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The moderating and mediating roles of mindfulness and rumination on COVID-19 stress and depression: A longitudinal study of young adults. Journal of Counseling Psychology (IF 5.088) Pub Date : 2022-06-23 Jacob Schachter,Alex A Ajayi,Phuong Linh Nguyen
The COVID-19 pandemic has not only accounted for a substantial number of deaths in the United States but also deleterious mental health outcomes. We integrated multiple lines of previous research to better understand psychological strengths and difficulties in the face of the pandemic by testing a moderated mediation model that posited that rumination mediates the relationship between COVID-related
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Mapping the journey from epistemic mistrust in depressed adolescents receiving psychotherapy. Journal of Counseling Psychology (IF 5.088) Pub Date : 2022-06-23 Elizabeth T Li,Nick Midgley,Patrick Luyten,Eva A Sprecher,Chloe Campbell
Although the theory of epistemic trust has started informing research in clinical populations and psychotherapy, no study has yet explored the phenomenon of epistemic trust and mistrust in depressed adolescents receiving psychotherapy. The present study aims to address this gap by creating a typology of depressed adolescents' experiences regarding their different journeys through the course of psychotherapy
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Email me back: Examining provider biases through email return and responsiveness. Journal of Counseling Psychology (IF 5.088) Pub Date : 2022-06-09 Wei-Chin Hwang,Ken A Fujimoto
The majority of research on accessing and utilizing mental health services has focused on patient barriers to care. Few studies have explored possible provider biases that may impact client access at point of entry. Using the audit method, we conducted an email-based field experiment to investigate the responsiveness of psychotherapy providers to inquiries from simulated patients with different backgrounds
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Body positivity for Asian Americans: Development and evaluation of the pride in Asian American Appearance Scale. Journal of Counseling Psychology (IF 5.088) Pub Date : 2022-05-26 Thomas P Le,Derek K Iwamoto,Zachary A Soulliard
While a growing body of literature has examined factors that contribute to Asian Americans' negative body image, little research has investigated Asian Americans' body image from a strengths-based perspective. This study thus presents the Pride in Asian American Appearance Scale (PAAAS), which was designed to measure the extent to which Asian Americans feel positively about their own racialized physical
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Ignoring race and denying racism: A meta-analysis of the associations between colorblind racial ideology, anti-Blackness, and other variables antithetical to racial justice. Journal of Counseling Psychology (IF 5.088) Pub Date : 2022-05-23 Jacqueline Yi,Helen A Neville,Nathan R Todd,Yara Mekawi
One critical role counseling psychologists can play in dismantling anti-Blackness and eradicating systemic racism is to build on the field's strength in understanding individual-level processes (i.e., systems are created and maintained by individual actors). Drawing on antiracism scholarship, we aimed to better understand how colorblind racial ideology (CBRI), or the denial and minimization of race
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Mapping the progress of the process: Codevelopment of the therapeutic alliance with maltreated adolescents. Journal of Counseling Psychology (IF 5.088) Pub Date : 2022-05-19 Valentín Escudero,Myrna L Friedlander,Dennis M Kivlighan,Edmund Orlowski,Alberto Abascal
We used a longitudinal actor-partner interdependence model to examine the codeveloping alliance in alliance empowerment therapy (AET; Escudero, 2013), a manualized team-based approach developed in Spain specifically for child welfare-involved youth. In this first evaluation of AET, we sampled 102 adolescents, 83% of whom had been removed from their homes due to abuse or neglect, and 40% of whom were
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Idiographic and nomothetic relationships between momentary interpersonal behaviors, interpersonal complementarity, and alliance ruptures in psychotherapy. Journal of Counseling Psychology (IF 5.088) Pub Date : 2022-05-05 Xiaochen Luo,Siwei Liu,Alytia A Levendosky,Evan W Good,Joshua E Turchan,Christopher J Hopwood
In this study, we aimed to examine how moment-to-moment interpersonal behaviors of warmth and dominance in patients and therapists, as well as interpersonal complementarity, are related to withdrawal and confrontation ruptures as sessions unfold. Sixteen psychotherapy sessions from eight independent therapeutic dyads were sampled for the highest level of alliance ruptures from a naturalistic psychotherapy
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Oxytocin reactivity to the therapeutic encounter as a biomarker of change in the treatment of depression. Journal of Counseling Psychology (IF 5.088) Pub Date : 2022-04-28 Dana Atzil-Slonim,Dana Stolowicz-Melman,Eran Bar-Kalifa,Eva Gilboa-Schechtman,Adar Paz,Maya Wolff,Inbal Rotter,Orna Zagoory,Ruth Feldman
