Counseling Research Research Articles

Usaha Meningkatkan Konsep Diri yang Positif Siswa Kelas XII TKJ 2 SMKN 2 Pinrang Melalui Konseling Peer Group

The objectives of this research are (i) to improve the ability of forming positive self concept on the students of class XII TKJ 2 SMK Negeri 2 Pinrang, (ii) students able to improve positive self concept after guidance and counseling process through peer group counseling. This research is guidance and counseling research. This research uses Kemmis and Mc Taggart model which consist of four stages: (i) planning, (ii) Action, (iii) Observation, (iv) Reflection (reflection). The subjects of the research are the students of class XII TKJ 2 SMK Negeri 2 Pinrang. Data were analyzed using descriptive analysis. The results showed that: (i) the application of peer group counseling in the process of guidance and counseling services can improve students' positive self concept in the students of class XII TKJ 2 SMK Negeri 2 Pinrang in the first cycle by 8.66% and increase again by 11.46 % after the second cycle of action, and (ii) through the application of peer group counseling, trained and skilled students to work with friends in solving problems.

Self-Efficacy, Attachment Style and Service Delivery of Elementary School Counseling

Professional school counselors are important contributors to education and serve an essential role in the academic, personal, social and career development of all students (American School Counselor Association [ASCA], 2012). Over the past decade, school counselors have been increasingly called upon to embrace data-driven, evidence-based standards of practice (ASCA, 2012; Erford, 2016) that bolster the achievement of all students (Shillingford & Lambie, 2010). Comprehensive developmental school counseling programs that are consistent with the ASCA National Model are currently considered best practice (ASCA, 2012) and identified as an effective means of delivering services to all students (Burnham & Jackson, 2000; Carey & Dimmitt, 2012; Gysbers & Henderson, 2012).Data from school counseling research indicate that comprehensive developmental school counseling programs make a positive difference in student outcomes (Carey & Dimmitt, 2012; Scarborough & Luke, 2008). These programs are shown to impact overall student development positively, including academic, career and emotional development, as well as academic achievement (Fitch & Marshall, 2004; Lapan, Gysbers, & Petroski, 2001; Sink & Stroh, 2003). Furthermore, a range of individual school counselor activities and interventions is associated with positive changes in a number of important student outcomes, including academic performance, school attendance, classroom behavior and selfesteem (Whiston, Tai, Rahardja, & Eder, 2011).However, studies examining actual school counselor practice indicate that school counselors spend a significant amount of time on activities that are not reflective of ASCA best practices, including clerical, administrative and fair share duties that take them away from performing essential school counseling activities (Bardhoshi, Schweinle, & Duncan, 2014; Burnham & Jackson, 2000; Foster, Young, & Hermann, 2005; Scarborough & Luke, 2008). A factor impeding school counselors' ability to perform activities that align with best practices includes being burdened with time-consuming tasks that are outside their scope of practice (Bardhoshi et al., 2014). This may stem from either the historically ambiguous school counselor role (Gysbers & Henderson, 2012) or from competing demands from numerous stakeholders who may not fully understand the components of an effective school counseling program (Bemak & Chung, 2008). Indeed, school counselors report not spending adequate time engaged in the professional activities that they prefer (Scarborough, 2005; Scarborough & Luke, 2008), even though these preferences are consistent with best practice recommendations (Scarborough & Culbreth, 2008). Therefore, for many school counselors, performing within their professional role and sticking to best practice recommendations regarding their service delivery can be challenging and stressful (McCarthy, Kerne, Calfa, Lambert, & Guzman, 2010).Given that school counseling program implementation and interventions that align with ASCA are associated with positive outcomes for students in a variety of domains, and that tension exists between the actual and preferred practice of school counselors, the question now becomes: What factors contribute to effective school counseling service delivery? Studies indicate a positive relationship between years of experience and school counselor practice (Scarborough & Culbreth, 2008; Sink & Yillik-Downer, 2001), as it may take several years of experience to implement the breadth and complexity of interventions in a programmatic manner. Research outside the field of school counseling also has expanded beyond demographic variables to indicate that a number of individual characteristics, such as attachment style (Dozier, Lomax Tyrrell, & Lee, 2001; Hazan & Shaver, 1987), emotional stability, locus of control, self-esteem (Judge & Bono, 2001) and self-efficacy (Judge & Bono, 2001; Larson & Daniels, 1998), are related to an individual's work performance. …

A Discourse Map on Counseling International Students in Korea

The number of international students has drastically increased over a decade in Korea. And a psychological demand to make them successfully adjust their college life in Korea has also increased. Accordingly, it is necessary to explore how international student-focused counseling research has unfolded in Korea. To this end, this study provides research trend in Korea through a content analysis of 79 theses and articles published over recent two decades (1996-2016). Over 140 research contents are classified into 10 categories, including cultural adjustment, psychological health, and career and vocation as the main three categories. Frequency of conceptions or terms in each category, and relationship between those conceptions are analyzed. Based on the content analysis, a discourse map is finally drawn. Also, future research agendas are suggested.

