Psychological Counseling Methods Research Articles

The developmental trajectory of college students’ psychological flexibility: Based on latent growth model

The purpose of this study is to explore the development law of college students' psychological flexibility (PF), the influencing factors of demographic variables, and group heterogeneity through longitudinal tracking. This study collected the PF data of 1068 college students in three times and constructed the data model. Results show that the PF level of college students exhibited a significant upward trend across the three measurements, gender and left-behind experience had a remarkable impact on the slope factor. It means the PF of college students improves over time, gender and left-behind experience may affect the speed and amplitude of the improvement. The development trajectory of PF of college students showed obvious group heterogeneity and could be divided into the “high flexibility-low development group” (92%) and the “low flexibility-high development group” (8%). It means college students can be divided into two categories, which allows for the implementation of tailored psychological counseling and intervention methods. The practical significance of this study is that it has a certain grasp of the development track and law of college students' PF, which is helpful for mental health educators to teach students by their aptitude. According to the development characteristics of different types of college students' PF, different methods of psychological counseling and intervention are adopted to improve the effectiveness of mental health education.

Psychological counseling on the anxiety of technical personnel

BackgroundAnxiety disorder is a common psychological disorder, manifested as excessive worry, fear, fear and other emotions, seriously affect the quality of life of patients. The therapeutic methods of psychological counseling include cognitive behavior therapy, interpersonal therapy, psychodynamic therapy and so on. Compared with drug treatment, psychological counseling does not produce drug dependence, fewer side effects, and good long-term effects. This study is based on psychological counseling to explore the anxiety of technical personnel in strategic emerging industries in Fujian province, China.Subjects and MethodsIn this study, 338 technical personnel in strategic emerging industries in Fujian Province were selected as the research subjects and divided into experimental groups and control groups with same number. The control group did not take any intervention measures, and the experimental group received psychological counseling. The scores of Self-rating Anxiety Scale (SAS), self-rating Depression Scale (SDS), Wechsler Adult Intelligence Test (WAIS-RC) and Health Survey Summary Form (SF-36) were compared between the two groups. T-test was performed on the measurement data.ResultsBefore the experiment, there was no significant difference in SAS and SDS scores between the two groups (P > 0.05). After the experiment, SAS and SDS scores of the experimental group were significantly lower than those of the control group (P < 0.05). The scores of verbal comprehension, memory and attention in the experimental group were significantly higher than those in the control group (P < 0.05). The scores of physiological function, mental function, mental health and vitality of the experimental group were significantly higher than those of the control group (P < 0.05).Reply: Thank you for pointing out this issue. We have rewritten the methods and results section of another article.ConclusionsPsychological counseling can effectively alleviate the anxiety of technical personnel in strategic emerging industries in Fujian Province and improve their quality of life.AcknowledgementXiamen Institute of Technology 2023 University-level Research Fund Project (No.KYZX2023028); The 2022 “I contribute good ideas to the construction of A New Fujian” (No.JAT22128).

Introduction of applied psychology in human resource management of vocational colleges and universities for guiding students and patients with mood disorders

BackgroundStudents may experience many psychological problems due to academic pressure and family environment, while teachers may also experience mood disorders due to work pressure and low income. The conventional psychological counseling methods have had limited effectiveness, so the study aims to introduce applied psychology into human resource management in vocational colleges in order to improve human resource management to provide counseling for students, teachers, and patients with mood disorders.Subjects and Methods Sixty-six faculty and student patients with dysphoria in a higher-level institution were taken as objects of study, and the two sets of prisoners were categorized into Group E and Group F. Among them, Group E adopts the traditional approach to humanity administration in higher vocational colleges, and Group F adopts the approach to humanity administration in higher vocational colleges that integrates applied psychology. The experiment lasted for six months and quantified the mental status of teachers and students using the Yang Mania Scale and the Concise Psychiatric Scale. After the experiment, statistical analysis was conducted using SPSS 26.0.Results After the experiment, the manic score of Group F was 8.00 ± 2.51 points, and the psychiatric symptom score was 15 ± 1.11 points, both lower than Group E and before the experiment.ConclusionsThe introduction of applied psychology in human resource management in vocational colleges has an effective effect on guiding students and patients with mood disorders.