Depression affects millions worldwide, thus underscoring the urgent need to optimize health care practices. To better understand the processes involved in psychotherapy gains, studies have emphasized the need to complement subjective reports with objective measures, in particular biological markers. Oxytocin (OT) has been proposed as a potential biomarker in the treatment of depression given its involvement
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"Like a tsunami coming in fast": A critical qualitative study of precarity and resistance during the pandemic. Journal of Counseling Psychology (IF 5.088) Pub Date : 2022-04-14 David L Blustein,Camille M Smith,XiYue Wu,Paige A Guarino,Emily Joyner,Lauren Milo,Delaney C Bilodeau
This study explores the nature of precarity via the lens of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic. Precarity refers to uncertainty, loss, disruption, and anxiety, which differentially impact people across contexts. We sought to (a) identify how people understand and resist precarity during the pandemic; (b) explore the potential of precarity to serve as an organizing concept for psychological
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Underemployment and mental health: A longitudinal study. Journal of Counseling Psychology (IF 5.088) Pub Date : 2022-03-28 Blake A Allan,Taewon Kim,Brenda Shein
Research has established that certain forms of underemployment relate to poorer mental health, but no studies have examined which components of underemployment are uniquely related to mental health over time. To address this gap in the literature, we longitudinally examined how multiple subjective underemployment constructs (i.e., underpayment, status, involuntary temporary work, field, poverty-wage
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The effects of group counseling and self-affirmation on stigma and group relationship development: A replication and extension. Journal of Counseling Psychology (IF 5.088) Pub Date : 2022-03-24 Andrew J Seidman,Nathaniel G Wade,Jason Geller
The stigma of seeking counseling and negative attitudes about counseling are primary barriers to its use. In the only known study examining the utility of attending a group counseling session to ameliorate stigma (no control group), participation was associated with reductions in self-stigma (Wade et al., 2011). Self-affirmation interventions have shown promising results in reducing stigma and promoting
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The relationship of alliance, cohesion, and climate with outcome among college counseling populations. Journal of Counseling Psychology (IF 5.088) Pub Date : 2022-03-21 Rachel A Arnold,Gary M Burlingame,Joseph A Olsen
It is not yet fully understood how alliance, cohesion, and climate differentially correlate with client outcome in group therapy, especially when assessed simultaneously. This study aims to elucidate these relationships through an archival analysis of continuous Group Questionnaire (GQ) and Outcome Questionnaire-45 (OQ-45) data from 412 group therapy clients at college counseling centers, which were
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Does practice really make perfect? A longitudinal analysis of the relationship between therapist experience and therapy outcome: A replication of Goldberg, Rousmaniere, et al. (2016). Journal of Counseling Psychology (IF 5.088) Pub Date : 2022-03-10 Sylvan Germer,Vanessa Weyrich,Anne-Kathrin Bräscher,Kaline Mütze,Michael Witthöft
Experience is often regarded as a prerequisite of high performance. In the field of psychotherapy, research has yielded inconsistent results regarding the association between experience and therapy outcome. However, this research was mostly conducted cross-sectionally. A longitudinal study from the U.S. recently indicated that psychotherapists' experience was not associated with therapy outcomes. The
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Development and initial validation of the job-search self-regulation scale: Expanding the career adaptation model of job search. Journal of Counseling Psychology (IF 5.088) Pub Date : 2022-03-10 Hui Xu,Mark L Savickas
Given the pressing issues of unemployment during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic and the underrecognized role of job-search self-regulation (JSSR) in general within career construction theory (CCT), it is socially and theoretically important to expand the career adaption model of job search by examining the role of JSSR in predicting job-search outcomes. However, a psychometrically sound
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The development and psychometric evaluation of the Objectification Perpetration Scale. Journal of Counseling Psychology (IF 5.088) Pub Date : 2022-02-14 Abigail R Riemer,Gemma Sáez,Rebecca L Brock,Sarah J Gervais
While the literature has shown that sexually objectifying women leads to negative outcomes for the target and perceiver, measures of objectification perpetration are often adaptations of measures designed to assess targets' self-objectification or reported experiences of objectifying behaviors. In the present article, we introduce the Objectification Perpetration Scale (OPS) that assesses not only