Nonlinear Analysis in Counseling Research

ABSTRACTNonlinear effects are both underreported and underrepresented in counseling research. We provide a rationale for evaluating nonlinear effects and steps to evaluate nonlinear relationships in counseling research. Two heuristic examples are provided along with discussion of the results and advantages to evaluating nonlinear effects.

Social Network Analysis as an Analytic Tool for Task Group Research: A Case Study of an Interdisciplinary Community of Practice

Group counselors commonly collaborate in interdisciplinary settings in health care, substance abuse, and juvenile justice. Social network analysis is a methodology rarely used in counseling research yet has potential to examine task group dynamics in new ways. This case study explores the scholarly relationships among 36 members of an interdisciplinary community of practice. Findings suggest some disciplines work together more than others and members are more likely to interact interpersonally than in knowledge production. The study also finds members who are more central to the group than others, and subgroups that may be centers of work and creativity.

The Journal of College Counseling Turns 20: Celebrating Two Decades of Advancing College Counseling Theory, Research, and Practice

This issue marks the beginning of the Journal of College Counseling's 20th volume. For 2 decades, the journal has served as a trusted resource for college counseling researchers and practitioners working with a diverse mix of college and university students at 2‐ and 4‐year institutions worldwide. Reaching this milestone is a significant accomplishment. The author looks back at the history and evolution of the journal throughout the years as a way to celebrate.

Multilevel Modeling for Research in Group Work

Researchers in group counseling often encounter complex data from individual clients who are members of a group. Clients in the same group may be more similar than clients from different groups and this can lead to violations of statistical assumptions. The complexity of the data also means that predictors and outcomes can be measured at both the client and the group level. Researcher questions may focus on variables at the client level or the group level, or the interaction of client and group level variables. In this article, we introduce multilevel modeling as a tool that can be used both to account for the complex structure of the data and to incorporate variables at both the client and group levels. A published group counseling study is used as an example.

Large-scale survey of trust and safety in coaching supervision: Some evidence that we are doing it right

Objectives:There is increasing interest in supervision across the executive and workplace coaching professions, and so it is worth exploring whether promised benefits can be demonstrated. A large-scale empirical survey was conducted into the satisfaction, trust and vulnerability of coaching supervisees. Results are compared with those that have been achieved in other areas of supervision such as occupational therapy and counselling supervision.Design:We employed a cross-sectional design focused on relatively experienced coaches, directed at large numbers so as to measure differences within the population. We inquired into satisfaction and trust in general terms, and we also asked more specifically about the most worrying, concerning or shameful episode in the coach’s practice over the last few years, whether this episode had been brought to supervision and if the ensuing supervision had been helpful.Methods:The sampling strategy was snowballing out from our own experienced coach networks, with help from European professional organisations. The web-based questionnaire was short, easy to use and entirely confidential with no requirement to leave any personal data. Five hundred and eighteen full responses were received on the questionnaire, from 356 female and 162 male coaches from 32 countries. Statistical properties of the responses were computed and two-sample t-tests and non-parametric (Mann-Whitney) U-tests were conducted to look at the influence of gender, age, experience, nationality, amount and nature (i.e. group versus individual) of supervision on satisfaction and trust scores.Results:The results show that these experienced coaches are considerably safer, more satisfied and more trusting of their supervisor than was found in comparable research in counselling and psychotherapy. Significant differences were found in the appreciation of supervision by men and women, and also with supervisee age and relative exposure to supervision.Conclusions:With this sample of relatively senior coaches it appears that highly trusting and satisfactory supervision relationships are emerging, perhaps thanks to current practice where most coaches self-select and engage supervisors out of the proceeds of their own work. Nevertheless, even in this sample there are still just under eight per cent occurrences of insufficient trust and safety around really worrying episodes. There are also demonstrable differences within the overall diversity of the profession.

Conceptual Mapping Task: An Effective Verification Tool for Qualitative Counseling Research

This article introduces the conceptual mapping task (CMT) as a semi-structured interviewing procedure that includes four distinct, in vivo member-checking features. An interview protocol is provided for novice and advanced counseling researchers who are interested in utilizing the CMT. Two case studies illustrate the versatility of this trans-theoretical tool and its potential use across the spectrum of approaches to qualitative inquiry. The CMT can be used as a strategy to (a) increase a study's trustworthiness when there are obstacles to repeated participant contact, (b) elicit rich data, and (c) add methodological rigor in counseling research. Preliminary implications for clinical supervisors and professional counselors are provided.

