Spiritual Issues in Counseling: A New Course

A new course designed to explore spiritual issues that occur in counseling is described. Topics such as understanding spirituality, assessing client spiritual needs, and Identifying spiritual issues in counseling are discussed within a multicultural framework.     

Counseling Taiwan Chinese in America: Training Issues for Counselors

This article examines cultural influences on Taiwan Chinese in America who seek counseling. Typical counseling struggles, effective counseling strategies and theoretical approaches, and training implications are addressed.     

Girls' and Women's Issues in Counseling: A Theory‐Based Course Design

In this article, the development of a master's‐level course regarding girls' and women's issues in counseling is described. First, the pedagogical foundation for the course design is highlighted. Second, the learning goals for the course are outlined: (a) knowledge of counseling issues pertinent to girls and women in contemporary society, (b) development of effective interventions based on gender‐informed counseling approaches, and (c) awareness of counselors' advocacy role in improving the situation of girls and women. Corresponding teaching methods and class activities are also provided.     

Professional Issues: Considering Gender in Counseling Center Practice: Individual and Institutional Actions

Current literature suggests that counselors need to take into consideration the social construction of gender and its role in the psychological development of women and men and their presenting concerns. The inclusion of gender aware assessment practices in counseling on college campuses is proposed. Suggestions for ways counseling centers can affect social and institutional practices that negatively affect female and male students are presented. The importance of counselors engaging in social action directed at improving the college environment for all students is emphasized.     

Issues and Criteria in Developing Psychological Education Programs for Elementary Schools

The inclusion of elementary school guidance and counseling within the current structure of American education is questioned by an examination of the ACES / ASCA joint policy statement on the role and responsibilities of the elementary school counselor. It is suggested that the vagueness and abstruseness of most definitions of elementary guidance and counseling are largely attributable to a lack of conceptual roots in a subject-matter discipline, developmental psychology, and the process of education. The notion of development as the central focus of guidance and counseling is then explored with particular emphasis on development as primary prevention.     

Pressing Issues in College Counseling: A Survey of American College Counseling Association Members

The authors conducted a survey of members of the American College Counseling Association to ascertain the experiences and opinions of college counselors on several pressing issues within the college counseling profession. Survey results from 133 respondents indicated that counseling centers may benefit from increasing the number of group counseling interventions by increasing the multicultural competence of services provided, by implementing crisis/disaster mental health initiatives, and by more effectively consulting with other professionals on campus.     

Professional Issues: Alcohol Abuse and College Counseling: An Overview of Research and Practice

Recent research suggests that alcohol abuse is widespread among college students, with approximately 20% of all students qualifying as heavy drinkers and over 40% of students reporting at least 1 binge-drinking episode in a given 2-week period. This drinking is associated with a number of adverse consequences, including sexual misconduct, damage to property, academic difficulty, drunk driving, unsafe sex, and suicidality. This article identifies tools that have demonstrated value in detecting and assessing alcohol problems and summarizes those counseling approaches that have been found to be successful and unsuccessful in reducing alcohol consumption. A major conclusion is that the structure and content of most campus counseling services are poorly suited to deliver high quality interventions for students with alcohol problems. Five steps are identified far improving the level of programming for at-risk college and university students.     

Reconstructing Counselor Education: Issues of Our Pedagogical Foundation

Questions regarding the science and art of teaching have largely gone unexplored in the discipline of counselor education. The goal of the articles in this special feature is to stimulate discussion and debate about the pedagogical foundations of professional counseling.     

The Incidence of Racial Issues in White Counseling Dyads: An Exploratory Survey

In a survey of White counselors, 45% reported White clients raising racial issues relevant to counseling, with 26% reporting White clients with racial concerns as a main counseling issue.     