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Asian American people's intragroup and intergroup collective action: Identifying key correlates. Journal of Counseling Psychology (IF 5.088) Pub Date : 2022-02-14 Staci Ouch,Bonnie Moradi
The present study advanced prior research by examining key correlates of Asian American people's intragroup and intergroup collective action. Building on prior research, this study tested a model of the unique relations of experiences of discrimination, model minority beliefs, intragroup solidarity, and intergroup solidarity with other people of color as correlates of Asian American people's intragroup
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Cultural stress, daily well-being, and internalizing and externalizing symptoms among Hispanic college students. Journal of Counseling Psychology (IF 5.088) Pub Date : 2022-02-07 Seth J Schwartz,Alan S Waterman,Cory L Cobb,Miguel Ángel Cano,Carolina Scaramutti,Alan Meca,Simon Ozer,Colleen Ward,Sofía Puente-Durán,Elma I Lorenzo-Blanco,Jennifer B Unger,Maria C Duque,Saskia R Vos,Ingrid Zeledon,Maria Fernanda Garcia,Charles R Martinez
The present study was designed to examine the extent to which, in a sample of 873 Hispanic college students, daily levels of, and variability in, well-being would mediate the predictive effects of culturally related stressors (discrimination, negative context of reception, and bicultural stress) on internalizing and externalizing symptoms 11 days later. A 12-day daily diary design was utilized, where
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The identification and validation of five types of career indecision: A latent profile analysis of career decision-making difficulties. Journal of Counseling Psychology (IF 5.088) Pub Date : 2022-01-13 Nimrod Levin,Yuliya Lipshits-Braziler,Itamar Gati
Diagnosing the causes of clients' career indecision is among the first steps in career counseling. The present study applied latent profile analysis to identify career indecision types using the 10 difficulty scale scores of the Career Decision-Making Difficulties Questionnaire (Gati et al., 1996). In two random U.S. samples (Ntotal = 8,918; age range = 14-50), five profiles of career indecision were
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The interplay between agency and therapeutic bond in predicting symptom severity in long-term psychotherapy. Journal of Counseling Psychology (IF 5.088) Pub Date : 2021-12-30 Simone Jennissen,Julia Huber,Christoph Nikendei,Henning Schauenburg,Ulrike Dinger
This study investigated the interplay between agency and therapeutic bond in predicting patient symptoms in outpatient psychotherapy. A total of N = 731 patients provided measurements of agency (Therapeutic Agency Inventory; TAI), therapeutic bond (bond subscale of Working Alliance Inventory-Short Form Revised [WAI-SR]), and symptoms (Symptom Checklist Short Form [SCL-K11]) every fifth session of long-term
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Policy attitudes toward adolescents transitioning gender. Journal of Counseling Psychology (IF 5.088) Pub Date : 2021-12-30 Kevin Silva,Cambrian M Nauman,Elliot A Tebbe,Mike C Parent
Anti-transgender policies and state legislative initiatives that focus on school bathroom use and hormone use have emerged in recent years. These policies are generally written by and voted on by cisgender people, and as such, it is crucial to understand influences on nonaffirming attitudes toward policies that can impact trans youth. The present study aimed to extend research on transphobic attitudes
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Socially prescribed perfectionism predicts next-day binge eating behaviors over 20-days. Journal of Counseling Psychology (IF 5.088) Pub Date : 2021-12-23 Kathleen E Merwin,Sean P Mackinnon,Rosin M O'Connor,Gordon L Flett
Existing research on perfectionism and binge eating suggests that socially prescribed, self-oriented, and other-oriented perfectionism (Socially Prescribed Perfectionism, SPP; Self-Oriented Perfectionism, SOP; and Other-Oriented Perfectionism, OOP) are differentially related to binge eating. However, previous studies have largely utilized cross-sectional methodology. The present study used a 20-day
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How young psychotherapists experience working with older patients. Journal of Counseling Psychology (IF 5.088) Pub Date : 2021-11-29 Annika Boschann,Uwe Krähnke,Silke Wiegand-Grefe,Eva-Marie Kessler
Preliminarily findings from experimental and survey research suggests that psychotherapy with older adults is an area of practice in which psychotherapists do not feel positive and confident. This qualitative study is the first to explore how young psychotherapists experience and perceive their therapeutic work with older patients. To do so, we provide an in-depth perspective of how young (aged 27-35)
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Walking out on hate: A qualitative investigation of how and why White supremacists quit hate groups. Journal of Counseling Psychology (IF 5.088) Pub Date : 2021-11-29 Jackson B Liguori,Lisa B Spanierman
