This study aimed to adapt the "Teaching Students With Disabilities Self-Efficacy Scale" for contemporary school counseling practice. The adaptation, titled the "Students With Learning Disabilities School Counselor Self-Efficacy Scale," is a resource that assesses school counselors' belief in their ability to counsel and support…

Since at least the 1930s, school counselors have used data to inform school counseling programming. However, the evolving complexity of school counselors' identity calls for an updated understanding of the use of data. We offer an expanded definition of data-based decision making that reflects the purpose of using data in educational settings and…

This article examines the issue of therapeutic alliance in counseling the gifted, focusing on the conditions essential to build a therapeutic alliance between the counselor and the patient. The subject of therapeutic counseling has been widely discussed by many psychologists, both from theoretical and practical points of view in many works. It has…

Registered Apprenticeship for young people is an earn-and-learn program for women and men in their late teens and early twenties. It combines academics with paid work experience across many sectors. An essential part of the apprenticeship experience is to be paired with a mentor, who supports, advises, and instructs an apprentice(s) on the job.…

Counselling Faculty and other post-secondary mental health professionals face challenges and issues at work that often differ from those of other faculty and academic staff. In the face of increasing demands for mental health services on post-secondary campuses, as well as the cross-sector impact of COVID-19 on working conditions, the 2021 CAUT…

College-level students experience various life stressors that impact them academically, mentally, and physically. They struggle to navigate through those stressors; however, campus counseling services are underutilized. (Laidlaw et al., 2016). The central purpose of this Dissertation in Practice was to understand college-level students' perception…

Background: Promise programs are a quickly spreading policy tool in the free college movement. Despite their rapid spread, promise programs remain generally untested and there is even less information about how they are implemented. Research Questions: (1) In what ways were The Degree Project's (TDP) theory of change and intents represented in…

Background: Promise scholarship programs are a quickly spreading policy tool in the free college movement. Despite their rapid spread, promise programs remain generally untested and there is even less information about how they are implemented. Focus of study: We study the implementation and effects of the nation's first randomized control trial…

Universities rely on the enrollment of international students who typically pay full tuition. Chinese international students make up the largest population of international students attending universities in the United States. At a midsize public college in the Northeast, the demand for career counseling support from international students is…

This study aimed to investigate the reasons for school absenteeism among students studying at different types of high schools, and school counsellors' practices and proposed solutions for reducing school absenteeism. This was a qualitative research conducted with a phenomenological design. The study group was formed using criterion sampling, one…

Specific memories of early negative life experiences (ENLE) and images play an important role in the cause and persistence of social anxiety. In this study, we aimed to investigate the effectiveness of individual Cognitive Behavior Therapy (iCBT), which includes updating a specific memory of ENLE and related images using the empty chair technique,…

Addressing career decidedness can help university students to increase wellbeing, and hope can be a positive and significant factor for future success. This study aims to examine the model which hypothesized the mediating role of hope in the link between career decidedness and subjective wellbeing of Turkish university students. Data were…

Purpose: Americans with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) represent an emerging vocational rehabilitation (VR) clientele. Method: Following an overview of the etiology, incidence, prevalence, and impact of RA, the authors present strategies to meet the service and support needs of Americans with RA across the phases of the VR process. Results: The…

Counseling centers are part of a national practice environment that arguably encourages expedience rather than thoroughness in working with psychological difficulties. In this landscape, diagnosis is a process where symptom identification is preferred over a more complex understanding of clients. The predominant diagnostic tool used by mental…

This study is positioned to contribute to our growing understanding of how COVID-19 has impacted our students and the individuals tasked with promoting their mental health and wellness. The overarching aim was to understand the lived experiences of middle school professional school counselors (PSCs) in addressing student mental health, during the…