The therapeutic effect of ikebana teaching combined with ACT on obsessive-compulsive disorder college students

BackgroundIn recent years, due to academic pressure, changes in interpersonal relationships, and living environments, the mental health problems of college students have gradually become prominent, with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) becoming an indispensable part. Patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder often suffer from recurring obsessive-compulsive beliefs and behaviors, seriously affecting their daily lives and academic performance. Therefore, seeking effective intervention methods is crucial.Subjects and MethodsThe experiment selected 60 students with obsessive-compulsive disorder from a particular school and randomly divided them into an experimental group and a control group, with 30 students in each group. The experimental group received practical teaching of flower arrangement art and acceptance commitment therapy (ACT). The control group only used traditional psychological counseling methods. The experimental period is six months, and the data is statistically processed using SPSS 24.0 and Excel.ResultsAfter a 6-month intervention, the obsessive-compulsive symptoms in the experimental group were significantly reduced, with a total effective rate of 90%, while the effective rate in the control group was 60%. In addition, the experimental group’s self-efficacy, emotional regulation ability, and quality of life also significantly improved.Conclusions The combination of flower arrangement art practice teaching and acceptance commitment therapy has shown sound intervention effects in treating obsessive-compulsive disorder college students. This combined treatment method can not only effectively alleviate obsessive-compulsive symptoms but also enhance the patient’s psychological resilience and self-management ability. Promoting this method has significant practical value in future mental health work.AcknowledgementHunan Province General Higher Education Teaching Reform Research Project (General Education Project) (No. HNJG-2020-1170).

The Significance and Methods of Psychological Counseling for College Students

The Significance and Methods of Psychological Counseling for College Students

Features of the Ontogenetic Dynamics of Protective-Couping Behavior

Introduction. The theme of ontogenetic dynamics of defense mechanisms and coping strategies is one of the least explored areas in the psychology of defense-coping behavior. A detailed and thorough analysis of this area will contribute to a clearer understanding of the ways to overcome stress and the mechanisms of their formation in different age periods. Understanding the age-related features of defense-coping behavior will lead to the emergence of more effective methods of psychological counseling, psychotherapy, and psychocorrection of various age groups. Such individualization of therapy will increase the well-being of both the individual personality and various social groups and society as a whole.Purpose. This research conducts a theoretical analysis of research dedicated to ontogenetic changes in coping behavior, analyzes protective psychological mechanisms, and strategies for overcoming stress inherent in different ages. The aim is to identify the patterns of age dynamics of defense-coping behavior and to define its characteristics inherent in different age groups.Materials and Methods. The study was conducted through a theoretical-methodological analysis of literature dedicated to defense-coping behavior within the framework of its age changes. Methods of analysis, synthesis, comparison, and generalization were applied. Monographs and publications of domestic and foreign authors describing cross-sectional and longitudinal studies of the ontogenetic dynamics of defense-coping behavior served as the material for the study.Results. The characteristics of the defense-coping sphere of personality at different age periods were noted. The similarities and contradictions of longitudinal and cross-sectional studies in this sphere were analyzed and summarized. An attempt was made to explain the ontogenetic features of defense-coping behavior from the perspective of age psychology. The results obtained can serve as a basis for developing and conducting experimental studies and applying their data in the field of education, health care, and other areas of social life.Conclusion. The authors have identified general patterns that provide a basis for further experimental study of the stated problem.