Through in-depth, semistructured interviews with former White supremacists (N = 9), the authors explored how and why former White supremacists left their hate groups, and why some chose to then speak out against their former racist ideologies. Using interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA; Smith et al., 2009), the authors identified nine themes related to the process of leaving one's hate group
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Exploring Black adolescent males' experiences with racism and internalized racial oppression. Journal of Counseling Psychology (IF 5.088) Pub Date : 2021-11-22 Tamba-Kuii M Bailey,Christine J Yeh,Kachiside Madu
We explore Black male high school students' perceptions of racial oppression, their internalization of racial oppression, and the impact of these experiences on their academic lives. Using constructivist grounded theory, 10 semi-structured interviews were conducted with Black adolescent boys. Results identified five core categories: (a) racial socialization, (b) understandings of and experiences with
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Psychotherapy session frequency: A naturalistic examination in a university counseling center. Journal of Counseling Psychology (IF 5.088) Pub Date : 2021-11-15 David M Erekson,Russell J Bailey,Kara Cattani,Jared S Klundt,Austin M Lynn,Dallas Jensen,Brett M Merrill,Dominic Schmuck,Vaughn Worthen
With increasing demand for psychotherapy services, clinicians are carrying increasingly large caseloads (Bailey et al., 2020). As the number of new intakes exceeds the number of clinical hours available each week in some settings, psychotherapy is delivered on an attenuated schedule for returning clients (rather than the traditional weekly frequency); there is, however, little support for the efficacy
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Cultural humility, working alliance, and Outcome Rating Scale in psychodynamic psychotherapy: Between-therapist, within-therapist, and within-client effects. Journal of Counseling Psychology (IF 5.088) Pub Date : 2021-11-15 Katherine Morales Dixon,Dennis M Kivlighan,Clara E Hill,Charles J Gelso
We examined how client working alliance (CWA) and therapist working alliance (TWA), and client-rated functioning (Outcome Rating Scale, ORS) related to client-perceived Cultural Humility (CH) of their therapist across the course of open-ended psychodynamic psychotherapy for 118 clients and 17 therapists. Clients and therapists completed measures of the WA after every session and clients completed the
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Applying social cognitive career theory to the study abroad choice process. Journal of Counseling Psychology (IF 5.088) Pub Date : 2021-11-15 Ruogu J Wang,Robert W Lent
Studying abroad during college is an educational choice that has significant implications for students' career, academic, and personal development. This study adapted the social cognitive models of career choice (Lent et al., 1994) and self-management (Lent & Brown, 2013) to examine predictors of study abroad interest and choice intentions. The psychometric properties of new and revised domain-specific
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Other- (vs. self-) oriented meaning interventions enhance momentary work engagement through changes in work meaningfulness. Journal of Counseling Psychology (IF 5.088) Pub Date : 2021-11-15 Katarzyna Cantarero,Wijnand A P van Tilburg,Ewelina Smoktunowicz
We tested whether a short, online meaning intervention boosts momentary work engagement (MWE) through an increase in perceived work meaningfulness. In Study 1 (N = 227), employees who were asked to write why their work was meaningful subsequently experienced higher work meaningfulness and higher MWE compared to a control group. Work meaningfulness mediated the relationship between the intervention
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Testing the effectiveness of an SCT-based training program in enhancing health self-efficacy and outcome expectations among college peer educators. Journal of Counseling Psychology (IF 5.088) Pub Date : 2021-11-04 Abigail S Dubovi,Hung-Bin Sheu
Peer health education (PHE) is a widely implemented prevention approach among college populations. While social cognitive theory (SCT; Bandura, 2004) has been assumed to account for the underlying mechanisms of PHE, no studies have tested the utility of an SCT-based training program in improving health-related outcomes among peer educators. The present study developed, implemented, and tested the effectiveness
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The myth of the safe space: Sexual orientation disparities in therapist effectiveness. Journal of Counseling Psychology (IF 5.088) Pub Date : 2021-10-14 Joanna M Drinane,Tangela Roberts,Kate Winderman,Vanessa Frierson Freeman,Yu-Wei Wang
Psychotherapy has been shown to be effective on a broad level (e.g., Wampold & Imel, 2015); however, a growing body of literature has revealed that some therapists have outcome inequities within their caseloads. These inequities have been observed on the basis of social identities including race (see Imel et al., 2011, for example) and gender measured on the binary (Owen et al., 2009). However, despite
