Psychotherapy is a culturally encapsulated healing practice that is created from and dedicated to specific cultural contexts (Frank & Frank, 1993; Wampold, 2007; Wrenn, 1962). Consequently, conventional psychotherapy is a practice most suitable for dominant cultural groups within North America and Western Europe but may be culturally incongruent…

Psychological research has shown the detrimental effects that overt heterosexism have on lesbian, gay, bisexual, and queer (LGBQ) clients and on the psychotherapeutic relationship. However, the effects of subtle forms of discrimination, specifically sexual orientation microaggressions, have on LGBQ clients and the therapeutic relationship have not…

Most psychotherapy research uses a one-with-many design, in which each therapist (the one) treats multiple clients (the many), which raises the challenge of nonindependent data. We present a statistical model for analyzing data from studies that use a one-with-many design. This model addresses the problems associated with nonindependence and can…

The authors investigated the association between adaptive and maladaptive perfectionism and relationship quality in 197 engaged couples. When both partners were maladaptive perfectionists, they were more likely to be grouped into less functional couple types. Couples in which both partners were adaptive perfectionists tended to cluster in more…

Demonstrates how, by adopting active agent model of humans and several associated research methodologies, one can conduct research using point estimation. Presents two studies that establish link between meaningfulness of action and subject's ability to self-determine actions in that domain. Agentic models are shown to greatly enhance explanatory…

Approaches to analyzing data to two sets of variables are summarized and the advantages of canonical correlation analysis are described. (Author)

Provides recent lists of both authors and specific articles and books that have stood the test of time and are still influencing the field (classics) and that are frequently cited in the recent counseling research (possible emerging classics). (Author)

This article provides an overview of several core theoretical and practical aspects of participatory action research (PAR). An effort is made to define PAR and the types of work that fall under that rubric. Historical underpinnings, roles of the individuals involved, contexts, methods, and the challenges and benefits of this mode of inquiry are…

Social class is an important cultural construct, but it is poorly used in research. Problems in using social class may be associated with its poor definition in previous studies; conflating between social class and socioeconomic status; using objective indices such as income, education, and occupation rather than subjective measures; regarding…

The authors tested the effectiveness of 2 group career interventions for 73 battered women who were randomly assigned to 1 of 2 treatment conditions or a wait-list control group. Both interventions included the 5 most effective career intervention components identified by S. D. Brown and N. E. Krane (2000), and 1 of the interventions also was…

Articles and brief reports appearing in the first 19 volumes of the Journal of Counseling Psychology were classified into 17 content categories and certain methodological features were recorded from each research article. The three principle areas of research activity and publication were counseling outcome and process research, research on…

Depression in a college population was found to be correlated with small changes in many activities rather than with the large reductions in overt behavior reported for clinically depressed individuals. Results of the study suggest the possibility of an operant component in maintaining depressive behavior. (Author)

Updated by five years the research of Strahan (1982) who noted trend toward multiple authorship in "Journal of Counseling Psychology" (JCP) articles, and also examined "The Counseling Psychologist" (TCP). Concluded that the trend toward multiple authorship in JCP and TCP may be leveling off. (Author/KS)

The Journal of Counseling Psychology for 1970-1979 was searched, and values of n (analysis of variance) were computed on each univariate inferential statistic reported. Frequency distributions compiled for the values of n2 revealed that the median strength of association value for research reported was .0830. (Author)

Proposes and tests strategy for validating self-report attitude measures in counseling research. Presents data from college student sample indicating that attitude measures correlated with proportion of attitude-consistent arguments generated and retrieved from memory. Methods investigated provide clearly interpretable convergent and discriminant…