Personality and Risk-Perception Profiles with Regard to Subjective Wellbeing and Company Management: Corporate Managers during the Covid-19 Pandemic

This study examined the role of the Big Five personality traits and risk perception profiles among a sample of corporate managers concerning their subjective wellbeing (SWB) and corporate management practices during the Covid-19 pandemic. Two hundred and fifty-five chief executive officers (CEOs) and chief financial officers (CFOs) of companies listed on the main market of the Warsaw Stock Exchange (WSE) in Poland participated in the study by completing the Satisfaction with Life Scale, Positive and Negative Affect Scale, Ten-Item Personality Inventory, Stimulation-Instrumental Risk Inventory, and a business survey on the Covid-19 pandemic’s impact on company management. Latent profile analysis revealed the existence of diverse profiles among the participants regarding personality traits and risk perception, which were variously related to their SWB and managerial practices during the pandemic. It seems that individual differences in personality traits and risk perception not only matter for the individual life satisfaction of managers but may also translate into effective company management in times of crisis. The results of our study may be an adjunct to understanding underlying sources of managerial biases in corporate management as well as to developing more effective methods of psychological counseling of corporate managers, a topic that remains still a highly understudied research area.

The correlation between the types of human temperament and somatic diseases, including coronavirus disease

The research deals with the psychological issues of optimizing the behavior of an individual and society in the situation of coronavirus pandemic. The aim of the research is to outline the psychological tools for overcoming personality distress due to the data on the correlation between the types of human temperament and the types of stress and somatic diseases, including coronavirus disease. The tasks of the research stemming from its aim are as follows: presenting an objective method of ascertaining the types of human temperament; finding out the correlation between the types of human temperament and the temperamental types of stress and somatic diseases, including coronavirus disease, due to the rich experience in psychotherapeutic activities of the authors; making supposition as for the most likely vulnerable high-risk group of the coronavirus disease in a pandemic process; outlining some important approaches of psychological counseling and psychotherapeutic work with the clients in coronavirus pandemic. The methodological foundations of the study are connected with scientific concepts, psychological, psychotherapeutic and medical ideas concerning the nature of stress/distress and the methods of overcoming their negative effects. The participants in the experimental work are about 4000 clients having taken part in authors' psychological counseling and psychotherapeutic activity. The used methods are the objective computerized method of ascertaining the types of human temperament as well as the methods of psychological counseling. It is shown that there are five types of stress which correspond to five types of human temperament. The fifth type is called an equilibrium type, since it is located between choleroids and sanguinoids, on the one hand, and melancholoids and phlegmatoids, on the other. Thus, the psychotherapeutic work with people to overcome stress should take into account their temperament. The experimental data enable to make a supposition about such preferred diseases and the symptoms stemming from the conditions of person's psychodynamic incongruence, as: a) possible cholecystitis, hepatitis in choleroids; b) myocardial infarction in sanguinoids (about half of their total number); c) lung diseases and the problems with kidneys in the representatives of the equilibrium type; d) angina pectoris and hypertension in melancholoids; e) probable gastrointestinal disorders and diseases, even stomach ulcers in phlegmatoids. The representatives of equilibrium type of temperament are characterized by pulmonary and renal diseases as preferred diseases. There are 4 % of such representatives in the entire population. In the light of statistical data on coronavirus disease in a pandemic, they can be considered a high-risk group. It is this group that can form the core of 10-15 % of the population who actually are open to the coronavirus threat.

Psychological Counseling and Adaptive Adjustment Methods for Employment Psychological Distress Based on Intelligent Internet of Things

With the rapid progress of the current era, the outside employment pressure has gradually become severe, and with more and more college students, the competition pressure is also gradually rising, which also leads to many college students in the face of psychological problems from campus to society. In this paper, based on the intelligent Internet of Things, the psychological problems that easily arise when college students are employed are explained, and from the problem, targeted employment guidance is proposed, and a comprehensive debugging method of related causes is proposed. Using the mathematical modeling method, the traditional psychological counseling and the intelligent IoT-based psychological counseling methods are compared. It was found that the counseling time was reduced by 30%, the consideration of problems was more comprehensive, the number of students’ consultation problems was increased by 32%, and the number of debugging was increased by 23.

Psychological Counseling in Universities under New Normal Goals

Based on the investigation of College Students' psychological problems and the analysis of College Students' psychological status, this paper designs and develops a college students' psychological counseling support system according to the relevant theories and methods of psychological counseling. The system has a variety of forms of psychological counseling. Through peer chat rooms, language, text, music and other media, it can guide, help and inspire the psychological problems of the helpers, so as to alleviate the psychological tension and conflict of the helpers. The results show that emergency source can change the cognition, emotion, attitude and behavior of College students so that it can better adapt to the university environment and keep healthy.

