Journal of Counseling and Development articles from January 2009

Journal of Counseling and Development archives from January 2009

School counseling in the 21st century: where lies the future? Introduction to the special section.(Special Section)(Editorial)
January 1, 2009... In a span of merely 10 years, the school counseling profession has reinvented itself. Since the late 1990s, school counseling has progressed from the tradition of a responsive services focus to a proactive and programmatic system that is...

School counselor inclusion: a collaborative model to provide academic and social-emotional support in the classroom setting.
January 1, 2009... As counselors go through the 1st decade of the 21st century, it is clear that U.S. society and schools continue to evolve and change at a rapid pace. The United States' increasingly diverse student bodies throughout the country reflect a myriad...

School counselor accountability: the path to social justice and systemic change.
January 1, 2009... Demographic shifts in our nation's population mandate that we attend specifically to students 'achievement, if as a nation, we expect to maintain our standard of living, our level of prosperity, and our place in the global economy. Simply put,...

Faces of the future: school counselors as cultural mediators.
January 1, 2009... "The future, as a concept of time, can be viewed as taking place anytime from this instant into infinity" (Hays & Johnson, 1984, p. 208). This statement from early counseling futurists is so fundamental, school counselors may often overlook the...

Contemporary fears of children and adolescents: coping and resiliency in the 21st century.(Survey)
January 1, 2009... With more than a century of research, fears are well documented. Hall (1897) reported such fears as thunderstorms, darkness, death, animals, disease, and ghosts. Nearly 40 years later, Jersild and Holmes (1935b) classified fears as follows: (a)...

Predictors of early termination in a university counseling training clinic.(Research)(Report)
January 1, 2009... Premature or early termination of psychotherapy and counseling is a common and significant problem in clinical practice. Published estimates of dropout rates range between 30% and 60% of clients (Reis & Brown, 1999). In a meta-analysis of early...

Education, ethnic identity, and acculturation as predictors of self-esteem in Latino adolescents.(Report)
January 1, 2009... Ethnic diversity has dramatically increased in the United States over the last several decades. From 1980 to 1992, the Latino population rose from 6.5% to 9.5% and the African American population increased from 11.5% to 11.9% (McLoyd, 1998). By...

An empirical exploration of the occupational satisfaction of counselor educators: the influence of gender, tenure status, and minority status.(Report)
January 1, 2009... Research on stress in the last 2 decades has identified a range of consequences that negatively affect individual wellness (Osipow & Spokane, 1984; Walker & Brokaw, 2001). The negative effects of stress include anxiety (Witmer & Rich, 1991),...

The relationships between Mexican American acculturation, cultural values, gender, and help-seeking intentions.(Report)
January 1, 2009... Census predictions indicate that by 2020 Latinos/as will constitute 15% of the U.S. population (U.S. Census Bureau, 2000). As of the 2000 Census, Latinos/as represented approximately 12.5% of the U.S. population, moving them ahead of African...

Identifying substance abuse issues in high schools: a national survey of high school counselors.(Report)
January 1, 2009... High school students across the nation consistently report the use of substances as evidenced by data collected from the annual Monitoring the Future study (Johnston, O'Malley, & Bachman, 2003). Alcohol is the most commonly used drug among high...

The monsters in my head posttraumatic stress disorder and the child survivor of sexual abuse.(Qualitative Research)(Clinical report)
January 1, 2009... A child awakens in the middle of the night, the nightmare still fresh in her mind of "him" on top of her. Her breath comes in short, quick gasps as she struggles to determine whether what she has just experienced was real or only a dream. She...

Motherhood in the 21st century: implications for counselors.(Practice & Theory)
January 1, 2009... In the past month, how many female clients have you seen who were struggling to be great mothers and have a career or job while providing for the emotional stability of their families while also balancing their children's social calendars with...

Chaos theory as a model for life transitions counseling nonlinear dynamics and life's changes.
January 1, 2009... It has been said that "life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans" (Lennon, 1980). This familiar statement by John Lennon reminds individuals that, despite their best efforts at planning, their lives unfold in sometimes...

Diffusion of innovation theory: a bridge for the research-practice gap in counseling.
January 1, 2009... Getting a new idea adopted, even when it has obvious advantages, is difficult. --Everett M. Rogers (2003, p. 1) Counseling researchers face the challenge of translating their findings into meaningful strategies for practice. Scholars...

The ACA Code of Ethics: articulating counseling's professional covenant.(American Counseling Association)
January 1, 2009... In the mid-1970s, there was a local tavern located in a small town in New Jersey. Long and narrow, a favorite stop on the way home from work for many of the men of the town, it was indeed a place "where everybody knew your name." What made this...

Counseling in the Republica Bolivariana de Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela).(Trends)
January 1, 2009... Counseling is seen in Latin America as the coming together of people to help one another through empathic support, a nourishing spirit, empowering solidarity, and a sharing of wisdom. This consilium (Latin etymological word for counseling...

Book review of Counseling Children and Adolescents Through Grief and Loss.(Book review)
January 1, 2009... * Counseling Children and Adolescents Through Grief and Loss by Jody J. Fiorini & Jodi Ann Mullen, 2006, Champaign, IL: Research Press, 244 pages, $26.95, ISBN 978-0878225538. Although a number of books have been published on childhood...