Journal of Counseling &Development, EarlyView ..read more

Journal of Counseling &Development, EarlyView ..read more

Journal of Counseling &Development, EarlyView ..read more

Journal of Counseling &Development, EarlyView ..read more

Abstract School counselors serve as frontline mental health professionals in schools. Although school counselors have a meaningful impact on students and the school climate, burnout negatively impacts school counselors’ self-efficacy. Hope may serve as a protective resource for school counselors’ self-efficacy. We conducted a sequential regression among 102 school counselors to determine if burnout and hope predicted their self-efficacy. While burnout predicted school counselors’ self-efficacy, hope contained the largest single explanative influence on self-efficacy scores. In this study, we p ..read more

Abstract Clinical work with challenging, difficult, or dislikable clients can elicit negative experiences for professional counselors. Using quantitative content analysis methodology embedded in a cross-sectional, correlational design, we examined the prevalence of challenging client presentations and their influence on latent counselor interpersonal stress profiles using a large sample (n = 1356). Challenging client presentations associated with client expectations and progress, therapy-interfering behaviors, client traits and behaviors, and counselor concerns and experiences predic ..read more

Abstract This quantitative study explored the relationship between counselor burnout (Counselor Burnout Inventory, CBI), life balance (Life Balance Inventory, LBI), and self-compassion (Self-Compassion Scale, SCS) among 331 fully licensed and provisionally licensed counselors throughout the United States with at least 2 years of experience in various clinical settings and providing direct clinical services. Results of two canonical correlation analyses (CCAs) explored the relationship between (a) the subscales of the LBI and the CBI and (b) the subscales of the SCS and the CBI. Both CCAs indic ..read more

Abstract Centering is a contemplative practice derived from centering prayer. In the context of counseling, our study explores centering as an intervention to enhance counselors’ empathy. Additionally, we investigate the moderating influence of nonduality, particularly bliss, on the changes in empathy over time. Through a randomized controlled trial involving counseling graduate students across the United States, we measured empathy and nonduality. Following a 4-week centering meditation treatment, the initial growth curve model revealed a statistically significant and sustained increase in em ..read more

Journal of Counseling &Development, Volume 102, Issue 3, Page 251-252, July 2024 ..read more

Abstract The American School Counseling Association has continuously defined school counselors as having a role in the classroom across four different iterations of the ASCA Model. And yet, the amount of scholarly production is limited along with the amount of time school counselors report actually spending time in the classroom with students. Further, the social-emotional learning (SEL) movement, among others, has encouraged the utilization of teachers in classrooms to provide lessons and interventions related to the social-emotional development of students rather than school counselors who h ..read more