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Cross-cultural differences in adult attachment and depression: A culturally congruent approach. Journal of Counseling Psychology (IF 5.088) Pub Date : 2021-10-14 Chiachih D C Wang,Ling Jin,GiBaeg Han,Wenzhen Zhu,Danna Bismar
This cross-cultural study investigated a conditional indirect effect model in which country membership (South Korea or United States) and the need for approval of others (AO) were hypothesized to moderate the direct and indirect effects of attachment insecurity on depression via social self-efficacy (SSE). A total of 673 Korean university students and 401 American university students completed research
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A longitudinal analysis of reflective functioning and its association with psychotherapy outcome in patients with depressive and anxiety disorders. Journal of Counseling Psychology (IF 5.088) Pub Date : 2021-10-07 Anna Babl,Thomas Berger,Hannah Decurtins,Inke Gross,Tom Frey,Franz Caspar,Svenja Taubner
The ability to mentalize has been discussed as potential change mechanism in psychotherapy. Reflective functioning (RF) offers an empirical framework for the assessment of mentalization in therapy sessions. In the present study, we assessed RF longitudinally and examined its association with symptomatic distress, symptom severity of depression and anxiety, and interpersonal problems over the course
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The anger-depression mechanism in dynamic therapy: Experiencing previously avoided anger positively predicts reduction in depression via working alliance and insight. Journal of Counseling Psychology (IF 5.088) Pub Date : 2021-09-30 Joel M Town,Fredrik Falkenström,Allan Abbass,Chris Stride
A central tenet of psychodynamic theory of depression is the role of avoided anger. However empirical research has not yet addressed the question of for which patients and via what pathways experiencing anger in sessions can help. The therapeutic alliance and acquisition of patient insight are important change processes in dynamic therapy and may mediate the anger-depression association. This study
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Facilitating exploration in psychodynamic psychotherapy: Therapist skills and client attachment style. Journal of Counseling Psychology (IF 5.088) Pub Date : 2021-09-30 Morgan S Anvari,Vardaan Dua,Jose Lima-Rosas,Clara E Hill,Dennis M Kivlighan
We examined how much 62 adult community clients working with 26 doctoral student therapists in the 10th session of individual, open-ended, psychodynamic psychotherapy engaged in affective and cognitive-behavioral exploration preceding and following four different therapist skills (restatement, reflection of feelings, open question for thoughts, open question for feelings). Overall, therapists used
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Awareness, social cognition, and commitment: Developing a social justice orientation in psychology training programs. Journal of Counseling Psychology (IF 5.088) Pub Date : 2021-09-30 George V Gushue,Tina R Lee,Nadine Postolache,Jacqueline Yang,Jonathan Godinez,Samantha Samel,Allie Vaknin
This study investigates how the awareness of social inequities and racism may serve as a foundation for psychology trainees' social justice self-efficacy beliefs, outcome expectations, interests, and commitment. Using the social-cognitive justice developmental framework proposed by Miller et al. (2009), a total of 222 participants were recruited from accredited applied psychology programs across the
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The triadic effect: Associations among the supervisory working alliance, therapeutic working alliance, and therapy session evaluation. Journal of Counseling Psychology (IF 5.088) Pub Date : 2021-09-27 Judith A Gerstenblith,Kathryn V Kline,Clara E Hill,Dennis M Kivlighan
Several theorists (Bandura, 1969; Hackney & Goodyear, 1984; Searles, 1955) suggest parallels between the relationship in supervision and the relationship in therapy. We examined supervisor and therapist trainee ratings of supervisory working alliance (SWA) in 1 week predicting client-rated therapeutic working alliance (TWA) and client-rated therapy session evaluation (TSE) in the following week as
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The Fat Acceptance Scale: Development and initial validation. Journal of Counseling Psychology (IF 5.088) Pub Date : 2021-09-27 Colleen A Kase,Jonathan J Mohr
The fat acceptance movement arose to combat the widespread stigmatization of fatness and fat people through personal liberation and political activism. Support for the movement and its underlying ideology has grown rapidly over the past three decades; however, a self-report measure of fat acceptance with strong psychometric properties has not yet been developed. The current studies aimed to develop
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Center effects, therapist effects, and international student clients' drop out from psychotherapy. Journal of Counseling Psychology (IF 5.088) Pub Date : 2021-09-27 Theodore T Bartholomew,Krista A Robbins,Lizbeth Valdivia-Jauregui,Allison J Lockard,Andres E Pérez-Rojas,Brian TaeHyuk Keum