Sex, Sexuality, and the Disabled Black Woman

This manuscript is an overview of available clinical and anecdotal research regarding care and counseling needs at the intersections of sex, sexuality, Black women, and disability. This paper illuminates the need to address the mental and emotional aspects. Specific attention is given to what is missing in the literature including, but not limited to: ableism/disability, visibility/invisibility, eroticsm/otherism, and sexualization/asexualization. The preliminary research in medical/psychological journals, books, and sexual health information sources indicates that the war on Black bodies is historic, current, social, and medical. The indications are that there is not enough attention paid and that no therapeutic interventions have emerged that specifically addresses the needs of disabled Black women. By the end of this research paper, readers will understand the importance of developing their own knowledge base. To consider the implications of what is missing in counseling research in addressing the disabled, Black woman who is having issues surrounding sex and sexuality.

An Intervention Using LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® on Fostering Narrative Identity Among Economically Disadvantaged College Students in Taiwan

The effectiveness of an intervention using LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® (LSP), a reflective tool using LEGO® building bricks, to speed the development of narrative identity in economically disadvantaged college students was studied. A longitudinal experimental study with non equivalent experimental/control groups ( N = 45) was conducted to examine whether an 8-week LSP program could enhance narrative identity formation. Findings show that participants taking part in the program reported higher levels of narrative coherence, agency (autonomy), and communion (relationship) compared to the control group. Additionally, the LSP participants reported significantly lower anxiety and depression than did those in the control group, both at the posttest and at follow-up after 1 month. Mediation analyses show that the impact on economically disadvantaged college students’ narrative identities led to decreased anxiety and depression as well as increased well-being. Limitations of these results are discussed, and implications for counseling practice, research, and theory are offered.

The Hand of Professional School Counseling Meets the Glove of Restorative Practices

To introduce restorative practices (RP) to the school counseling literature, the authors explicate the hand in glove fit between the RP model for schools and school counselor identity and scope of practice. Drawing from the American School Counselor Association’s (ASCA) National Model, ASCA’s Ethical Standards for School Counselors, multitiered systems of support (MTSS), and the school counseling literature, the authors make the case for the profession of school counseling to take up RP and integrate the model into school counseling research, theory, and practice.

Perilaku Agresif Siswa dari Keluarga Broken Home

This research is based because of the aggressive behavior shown by the students, especially students who come from a broken home. The purpose of this study is to describe the aggressive behavior that is owned by a student who comes from a broken home in terms of attacking people physically, verbally, and damaging and destroying property and wealth of others. The results of this research shows that in general student’s aggressivebehavior are on average level. Implications of research in guidance and counseling is as the basis for programs to prevent and cope with aggressive behavior that is owned by the students, especially students who come from a broken home. Cooperation with the homeroom teacher mentors, teachers and other school personnel will also help identify students who have an aggressive behavior, especially students who come from a broken home to immediately provided services.

Perilaku Agresif Siswa dari Keluarga Broken Home

This research is based because of the aggressive behavior shown by the students, especially students who come from a broken home. The purpose of this study is to describe the aggressive behavior that is owned by a student who comes from a broken home in terms of attacking people physically, verbally, and damaging and destroying property and wealth of others. The results of this research shows that in general student’s aggressivebehavior are on average level. Implications of research in guidance and counseling is as the basis for programs to prevent and cope with aggressive behavior that is owned by the students, especially students who come from a broken home. Cooperation with the homeroom teacher mentors, teachers and other school personnel will also help identify students who have an aggressive behavior, especially students who come from a broken home to immediately provided services.

"You look like them": Drawing on Counselling Theory and Practice to Reflexively Negotiate Cultural Difference in Research Relationships.

Located within a context of intercultural counselling research, this paper highlights the pertinence of the researcher’s reflexivity and cultural awareness in relation to research relationships. It draws on an excerpt between a white European interviewer and an Asian trainee counsellor discussing the latter’s experience of intercultural counselling practice. A reflexive analysis of a short passage aims to demonstrate how explicit negotiation of cultural difference within the interview setting advanced the researcher’s understanding of the participant’s experience, which was being investigated. The interrelated challenges, but also the importance of the interviewer’s preparedness to explore power imbalances in the research relationship are also examined, as are some key limitations of such endeavours. This paper underlines the usefulness of counselling skills in qualitative research, hoping to function as an invitation for more practitioner involvement in therapeutic inquiry.

