to Resilience Theory