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{"title":"Rembering Dr. Aaron T. Beck and Dr. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi in moving forward in counselling and psychotherapy in Asia","authors":"D. Zhou, Nigel S. Thompson, Kwok Ho Ling","doi":"10.1080/21507686.2022.2040125","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21507686.2022.2040125","url":null,"abstract":"As a global community, we are tested by various large-scale challenges – epidemiological, cultural, sociopolitical, and etc. These continually call upon our individual and collective capacities to strengthen our resilience, meaning, empathy and mutual support. As we remember those among us who have passed on, our fear, grief, and loss in the face of the spectres of illness and mortality are ever counter-balanced by our existential commitment: to recognize and embody the gifts, the legacies, and the enduring, living contributions of our honoured deceased. In the fall of 2021, the field of psychology felt the departure of two luminaries and historical giants of the profession, Dr. Aaron T. Beck and Dr. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi. The beauty, relevance, and utter timeliness of their contributions and of each of their life’s works adds poignancy to this loss. Both of these men contributed strongly to the precise tools and frameworks so crucial to human sustenance and to thriving-through difficult and uncertain times. Dr. Beck is widely acknowledged as the father of cognitive therapy and cognitive behavioural therapy, arguably the definitive approach to modern helping profession. His direct and indirect beneficial impacts on the lived experiences of countless human beings are prodigious: research, theoretical formulation, countless clinical hours, and most notably the shaping and training of future generations of subsequent scientists, doctors, researchers, and helping professionals up to and including the present-day (Beck, 1967, 1972, 1975, 1989, 1999; Beck & Alford, 2009; Beck et al., 2005, 2003) Dr. Csikszentmihalyi is recognized as one of the great contributors of Positive Psychology. He drew on his ongoing research and keen observations to develop the innovative and influential concept of ‘Flow’ – a vital human capacity of systemic engagement, long since integrated into the professional and popular lexicon. His works (Csikszentmihalyi, 1975, 1978, 1990, 1994, 1996, 1998, 2003, 2014)investigated, celebrated, and mapped out the human family’s diverse pathways to happiness, motivation, and creativity. In times of loss and instability, we seek out and engage inner and interpersonal resources to face pain; we gather courage and compassion; we creatively generate strategies of living and structures of meaning. Aiding, clarifying, and facilitating these worthy efforts is the essence of the counselling and therapeutic enterprise. The contributions of Aaron T. Beck and Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi to this field were tremendous and the shadows of their influence stretch long. They live on through the many colleagues continuing to advance their work and in the countless people continuing to heal, to benefit, and to thrive by means of that work. ASIA PACIFIC JOURNAL OF COUNSELLING AND PSYCHOTHERAPY 2022, VOL. 13, NO. 1, 1–4 https://doi.org/10.1080/21507686.2022.2040125","PeriodicalId":42294,"journal":{"name":"Asia Pacific Journal of Counselling and Psychotherapy","volume":"13 1","pages":"1 - 4"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47478544","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Development and validation of the working alliance inventory short form Thai client version","authors":"Thanapol Leangsuksant, Nattasuda Taephant","doi":"10.1080/21507686.2022.2036784","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21507686.2022.2036784","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This study aims to validate instrumental qualities including reliabilities and construct validity of the short form Thai version of the Working Alliance Inventory (WAI-S). The instrument was developed using a three-step translation process. A sample consists of 102 clients who attended counselling sessions at a university in Thailand. The reliabilities of the Thai WAI-S were high. The confirmatory factor analysis found that both 1-dimension or 3-interrelated dimension models were equally fit and can be used to measure working alliance depending on the research objective.","PeriodicalId":42294,"journal":{"name":"Asia Pacific Journal of Counselling and Psychotherapy","volume":"13 1","pages":"40 - 52"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43135353","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Qualitative inquiry on the experiences of Filipino women living with a sister with breast cancer: insights for psycho-oncology","authors":"J. B. B. Lagarde, J. M. Cauyan, M. Laurino, M. J. Tumulak, M. San Juan, E. Ventura","doi":"10.1080/21507686.2022.2036210","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21507686.2022.2036210","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Psychosocial