안락사와 존엄사 - 목회상담을 위한 메타윤리적 연구 -

안락사 논의의 근본적인 동기는 견디기 힘든 고통의 상황으로부터 벗어나기 위한 환자의 자율적 결단을 존중하려는 데 있다. 환자의 자율성과 고통으로부터의 해방은 우리가 인정하지 않을 수 없는 중요한 가치들이다. 고통의 제거와 환자의 자율성이 죽음을 선택하는 상황과 그 상황 속에서 의사의 의료행위에 적용될 경우 사람들의 태도는 나누어진다. 엄밀히 말하자면 환자의 결단을 놓고 정당성과 부당성을 논한다는 것 자체가 외람된 것일 수 있다. 생명의 존엄성관 관련하여 안락사를 반대한다면 우리는 또한 동일한 근거를 가지고 안락사를 찬성해야 한다. 안락사에 대한 논의가 좀처럼 합치점에 도달하지 못하는 이유는 무엇보다도 환자의 자율성과 극심한 고통이 동시에 수용되어야 할 뿐 아니라 그것들의 경계가 모호하기 때문이다. 안락사의 사례에서는 객관적 규범 대신에 환자와 의사의 주관적 판단이 결정적 역할을 하며 환자와 의사 사이의 개인적 관계가 전제된다. 안락사에 대한 일반적인 찬부양론은 너무 광범위하고 불명료하게 설정된 것이다. 기독교적 관점에서 죽음은 인간에 대한 하나님의 주권을 암시한다. 그것은 개체적이며 생물학적 현상이 아니라 인격적이며 관계적인 사건이다. 죽음을 선택하는 것과 마찬가지로 끝까지 죽음을 거부하는 것도 생명에 대한 하나님의 주권에 대립될 수 있다. 인간 생명이 하나님으로부터 부여받은 것이라면 인간은 자신의 생명에 대한 청지기이며 그것의 마감도 인간이 좌우해서는 안 될 것이다. 이러한 방법은 자의적 간접적, 수동적 안락사의 길을 열어놓는 것이다. 환자 자신의 결단으로 죽음을 수용하는 것은 어떤 의미에서는 기독교적일 수 있다. 그것은 생명에 대한 하나님의 주권을 인식하고 응답하는 것이 된다. 이제 안락사에 대한 앞으로의 논의방향은 통전적인 의미에서 “생명마감돌봄”으로 나아가야 할 것이다.

Career Counseling Research and Practice in Taiwan

This article (a) provides an overview of empirical studies regarding Western career theories applied in Taiwan, (b) discusses current career problems encountered in Taiwan, and (c) explores new perspectives for career counseling practice in Taiwan. Western career theories and important concepts are tested and modified empirically. A hypothetical life design model for increasing the meaning of life is proposed. Career counseling problems are then discussed within the educational system, special groups/adults, and employment/organizations in Taiwan. Implications for career counseling practice are discussed.

Nonlinear Analysis in Counseling Research

Nonlinear effects are both underreported and underrepresented in counseling research. We provide a rationale for evaluating nonlinear effects and steps to evaluate nonlinear relationships in counseling research. Two heuristic examples are provided along with discussion of the results and advantages to evaluating nonlinear effects.

Challenging the Uniformity Myth in Career Counseling Outcome Studies

This study aimed to challenge the “uniformity myth” in career counseling outcome studies—that is, a tendency toward studying career counseling clients as homogenous, implicitly assuming that the same outcomes would be beneficial to all clients. To this end, we examined the role of clients’ initial career counseling goals. We hypothesized that a client’s career counseling goals would affect (1) which outcomes the client is likely to attain through career counseling and (2) which outcomes he or she would most benefit from (in terms of improved well-being). Hypotheses were tested using data from a three-wave study with Flemish adult career counseling clients. We included six potential career counseling goals and corresponding outcomes: (1) increasing self-awareness, (2) increasing opportunity awareness, (3) making a career decision, (4) finding a new job, (5) improving work–family balance, and (6) improving work relationships. We found that clients were more likely to attain outcomes that matched their initial career counseling goals and less likely to attain other outcomes. In addition, goal attainment (i.e., the attainment of outcomes that match a client’s initial goals)—but not nongoal attainment (i.e., the attainment of outcomes that do not correspond to a client’s initial goals)—related to clients’ subsequent career and life satisfaction. Implications for career counseling research and practice are discussed.

Phenomenical approach to Focusing Experiential Journal for choosing Counseling research subject

Phenomenical approach to Focusing Experiential Journal for choosing Counseling research subject