Group counseling helps to advance self understanding and awareness which may combat repressive tendencies. Teaching coping skills in a group setting can help participants to develop needed tools and stimulate psychological growth (Lambie & Sias, Continue Reading...
Career Counseling -- Systems Theory The Case of Alex: Applying Systems Theory The work and personal life challenges that Alex is facing can be explained through various lenses; however, in this particular case, systems theory as applied in the mult Continue Reading...
School Counseling - Singapore School Counseling in Singapore In the article entitled, "Training school counselors in Singapore: first impressions of a multicultural challenge," authors Rivera et. al. explored the history and current situation of sc Continue Reading...
Mentoring Multicultural Approach to Adult Mentoring Disadvantaged adults take place in the community and need special attention to enhance their life. The disadvantaged adult population mostly comes from various cultural background; many of them al Continue Reading...
other values Moral character, that is, having courage, being persistent, dismissing distractions and so on in pursuit of the goal. These are attempts to define ethics by describing actions, and fairly specific constellations of actions at that. Fr Continue Reading...
Law vs. Ethics in Counseling Ethical standards are often drafted by professional groups or associations with the main objective of guiding the conduct of the members of such associations. Ethical standards not only help to guide the behavior of memb Continue Reading...
Psychotherapy Theories and Practice of Counseling and Psychotherapy The cognitive behavioral and person-centered approaches regarding counseling and psychotherapy come from a much different developmental history and theoretical underpinnings. Cogni Continue Reading...
Group Psychology: Theoretical Approaches to Group Counseling Case Vignette 2: Phil, the Japanese-American Phil, a Japanese-American expresses his discomfort and anxiety during the second meeting of his group. A keen listener, he is having difficult Continue Reading...
Student Development Plan (SDP) OutcomesThe School of Counseling identifies ten (10) Key Professional Dispositions that students most suitable for the profession consistently demonstrate (Bogo et al., 2007): Engagement, Accountability, Relationships, Continue Reading...
Another important part of the article that affects the career development process is assessment tools. A major portion of career development depends on the assessment tools and tests the counselor uses to assess their clients. A thorough knowledge Continue Reading...
Integrative Approach to Counseling The theories that the author will compare and contrast within this document include gestalt theory, choice theory and its practical application, reality therapy, and psychoanalytic therapy. There are definite poin Continue Reading...
Vignette Jasmin is a 21-year-old Asian woman who immigrated to the United States 10 years ago. She is an intelligent college student and she likes to study, although she has been diagnosed with ADHD and dyslexia. She lives together with her parents, Continue Reading...
Engagement Strategy for FaithIntroductionThe essence of effective counseling is not in trying to totally understand right from the start the clients storybut rather in communicating genuine empathy and compassion so that the client feels comfortable Continue Reading...
support group for women who have been incarcerated in relation to the necessary steps in this process. The discussion begins by providing an overview of the significance of support groups in dealing with various issues affecting groups or population Continue Reading...
Licensed professional counselors are individuals who are certified to provide a high level of quality health as well as substance abuse care to hundreds and possibly millions of Americans (American Counseling Association, 2012; 2006). These individua Continue Reading...
Racism and Various Forms How does an understanding of racism in its various forms inform the counseling professional practice? Racism is regarded as the negative feelings exercised by one ethnic group towards other individuals belonging form a diff Continue Reading...
Psychological activities within certain cultures are sometimes abhorred and sometimes revered. As a prospective psychologist it will be interesting to learn which cultures are the toughest to integrate within, and which cultures are the easiest. It's Continue Reading...
In order to be ethically sound it must be client-centred. If a counselor enters into the therapeutic relationship with stress that s/he is not willing to address according to their own techniques, then even with the best of intentions toward the cl Continue Reading...
Gushue, Clarke, Pantzer, et al., (2006) examine the application of social cognitive theories to career counseling, reporting that self-efficacy is a pertinent issue in this process. In particular, these authors report that: Career decision making Continue Reading...
Cultural Counselor Being a counselor can sometimes be a really tough job. Counseling can only be effective and beneficial when the counselor places himself or herself in the shoes of his or her client. If he or she is unable to do so, he or she will Continue Reading...
The entire aim of the article is to challenge the basic assumptions of intervention strategies, including standard interview techniques, and examining the alternative roles that a counselor can play outside of the traditional mental health professio Continue Reading...
White Privilege Social injustice encompasses all evils, which may include discrimination, gender bias, racial profiling, and many others. Social injustice, which comes in many forms, is a global problem (Stewart et al., 2012). Based on discriminatio Continue Reading...
Recruiting Methods on Cultural Diversity The Effects of Recruiting Methods on Cultural Diversity Maintaining cultural diversity in an organization can lead to innovation and an increased competitive advantage in the marketplace. In the past, the te Continue Reading...
Social Advocacy in Counseling Social advocacy has been described by some counseling theorists as a "fifth force" paradigm that should be considered to rival if not replace other major counseling psychology paradigms regarding behavior and mental ill Continue Reading...
Mental health counseling is a field that focuses on helping people to achieve mental and emotional wellness. The treatment plan will typically consist of seeing clients continuously throughout the year. Specific areas of specialization exist in menta Continue Reading...
Support Group ExperienceAbstractGroup support therapy is a type of psychotherapy that involves at least one therapist working with many persons. The type of therapy is adopted in various places, including hospitals, private therapeutic practices, com Continue Reading...
Also, despite what the counselors themselves think or feel, more emphasis on multicultural training, from the perspectives of the specific cultures themselves, needs to be undertaken. Implications for career counselors. Career counselors need to u Continue Reading...
Racial Identity Complexities and Potential in Cross-Cultural Counseling In 1897 the French sociologist Emile Durkheim wrote about the influence of culture on suicide rates among different groups. He found that while suicide seems to be the most pri Continue Reading...
Ethical Issues in Family and Marital Therapy It has been mentioned that insufficiencies of the APA ethical standards for marriage and family therapy have not been appreciated fully. Guidelines that are in regards to the therapist accountability, con Continue Reading...
Her cancer and disfigurement distinguish the subject as being in a specific cultural group due for counseling, with many of the strategies used to engage her centering the culture of sickness and its attendant modes of recovery, rehabilitation and r Continue Reading...
Psychology of Multiculturalism: Identity, Gender, And the Recognition of Minority Rights This paper looks at the issue of multiculturalism, its development, its use by society and the ways in which the field of psychology have reacted towards, and Continue Reading...
Cross Cultural Theories Based on Bend it Like BECKHAM CROSS CULTURAL THEORIES BASED ON BEND IT LIKE BECKHAM Cross cultural theories based on bend it like Beckham Movies are one way in which different issues such as social and cultural backgrounds Continue Reading...
The counselor will then need to help Judy understand the process of assimilation into American culture, so she can decide whether this is right for her or not. By visiting a counselor with her partner, she would demonstrate appropriate cultural loy Continue Reading...
Write a summary of this interview. Do not submit a transcript of the interview. 5. Using the information from your reading, this interview and any journal articles that you find, discuss the impact that public policies have on the roles and respons Continue Reading...
Stresses associated with migration itself, discrimination against racial minorities in this country, poverty, unemployment, and crowded living conditions heighten the chance that a husband will become abusive" (p. 1402). From the Vietnamese-American Continue Reading...