再论高校心理咨询工作应注意的两个理论问题

高校心理咨询工作应正确对待和选用心理测验。心理测验是研究心理学的重要方法和决策的辅助工具，但心理测验作为一种研究手段和测量工具尚不完善。由于文化对心理咨询有着十分重要的影响，因此高校心理咨询应注意获得社会对心理咨询的理解与支持，同时也要注意心理咨询的本土化模式的构建问题。     

我国心理咨询职业化进程中的问题及建议

心理咨询是现代社会中一个重要的职业领域,其职业行为的规范性及其发展水平关系到人们的身心健康和切身利益。我国心理咨询业起步较晚,在职业化发展过程中突出表现在总体水平较低、行业缺少规范,咨询人员良莠不齐、甚至滥竽充数,使人们对心理咨询产生了诸多误解。通过对上述问题进行分析和讨论并提出相应建议,期望能够引起有关部门及从业人员的关注,以推动心理咨询业朝着职业化、规范化的方向发展。     

Professional Issues: Common Stressors Among International College Students: Research and Counseling Implications

International college students studying in North America endure substantial psychological stress in their daily lives. The nature and function of stressors in the context of international college students' subjective appraisal are discussed and analyzed using Lazarus and Folkman's (1984) concept of stress. Recommendations for future research are outlined, and counseling implications are provided.     

The Inclusion of Women's and Gender Issues in Counselor Education Programs: A Survey

The results of a survey of 120 counselor education programs on the inclusion of women's and gender issues in counseling curricula are presented.     

Gender Issues in Counselor Education: Current Status and Challenges

This article examines the status of gender studies in counseling programs and the ethical significance for integrating gender within curricula.     

Professional Issues: Documentation of Emotional and Mental Disabilities: The Role of the Counseling Center

Students with emotional disabilities are attending institutions of higher education in increasing numbers. To assist counseling centers in their role of reviewing documentation for accommodation requests, suggestions are offered about who may be qualified to provide the evaluation and what information the evaluation should contain.     

Research Issues in the Study of Professional Ethics

Limitations of current approaches to the study of professional ethics in counseling are identified and discussed and specific directions for improving research approaches are suggested.     

Ethical Issues in Supervising Counseling Practitioners

Major ethical issues related to training and supervising counseling practitioners are discussed including transference, dependency, and power in the supervisory relationship, dual relationships, stereotyping, and the imposition of the supervisor's beliefs on the supervisee. Suggestions for lessening the threat of ethical violations are identified.     

Career Dilemmas in Career Counseling Groups: Theoretical and Practical Issues

A career dilemma is a hypothetical or real situation in which a character is confronted with several career options each of which has advantages and disadvantages. The main purpose of presenting and discussing a dilemma in career counseling groups is to confront several appraisals of the situation in order to promote more complex thinking about career choices. Another important aim of this technique is to enhance interaction between group members and to analyze similar career dilemmas that the group participants have experienced in the past. The use of the discussion of career dilemmas is described, especially the role of the career counselor, and some suggestions for future research are presented.     

Athletic Identity of Community College Student Athletes: Issues for Counseling

Community college student athletes are unique in their setting in the world of college student athletes. Many compete for the love of their sport, while others have aspirations for transferring to major colleges to continue their participation. The current study made use of the Athletic Identity Measurement Scale with a sample of nearly 400 community college student athletes to begin to understand some of the unique counseling needs of these students. These needs are highlighted by the need for student athletes to have a mentally healthy perspective on the role of sport in life and the relationship of sports to academic pursuits. Community college administrators need to use caution in balancing student development with mental health concerns.     

高校心理咨询工作中值得注意的几个理论问题

本文通过对高校心理咨询与心理治疗、心理教育关系的分析、认为从我国国情出发,只有对三者的工作目标、任务、对象、模式、内容、方式方法等严加区分,才能有效地做好上述三种工作;通过对高校心理咨询内容和重点的分析,认为随着科技进步和教改的推进,应将发展性咨询作为我国高校心理咨询的重点。明确这两个理论问题,不仅对纠正我国高校心理咨询实践中的工作偏差和充分发挥心理咨询在高校教育中的应有作用十分必要,且对于把握高校心理咨询工作的发展方向至关重要。