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  • The Mental Health of Latinos/as in the United States : A Multisystemic Examination

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    Rodriguez, Alham F.
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    Previous reports on the state of the Latino/a-focused mental health literature suggest that the quantity of Latino/a-focused articles within the mental health field continued to be disproportionate to the growing percentage of Latino/as in the United States (Liang, Salcedo, Rivera, & Lopez, 2009). As such, Latino/a mental health experiences, needs,...
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    .’s (2009) literature reviews that analyzed the content and methodologies used in Latino/a-focused

  • Gender Biases in Counselor Supervisor Evaluations of Counselors

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    Hadeed, Sabrina M.
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    Gender bias and discrimination are currently some of the most pertinent topics being explored in counseling practice and counselor education and supervision. Because of all the public attention in recent years to the topics of transgender and marriage equality, the definitions of gender identity and gender roles have become more...
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    4 sample consisted of 76 participants from the CRF-S (Counselor Rating Form- Short version) and

  • An Investigation of the Impact of Adding Art Therapy to Mindfulness Enhancement Training

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    Douglas, Eileen K.
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    Attention to the benefits of mindfulness practice transcends the fields of mental health and medicine. Extensive research has explored the use of mindfulness-based practices in counseling and psychotherapy. Benefits of mindfulness practice, both during session and in cases in which mindfulness was only practiced by the therapist outside of session,...
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    Awareness Scale Short (MAAS-S) and coherence as measured by the University of Tokyo Health Sociology Sense

  • The Impact of Weight and Gender Biases in Professional Counseling: Two Analogue Studies

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    Trujillo, Amelia A.
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    The dominant theme in the literature indicates an increase of weight bias as the weight of the average Americans rises (e.g., Andreyeva, Puhl, & Brownell, 2008; Fryar, Kruszon-Moran, Gu, & Ogden, 2018). Both weight and gender biases can lead to acts of social injustice. The majority of the studies show...
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    consistently straightforward. For example, Davis-Coelho, Waltz, and Davis-Coelho (2000) sent first-person

  • Clinical Development for Paraprofessional Counselors : A 12 Session Protocol

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    Sotelo, Dominique L.
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    Paraprofessional counselors comprise a significant sector of the mental health workforce (Buchbinder, 2003; Golden, 1991; Nieuwsma et al., 2014; Norcross, 2000). Professional counselors have offered both praise (Durlak, 1979) and criticism (Nietzel & Fisher, 1981) for paraprofessional counselors and the services that they provide. Paraprofessional counselors work under the guidance...
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    :________________________________________________________ Lorie S. Blackman Paraprofessional counselors comprise a significant sector of the mental

  • Student/school counselor ratios and school attendance rates : review of literature and a correlational study

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    Zimchek, Victor Charles
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    School attendance is perceived as a critical issue in today’s primary and secondary educational systems. This manuscript reviews literature that speaks to the complexity of issues related to truancy and then posits that many of the interventions typically recommended to address truancy are ones that school counselors already provide or...
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    people with appropriate occupations (American School Counselor Association, 2005; Davis, 1969

  • Systemic Predictors of Professional Identity of Master’s and Doctoral Counseling Students

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    Ewe, Edward
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    Understanding the development of professional identity of graduate counseling students is crucial as it contributes to and fosters the overall identity of the counseling profession. Several studies (e.g., Dollarhide, Gibson, & Moss, 2013; Gibson, Dollarhide, & Moss, 2010; Nugget & Jones, 2009) have examined the professional identity development (PID) of...
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  • A Corpus Linguistic Analysis of Tabletop Role-Playing Game Blogging

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    James, R. Paul
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    Tabletop role-playing games (TRPG) such as Dungeons & Dragons™ are widely known and enjoyed by diverse individuals across the world. However, TRPGs and their players historically have experienced significant stigmatization due to the misconception by some that fantasy role play leads to psychological dysfunction. While a large body of research...
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    exists applying corpus linguistic analysis such as LIWC-22’s psycholinguistic processes (Boyd et al

  • The Impact of Digital Media on Mandala Making in Art Therapy

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    Donahue, Elizabeth C.
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    In the United States, the utilization of digital media has assumed an omnipresent status and has altered the manner in which we communicate, conduct business, and create art and music. However, it has been demonstrated that art therapy lags behind the current culture of prolific use of digital media. To...
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    ). London: Jessica Kingsley Evans, S. (2012, March 23). Using computer technology in expressive arts

  • Equine-Assisted Group Work : An Exploration of Therapeutic Factors and Group Practices

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    Schroeder, Katy
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    Equine-assisted group work has recently emerged in the empirical literature as a promising treatment approach for a variety of populations, including women trauma survivors (Whittlesey-Jermone, 2014; Shambo, Seely, & Vonderfecht, 2010). However, group therapeutic processes (e.g., therapeutic factors) and group leader characteristics have yet to be studied in equine-assisted groups....
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    potential differences between inpatient and outpatient groups. Crouch et al.’s (1994) findings indicated