In 2019-2020, 1,075,496 international students pursued higher education in the United States. Many of these students endure unique experiences of psychological distress that accompanies their shared experience of studying abroad in the United States. Researchers have explored clinical experiences within this diverse group, with some suggesting that international students are at greater risk than students
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Understanding interdependence of patients' and therapists' affect experiencing: Examination at sample and individual difference levels. Journal of Counseling Psychology (IF 5.088) Pub Date : 2021-09-02 Avigail Bar-Sella,Ashley K Randall,Sigal Zilcha-Mano
The importance of interdependence processes of patients' and therapists' affect experiences (AEs) over the course of treatment has been highlighted by numerous therapeutic orientations. Yet, most studies have focused on snapshot observations and there is a dearth of knowledge regarding session-to-session patient-therapist AE interdependence, through which the dynamics of AE across treatment can be
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Perfectionistic concerns and psychological distress: The role of spontaneous emotion regulation during college students' experience with failure. Journal of Counseling Psychology (IF 5.088) Pub Date : 2021-08-26 Jennifer L Woodrum,Jeffrey H Kahn
Perfectionistic concerns are associated with various forms of distress, and research has shown that maladaptive emotion regulation mediates this relation. To our knowledge, this mediation process has not been studied in the lab when an individual experiences distress in the moment. This study was designed to determine (a) whether spontaneous emotion regulation mediates the relation between an experimentally
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Anxious attachment improves and is predicted by anxiety sensitivity in internet-based, guided self-help cognitive behavioral treatment for panic disorder. Journal of Counseling Psychology (IF 5.088) Pub Date : 2021-08-19 Dina Zalaznik,Asher Y Strauss,Asala Halaj,Isaac Fradkin,David D Ebert,Gerhard Andersson,Jonathan D Huppert
The purpose of this study was to examine whether anxious and avoidant attachment styles improve during guided internet-based cognitive behavioral treatment (ICBT) for panic disorder, and if so, to identify potential theoretically driven mechanisms related to the change. We examined changes in anxious and avoidant attachment and their time-lagged (1 week), longitudinal relationship with panic-related
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An intersectional approach to understanding LGBTQ+ people of color's access to LGBTQ+ community resilience. Journal of Counseling Psychology (IF 5.088) Pub Date : 2021-08-16 Joshua G Parmenter,Renee V Galliher,Elizabeth Wong,D Perez
Resiliency research suggests that connection to LGBTQ + communities helps mitigate the negative impacts of oppression (i.e., community resilience). However, due to various interlocking systems of oppression, those with multiple marginalized identities [i.e., LGBTQ + people of color (POC)] may not have equal access to LGBTQ + community resilience resources. Despite the growing body of literature, little
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Depression and mentalizing: A psychodynamic therapy process study. Journal of Counseling Psychology (IF 5.088) Pub Date : 2021-08-05 Kari Halstensen,Rolf Gjestad,Patrick Luyten,Bruce Wampold,Pehr Granqvist,Gry Stålsett,Sverre U Johnson
The present study aimed to explore the relationship between changes in depressive symptoms and the capacity to mentalize over the course of a 3-month inpatient psychodynamic therapy in a sample of 56 patients with depression. Depressive symptoms and mentalizing were assessed weekly during treatment and at 1-year follow-up with the Beck Depression Inventory and the Reflective Functioning Questionnaire
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Testimonios in the mouth of the dragon: A call for Black liberation in psychology. Journal of Counseling Psychology (IF 5.088) Pub Date : 2021-07-29 Daniela G Domínguez,Monica Noriega
U.S. society has witnessed and experienced the impact and suffering caused by the racial pandemic within the COVID-19 viral pandemic. In response to anti-Blackness, a multigenerational and multiracial movement of people is rising and demanding justice for Black lives. Using testimonio research and Liberation Psychology as a theoretical framework, the authors describe their current understanding of
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Evaluating psychotherapist competence: Testing the generalizability of clinical competence assessments of graduate trainees. Journal of Counseling Psychology (IF 5.088) Pub Date : 2021-07-29 Molly Kring,Jessica K Cozart,Morgan T Sinnard,Alayna Oby,Emily H Hamm,Nickolas D Frost,William T Hoyt
Health service psychology (HSP) graduate programs are shifting from knowledge- to competency-based assessments of trainees' psychotherapy skills. This study used Generalizability Theory to test the dependability of psychotherapy competence assessments based on video observation of trainees. A 10-item rating form was developed from a collection of forms used by graduate programs (n = 102) in counseling