implications of breast cancer diagnosis in families typically focused on marital and mother-daughter relationships. The lack of sibling-oriented perspectives on this phenomenon led this present study to investigate the experiences of Filipino women living with a sister diagnosed with breast cancer. Using the phenomenological approach of inquiry, semi-structured interviews were conducted to twelve purposively sampled women recruited from the Breast Care Center-Philippine General Hospital between January to February 2017. Qualitative data were analysed using thematic analysis. Findings revealed that the participants have encountered many facets of the impact of the cancer journey, and these oftentimes led to unwanted personal and familial adjustments. Hence, improving the provision of services that address the psychosocial effects of cancer is warranted.","PeriodicalId":42294,"journal":{"name":"Asia Pacific Journal of Counselling and Psychotherapy","volume":"13 1","pages":"68 - 80"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46766341","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Editorial: inspiration from psychotherapeutic practice and supervision in Asian cultures","authors":"D. Zhou, Ho Ling Kwok","doi":"10.1080/21507686.2021.1966889","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21507686.2021.1966889","url":null,"abstract":"Greetings! Welcome to the second issue of the Asia Pacific Journal of Counselling and Psychotherapy in 2021! This is a collection of counselling and psychotherapy-related studies specific to Asian cultures, including Hong Kong, Sri Lanka, China, Taiwan, and Singapore. In this issue, we bring a series of impressive articles that cover topics including therapeutic alliance, assessment approaches, strength-centred therapy and supervisory identity development. A good collaborative relationship between client and therapist, i.e., therapeutic alliance, plays a crucial role in therapeutic outcomes. Lek Hon Edmond Pong, Raysen Cheung and Calvin Kai-Ching Yu examine the predictive powers of clients’ personality traits, affective attributes, relationship security, and expectations on therapeutic working alliance in the Hong Kong Chinese context. They propose a model which comprises three factors including relationship insecurity, caring, and client involvement. Hopefully, counsellors and psychotherapists can attain insights on building up a good therapeutic alliance with clients in Chinese context. In building up a therapeutic relationship, a deep understanding of clients is crucially important. There are many effective ways to acquire such understanding. Many psychological professionals use psychological tests or psychometric scales to explore clients’ personalities, emotional functioning, and thinking patterns. The Rorschach Inkblot Test is a projective psychological test, which can be used for this purpose. James Yu and Queenie Lee argue that a lifeworld assessment approach allows collaboration between client and therapist to explore life themes and personal meanings of the assessment data. They innovatively integrate this approach with the use of the Rorschach Inkblot Test for the purpose of initial therapeutic exploration. The key assessment process is illustrated with a child case in Hong Kong. Authenticity can be used as one of the indicators of a person’s psychological wellbeing. Piyanjali de Zoysa, Shamala Kumar, Santushi D Amarasuriya, and Navneth S R Mendis discuss their application of the Sinhala version of the Authenticity Scale to undergraduate students in Sri Lanka. Their results elucidate how the construct of authenticity can be appropriately and effectively operationalized and assessed; and how authenticity may vary as a function of gender and faculty of study. They discuss the potential use of the Sinhala version of the scale. The authors observe higher authenticity in females than in males. This reminds therapists to consider gender-related factors in counselling sessions. Jonah Li and Joel Wong propose that strength-centred therapy can be a positive and culturally flexible therapeutic approach for Chinese clients. They explore the compatibility of strength-centred therapy with Chinese virtues and Chinese indigenous ASIA PACIFIC JOURNAL OF COUNSELLING AND PSYCHOTHERAPY 2021, VOL. 12, NO. 2, 109–110 https://doi.org/10.1080/21507686.2021.1","PeriodicalId":42294,"journal":{"name":"Asia Pacific Journal of Counselling and Psychotherapy","volume":"12 1","pages":"109 - 110"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43886769","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Strength-centered therapy: a positive and culturally flexible therapeutic approach","authors":"P. F. J. Li, Joel Wong","doi":"10.1080/21507686.2021.1925313","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21507686.2021.1925313","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Although positive therapies have demonstrated effectiveness in Western contexts, their