ПСИХОЛОГІЧНА ДОПОМОГА ЖЕРТВАМ ПСИХОЛОГІЧНОГО НАСИЛЛЯ У СУЧАСНІЙ СІМ’Ї

THE MODERN FAMILYIntroduction. Domestic violence should be seen as a complex problem, including measures aimed at stopping crimes against the individual, which ensure the right of every family member as a citizen to security of life, liberty and protection of dignity, as well as measures aimed at social prevention, that is, to prevent domestic violence. The importance of this direction is obvious, as the state policy to prevent domestic violence has not yet been formed.Purpose. Disclosure of procedural and substantive aspects of the organization of psychological assistance to victims of psychological violence in the modern family.Methods. To achieve the goal and achieve the objectives of the study used a number of theoretical methods: analysis, synthesis, generalization, comparison and systematization of Ukrainian and foreign scientific psychological sources on the problem of psychological violence, particularly in the family.Originality. Domestic violence should be seen as a complex problem, including measures aimed at stopping crimes against the individual, which ensure the right of every family member as a citizen to security of life, liberty and protection of dignity, as well as measures aimed at social prevention, that is, to prevent domestic violence. The importance of this direction is obvious, as the state policy to prevent domestic violence has not yet been formed. Psychotherapy for victims of domestic violence should be comprehensive and contain a differentiated combination of methods of psychological counseling, family, personality-oriented, individual and behavioral psychotherapy. The technology of providing psychological assistance to survivors of domestic violence is implemented through the joint work of professional psychologists, pediatricians and social workers. As a result of their efforts, problem families are provided with support in resolving conflict situations, psychological support for victims of violence.Conclusion. The specificity of socio-pedagogical assistance to victims of violence is the focus on positive change in the environment in which the victim of violence. Prevention of psychological violence in the family, which aims to harmonize family relationships, improve mutual understanding in the family, eliminate negative emotional attitudes in spouses, consists of four stages: building a therapeutic alliance, reproducing the problem, restructuring the problem, developing «theory healing».

Analysis of topics and characteristics of user reviews on different online psychological counseling methods

BackgroundPsychological support is available more widely supported by emerging technologies as an addition to face-to-face consultations, more and more people are accessing psychological support using online resources. ObjectiveThis research provides insights into the perception of the key factors that affect the effectiveness of different online psychological counseling methods through the user reviews of four online psychological counseling modes and the tendency to choose the different counseling methods for users with different psychological problems. MethodsUsing topic modeling analysis, Gooseeker content analysis, and the TextMind Chinese psychological analysis system, we analyzed 163,377 online reviews from 2,375 psychological consultants extracted from a leading online psychological consultation platform in China. Results(1) Telephone counseling gains the most preferences among users. Text counseling has strong privacy protection. Video and face-to-face consultations are more authentic and comprehensive. (2) Parent-child education consultation users are more likely to choose face-to-face consultation, patients with common mental illnesses are more inclined to choose online counseling methods than offline consultation, career planning consultation clients prefer video consultation, and text counseling is more consistent with the periodical characteristics of relationship counseling. ConclusionThe research examined user reviews and used content analysis to understand patients' views on the effectiveness of online counseling methods, which supplement the current research gap through innovation in research methods.