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Therapist initial attachment style, changes in attachment style during training, and client outcome in psychodynamic psychotherapy. Journal of Counseling Psychology (IF 5.088) Pub Date : 2021-07-22 Yun Lu,Dennis M Kivlighan,Clara E Hill,Charles J Gelso
This study extended the cross-sectional therapist attachment literature by examining longitudinal changes of therapist attachment avoidance and anxiety in relation to client treatment outcome. Data consisted of 942 Outcome Questionnaire-45 assessments (Lambert et al., 1996, 2004) of 213 clients working with 30 therapists from a university clinic that provided psychodynamically/interpersonally oriented
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Ceiling effects indicate a possible threshold structure for working alliance. Journal of Counseling Psychology (IF 5.088) Pub Date : 2021-07-22 Scott T Meier,Thomas H Feeley
This review investigated whether ceiling effects on client-reported working alliance measures represent measurement artifacts or valid information related to the formation of the working alliance. Using data from two previously published meta-analyses, a total of 92 estimates of ceiling effects were calculated based on 37 studies with 6,439 participants. Analyses examined the size of ceiling effects
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Family therapy for maltreated youth: Can a strengthening therapeutic alliance empower change? Journal of Counseling Psychology (IF 5.088) Pub Date : 2021-07-22 Valentín Escudero,Myrna L Friedlander,Dennis M Kivlighan,Alberto Abascal,Edmund Orlowski
We tested the process of change in Alliance Empowerment Family Therapy (AEFT; Escudero, 2013), a systemic, team-based approach for treating child welfare involved families. Since building and balancing strong personal and within-family therapeutic alliances are crucial for motivating and sustaining change in these multistressed, overburdened families, we assessed alliance perceptions over time in relation
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Second-generation Asian American women's gendered racial socialization. Journal of Counseling Psychology (IF 5.088) Pub Date : 2021-07-05 Lydia HaRim Ahn,Brian TaeHyuk Keum,Gintare M Meizys,Adil Choudry,Michelle A Gomes,Lei Wang
Utilizing an intersectional framework (Crenshaw, 1989) and socioecological theory (Bronfenbrenner, 1979), we investigated the gendered racialized messages Asian American women receive growing up, otherwise known as gendered racial socialization, from their family, peers, and mass media. Consensual Qualitative Research was used to analyze interview data from 12 second-generation Asian American women
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Therapist and counseling center effects on international students' counseling outcome: A mixed methods study. Journal of Counseling Psychology (IF 5.088) Pub Date : 2021-07-05 Brian TaeHyuk Keum,Theodore T Bartholomew,Krista A Robbins,Andres E Pérez-Rojas,Allison J Lockard,Dennis M Kivlighan,Ellice Kang,Eileen E Joy,Sergio Maldonado Aguiñiga
We employed a convergent mixed methods design to examine therapist and counseling center effects on international student clients' (ISCs) counseling outcomes. Using the Center for Collegiate Mental Health (CCMH) data set (2015-2017), we conducted a three-level hierarchical linear model with clients (N = 85,110) nested in therapists (N = 1,267), and therapists nested in counseling centers (N = 111)
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The stench of bathroom bills and anti-transgender legislation: Anxiety and depression among transgender, nonbinary, and cisgender LGBQ people during a state referendum. Journal of Counseling Psychology (IF 5.088) Pub Date : 2021-07-01 Sharon G Horne,Mallaigh McGinley,Nedim Yel,Meredith R Maroney
Informed by structural stigma theory, this article presents the results of two studies that explored mental health experiences of transgender, nonbinary, and gender-diverse (TNG) individuals and cisgender lesbian, gay, bisexual, and queer (LGBQ) individuals (N = 523) prior to and following a state referendum to remove gender-based protections. In the Preelection Study, a path model explored relationships
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Trajectories of change in chronic depression: Differences in self-criticism and somatic symptoms between users of antidepressants and nonmedicated patients. Journal of Counseling Psychology (IF 5.088) Pub Date : 2021-07-01 Andreas Høstmælingen,Pål Ulvenes,Helene Amundsen Nissen-Lie,Mikkel Eielsen,Bruce E Wampold
OBJECTIVE Depression is typically seen as composed of several factors (i.e., cognitive, affective, somatic) which may be targeted by different interventions (i.e., pharmacotherapy, psychotherapy, or combination treatment). Successfully targeting these factors may contribute to improved treatment response in depression. A previous study identified two subfactors on Beck Depression Inventory-II (BDI-II)
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The evolution of patients' concept of the alliance and its relation to outcome: A dynamic latent-class structural equation modeling approach. Journal of Counseling Psychology (IF 5.088) Pub Date : 2021-07-01 Christoph Flückiger,Adam O Horvath,Holger Brandt
