Journal of Counseling and Development articles from June 2009

Journal of Counseling and Development archives from June 2009

Starfish, salmon, and whales: an introduction to the special section.(Special Section: Advocacy Competence)(Viewpoint essay)
June 22, 2009... In the summer of 2001, when I was newly in my role as the president of the American Counseling Association (ACA), Judy Lewis, then immediate past president of ACA, and I had an informal lobby meeting with several people during a conference....

Promoting systemic change through the ACA Advocacy Competencies.(Special Section: Advocacy Competence)(American Counseling Association)(Report)
June 22, 2009... Counselors have always been change agents and advocates (Kiselica & Robinson, 2001; Lewis & Bradley, 2000; Toporek, Gerstein, Found, Roysircar, & Israel, 2006). They have recognized that their clients and students often needed more than what...

ACA Advocacy Competencies: social justice advocacy at the client/student level.(Special Section: Advocacy Competence)(American Counseling Association)(Report)
June 22, 2009... There is a growing movement calling on counselors to implement social justice advocacy strategies and interventions into counseling practices (Kiselica & Robinson, 2001; Ratts, D'Andrea, & Arredondo, 2004; Toporek, Gerstein, Fouad, Roysircar, &...

Social justice advocacy: community collaboration and systems advocacy.(Special Section: Advocacy Competence)(Report)
June 22, 2009... This article addresses the community collaboration and systems advocacy domains articulated by the American Counseling Association (ACA)Task Force on Advocacy Competencies (Lewis, Arnold, House, & Toporek, 2002). These domains involve the...

Counselor advocacy: affecting systemic change in the public arena.(Special Section: Advocacy Competence)(Case study)
June 22, 2009... Deamonte was a 12-year-old student in a public school system in the Washington, DC, metropolitan area. One day he got a toothache. Deamonte's mother, who was a wage-reliant worker, had no health insurance, and the family's Medicaid coverage had...

The big picture of advocacy: counselor, heal society and thyself.(Special Section: Advocacy Competence)(Report)
June 22, 2009... This article explores how counselors can be a part of the growing movement for social justice advocacy in counseling. Lately, counselors have come to realize how important counseling skills, interventions, insights, and the counseling...

Disproportionate diagnosis of mental disorders among African American versus European American clients: implications for counseling theory, research, and practice.(Research)(Report)
June 22, 2009... Racial/ethnic differences in the mental health treatment of clients have received increasing attention during the past decade (Harley & Dillard, 2005). The Surgeon General's recent report on mental health in the United States noted that the...

The adolescent mattering experience gender variations in perceived mattering, anxiety, and depression.(Research)(Report)
June 22, 2009... Adolescence, defined as the period between childhood and adulthood (i.e., ages 10-19 years in the United States), is marked by dramatic developmental changes in physical, cognitive, and social-emotional capacities (Erikson, 1963). It is well...

Counselor bilingual ability, counselor ethnicity, acculturation, and Mexican Americans' perceived counselor credibility.(Research)(Report)
June 22, 2009... For more than 2 decades, a group of mental health providers (Falicov, 1998; Javier, 1989) and researchers (Martinez & Mendoza, 1984; Ponterotto, 1987; Santiago-Rivera, Arredondo, & Gallardo-Cooper, 2002; Sciarra & Ponterotto, 1991) have focused...

Bystanders' reactions to witnessing repetitive abuse experiences.(Research)(Report)
June 22, 2009... Concern over different forms of interpersonal violence in schools remains an increasing concern for millions of students, parents, educators, and communities not just in the United States, but worldwide (Carney, Hazler, & Higgins, 2002; Cole,...

Breast cancer survivors coping with lymphedema: what all counselors need to know.(Research)(Report)
June 22, 2009... I tried to talk with my counselor about the problems I was having with my lymphedema after my breast cancer surgery.... Although she knew quite a lot about breast cancer, she knew nothing about lymphedema and the stress I was under, and how...

Love, loss, and learning: the experiences of fathers who have children diagnosed with schizophrenia.(Research)(Report)
June 22, 2009... The onset of schizophrenia in the family has been described as "a disaster in which all are victims of the event and its sequelae" (Terkelsen, 1987, p. 128). Early signs of the illness often occur during late adolescence or early adulthood when...

An integrative psychological developmental model of supervision for professional school counselors-in-training.(Practice & Theory)(Report)
June 22, 2009... Professional school counselors (PSCs) practice in complex environments, often in isolation and without clinical supervision (Herlihy, Gray, & McCollum, 2002). Furthermore, PSCs have increasingly large caseloads, with a current national average...

Rogers redux: relevance and outcomes of motivational interviewing across behavioral problems.(Practice & Theory)(Report)
June 22, 2009... Approximately 20 years ago, motivational interviewing (MI) was developed by William Miller as an approach to treat problem drinking that was markedly different from the traditional confrontational styles of addictions counseling (Miller, 1983)....

Developmental science and counseling.(Practice & Theory)(Report)
June 22, 2009... Developmental science is increasingly used as a foundation for counseling theory and practice. The need to build a more evidenced-based perspective to inform practice and a desire to expand counseling theory are often given as the rationale for...

Counseling clients with chronic pain: a religiously oriented cognitive behavior framework.(Practice & Theory)(Report)
June 22, 2009... Each year, 50 million Americans are affected by chronic pain, resulting in annual health care and economic costs of more than $100 billion (American Chronic Pain Association, n.d.). Physically, these individuals face functional limitations,...