A Study on the Consultation for Technology Leakage Victim Using NLP

Purpose: The purpose of this study is that victims of technology leaks and people concerned about leaks complain of stress over security concerns. However, there are no psychological treatments among the government's comprehensive plans to prevent technology leaks. Therefore, the government intends to present education methods using the NLP (Neuro Linguistic Program), a collective counseling technique, to heal the psychological injury of the victims. Psychological counseling methods include cognitive behavioral therapy, psychoanalytic behavioral therapy, humanism therapy, art therapy, and other psychological therapies. Among them, NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming) method was used. NLP has three concepts: neuron, language, and programming, and is used as a general method for group counseling. Research design, data and methodology: In relation to composition, Chapter 1 explained the purpose and necessity of the study, Chapter 2 explained the types of psychological counseling and NLPs to help understand the study, introduced the prior study related to the development of collective counseling programs through NLP, and Chapter 3 developed a security psychological counseling education program. In addition, FGI(Focus Group Interview) was conducted for professionals. Results: Corporate counseling considered most in this study should satisfy client, counselor and manager differently from individual counseling. For this purpose, the result was composed of 11 times. In order to derive personal problems for clients, they consisted of finding, loving, expressing, and emancipating self. And, It solved the leakage anxiety to suggest a professional solution for the counselor. In addition, this course helps them become familiar with counseling techniques for becoming a good security administrator. Lastly, it was configured to leave the result for the manager to suggest the organizational development method through this training. The implication of this study is to derive psychological counseling methods for security officers. Most companies in the field of security counseling complain about technology leakage stress. There is currently no psychotherapy support project under the policy. And It was developed because it can expect sales improvement from security consultation. Conclusions: In conclusion, the results were organized to be left to the manager so that he could suggest how to develop the organization through this time.

Psychological Counseling for Adult Clients

The article analyzes methodological and practical approaches of psychological counseling for adult clients. General psychological problems of this age group are generalized; the concept of restoration of balance between the image of the world and the image of the “I” of clients as the main internal mechanism of mental equilibrium is substantiated; the aspects of professional training of a psychologist to advisory practice with adults are considered.The urgent problem of psychological counseling for adult clients is to help them to solve such problems as negative behaviors, disadaptation, loss of the meaning of life, addictive behavior, depression, etc. Psychological help should be carried out in the direction of qualitative transformations of the image of the world and the image of “I”, which envisage the expansion of knowledge about the world, its positive emotional experience, the realism of ideological beliefs. The general trend in the development of the worldview is the lack of realism in the image of the world, which affects the formation of a false system of values, the development of distorted moral ideas, and as a consequence, problems of health, self-realization, professional adaptation, and behavior deviations.The purpose of the article is to substantiate the methodology and methods of psychological counseling for clients of the adult age group. Specialization of practical activity of a psychologist with this age category requires special knowledge, skills, and skills from a specialist that qualitatively differ from the provision of psychological services to other age groups (children, adolescents, etc.). The success of solving the psychological problems of clients entirely depends on the introduction of the correct, in other words, “more objective”, realistic methodology of counseling. The task of the article is to describe specific aspects of advisory psychological counseling for adults.Summarizing the issue of adult counseling, we note that this type of activity requires from a psychologist to continuously improve the theoretical knowledge and practical skills, as well as to rethink the life experience. The presence of only one of the components of this activity provokes unprofessionality – it often manifests as the behavior in the style of a teacher, a teacher of higher education, in which there is a somewhat superficial, authoritarian attitude to students. Consequently, effective counseling for adult clients is stimulated by professional introspection and qualification in order to avoid professional deviation. Therefore, it is advisable for a psychologist to gain experience with clients (patients) of the adult age group to practice in a counseling center under the guidance of a specialist, and if this is a medical institution – a doctor or therapist.

A Study about Psychological Counseling Methods for Mental Curing Classified by Sasang Constitution

A Study about Psychological Counseling Methods for Mental Curing Classified by Sasang Constitution

Telephone Counseling to Improve Osteoporosis Treatment Adherence: An Effectiveness Study in Community Practice Settings

Treatment nonadherence is a recognized problem, but most practice settings use education alone to address it. Psychological counseling methods generate greater behavior change but are not widely used. Telehealth nursing can be used to integrate these methods into routine clinical practice. This study was a nonrandomized trial of a telehealth program that used motivational interviewing and cognitive- behavioral techniques to improve osteoporosis medication adherence. Registered nurses delivered the intervention to 402 participants recruited from provider offices across the United States. Initial participation rates were high in this community-based sample, although attrition also was high. Six-month adherence based on pharmacy and clinical interview data was significantly higher than the general population rate. A comparison with nonparticipants approached significance, and there was a significant dose-response effect. Most reasons given for nonadherence were psychological. The results support the use of psychological techniques to improve adherence and the use of telehealth to disseminate evidence-based patient counseling.