The working alliance (WA) has been widely identified as the key concept for psychotherapy and allied health care services. The WA, measured at different phases of diverse kinds of therapies, has been shown to robustly predict posttreatment outcomes. But the way the clients' conceptualization of the alliance evolves overtime, and the relation between this kind of conceptual change and subsequent symptom
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Hidden in plain sight: Working class and low-income atheists. Journal of Counseling Psychology (IF 5.088) Pub Date : 2021-07-01 Dena M Abbott,Debra Mollen,Jessica A Boyles,Elyxcus J Anaya
The current study sought to qualitatively examine the role of social class in the development of atheist identity, the experience of atheism-related minority stress, and relationships between atheists. Using a critical phenomenological design, we captured the experiences of 15 working-class and the low-income U.S. American atheists and identified five themes: Early Doubts and Establishment of Atheist
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Devalued, overdisciplined, and stereotyped: An exploration of gendered racial microaggressions among Black adolescent girls. Journal of Counseling Psychology (IF 5.088) Pub Date : 2021-07-01 Cecile A Gadson,Jioni A Lewis
There is a burgeoning body of research on gendered racial microaggressions, which are subtle and everyday slights and insults based on the intersection of racism and sexism. However, much of the existing research has focused on Black adult women and less is known about the experiences of Black adolescent girls. The purpose of this study was to utilize a Black feminist and intersectionality framework
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The compounded effects of classism and racism on mental health outcomes for African Americans. Journal of Counseling Psychology (IF 5.088) Pub Date : 2021-07-01 Klaus E Cavalhieri,Melanie M Wilcox
Much research exists demonstrating that experiences of racism are detrimental to the mental health of African Americans; however, Lewis and Van Dyke (2018) argued that examining the effects of racism alone neglects the intragroup diversity (and thus intersectional oppression) of African Americans. Thus, and given the economic oppression experienced by African Americans, the present study sought to
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Career decision-making in unemployed Portuguese adults: Test of the social cognitive model of career self-management. Journal of Counseling Psychology (IF 5.088) Pub Date : 2021-07-01 Robert W Lent,Maria do Céu Taveira,Joana Soares,Cátia Marques,Bárbara Cardoso,Íris Oliveira
Most research applications of the social cognitive model of career self-management (CSM; Lent & Brown, 2013) to career exploration and decision-making have involved U.S. college students. To extend research on the model, we tested its fit to the data in a sample of 345 unemployed adult workers in Portugal. Participants completed measures of career decision self-efficacy, outcome expectations, social
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Changes in client attachment in relation to client distress: A response surface analysis. Journal of Counseling Psychology (IF 5.088) Pub Date : 2021-07-01 Mira An,Justin W Hillman,Dennis M Kivlighan,Clara E Hill
Using multilevel polynomial regression and response surface analysis, we studied the association between Time 1 (T) and Time 2 (T + 1) attachment anxiety and attachment avoidance, and T + 1 psychological distress in 253 nine-session time periods for 65 adult community clients working with 13 doctoral student therapists in open-ended psychodynamic psychotherapy. Results indicated that when client attachment
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Working alliance, therapist expressive skills, and client outcome in psychodynamic therapy. Journal of Counseling Psychology (IF 5.088) Pub Date : 2021-06-28 Lydia HaRim Ahn,Dennis M Kivlighan
Bordin's (1979) theory suggests that therapist techniques that call for client introspection and self-observation will be more effective when the working alliance (WA) is stronger. Psychodynamic therapists use expressive techniques to elicit this introspection and self-observation. We examined whether therapists' use of expressive skills (e.g., encouraging expression of thoughts and feelings; helping
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Patients' individual differences in implicit and explicit expectations from the therapist as a function of attachment orientation. Journal of Counseling Psychology (IF 5.088) Pub Date : 2021-06-28 Sigal Zilcha-Mano,Tohar Dolev-Amit,Hadar Fisher,Tsachi Ein-Dor,Bernhard Strauß
Patients' attachment orientation was found to be an important predictor of the process and outcome of psychotherapy. The present study is the first to examine whether patients' attachment orientation toward significant others predicts their implicit and explicit expectations from the therapist, and whether this effect is moderated by the extent to which the therapist has become an attachment figure