Abstract Corrective feedback can be a difficult endeavor in supervision. This article focuses on the following six principles of humanistic education that can facilitate corrective feedback: a nonthreatening environment, affective bias, self-evaluation, connectedness, self-determination, and personal growth orientation. These principles offer a framework for providing culturally sensitive supervision and corrective feedback. Implications for counseling supervision are included ..read more

Abstract The study aimed to evaluate a logotherapeutic program for its potential to improve mental well-being in the elderly. Group logotherapy programs comprising eight sessions were provided to 44 older adults. Participants completed baseline, postintervention, and follow-up questionnaires assessing mental well-being, self-esteem, life satisfaction, meaning in life, and psychological distress. The logotherapeutic program did not affect outcome measures when analyzed for the total sample. Separate analyses by participants scoring below or above the respective thresholds at baseline revealed i ..read more

The Journal of Humanistic Counseling, Volume 62, Issue 3, Page 161-161, October 2023 ..read more

Abstract This study combined asset (i.e., strength) assessment, measured by the Search Institute's Asset Checklist, and humanistic counseling approaches to measure effects on self-reported assets in two similar vulnerable adolescent populations in therapeutic residential treatment centers located in the rural Rocky Mountain West. Results indicated that seven of eight asset categories increased from baseline to follow-up assessment, with four of those categories having statistically significant increases. Total Asset scores also indicated substantial overall asset building during treatment. Sug ..read more

Abstract Classical humanistic philosophy and psychology both infer the persistence of a stable, authentic, and volitional self, which neither fully coheres with the values implicit to professional counseling nor offers sufficient relevance to culturally diverse client groups. As an alternative, the authors suggest that humanistic counseling can emerge as a distinct discipline of practice independent of its early influences. Further, the authors offer a dialogical alternative for humanistic counseling practice that might better support contemporary clients and their various social determinants ..read more

Abstract We surveyed a national sample of helping professionals (N = 382) in ascertaining attitudes toward, behaviors related to, and needs for addressing climate change as part of counseling. Two factors of EcoWellness and a helping professional's personal commitment to climate change contributed to a professional commitment to addressing climate change in counseling ..read more

Abstract Three counseling histories—career counseling, social justice, and humanistic counseling—taken together, offer a framework for conceptualization and training that aligns in a holistic way with the profession's values. These foundations comprise a unique professional identity, which can allow counselors to adequately address complex client needs ..read more

Abstract Motivational interviewing (MI) is a brief, evidence-based counseling style that helps people make positive behavior changes. Scholars have advocated for MI's use by school counselors (SCs), and research lends evidence to MI's effectiveness in schools. However, there are little data focused on how SCs are trained to utilize MI. Researchers investigated MI training in school counseling graduate programs from the perspective of SCs and counselor educators (CEs). The article presents two qualitative studies that discussed the importance of MI training in graduate programs. Researchers ide ..read more

The Journal of Humanistic Counseling, Volume 62, Issue 2, Page 57-57, July 2023 ..read more

Abstract The serious leisure perspective (SLP) aligns with humanistic counseling principles. A most significant professional implication is that humanistic counselors can create optimal leisure lifestyle strategies linked to the AHC principles of discovering meaning and purpose, developing deep connections with people and nature, moving toward growth and change, maintaining a holistic approach to humanity, and developing creativity. Future research implications and practical steps that humanistic counselors can use in professional practice to connect the SLP to humanistic counseling principles ..read more