cross-cultural applications have been questioned. This article proposes that Strength-Centered Therapy (ST) can be a promising and culturally flexible therapeutic approach for Chinese clients. After overviewing ST, the authors discuss the compatibility of ST with Chinese virtues and the notions of self-development advocated in dominant Chinese indigenous philosophies, namely, Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism. Along with ST’s clinical flexibility, the authors propose that the compatibility of ST makes it a culturally flexible therapeutic approach to use with clients from Chinese cultures. The authors also describe a case example with Chinese cultural backgrounds, showcasing the phases and techniques of ST. Implications for research and practice are discussed.","PeriodicalId":42294,"journal":{"name":"Asia Pacific Journal of Counselling and Psychotherapy","volume":"12 1","pages":"154 - 169"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/21507686.2021.1925313","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47234861","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Cognitive reframing and socio-affective regulation modes in emotional self-disclosure: a Taiwanese sample","authors":"Shayne S‐H Lin, Emily T. Liu","doi":"10.1080/21507686.2021.1960398","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21507686.2021.1960398","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The present study investigated emotional change following emotional self-disclosure, and the effects of cognitive reframing and socio-affective regulation modes in a Taiwanese sample. Data from 120 participants were collected from a university in northern Taiwan. Participants recalled a negative memory and disclosed the memory to a confederate via internet. Participants were randomly assigned to one of four conditions: 1) cognitive reframing, 2) socio-affective, 3) combined group, and 4) control group. Two sets of mixed factorial ANOVA were implemented to examine emotional change in response to cognitive reframing and socio-affective regulation modes. Results indicated that only cognitive reframing regulation mode facilitated emotional change over and beyond the effect of emotional self-disclosure. Relevant research findings and clinical implications were discussed.","PeriodicalId":42294,"journal":{"name":"Asia Pacific Journal of Counselling and Psychotherapy","volume":"12 1","pages":"170 - 185"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/21507686.2021.1960398","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45299531","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Singaporean supervisory identity development and its relationship to supervisory experience, counselling experience, and training in supervision","authors":"N. Pelling","doi":"10.1080/21507686.2021.1960400","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21507686.2021.1960400","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The relationship between supervisory identity development and supervisory experience, counselling experience, and training in supervision was examined for a group of 29 Singaporean counsellors who attended a workshop on supervision. Analyses indicated that supervisory experience was related to supervisory identity development, whilst counselling experience and supervisory training initially were not. Additionally, participants showed significantly greater scores on the Psychotherapy Supervisor Development Scale (PSDS) following the workshop when compared with PSDS scores prior to the workshop. Thus, workshop supervision training ultimately aided supervisory identity development. The implications of these findings are discussed in relation to the importance of supervisor credentials.","PeriodicalId":42294,"journal":{"name":"Asia Pacific Journal of Counselling and Psychotherapy","volume":"12 1","pages":"186 - 204"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/21507686.2021.1960400","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46841202","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Therapeutic exploration with the Rorschach Inkblot Test: a case demonstration of the lifeworld approach with a child","authors":"J. L. Yu, Q. Lee","doi":"10.1080/21507686.2021.1960399","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21507686.2021.1960399","url":null,"abstract":"Originally introduced by Hermann Rorschach in his seminal work Psychodiagnostics, the Rorschach Inkblot Method (RIM) was widely recognized as a revolutionary psychological assessment. Nonetheless, Rorschach (1921) cautioned that its theoretical and conceptual foundations were still largely incomplete. Since then, most research on the test has addressed its administration, scoring criteria, and psychometric properties (Leichtman, 1996a). In the early seventies, Exner (1993) developed the Comprehensive System (CS) based on an extensive synthesis of the empirical data available at the time. The system was distinguished by its standardized procedure in administration, scoring, and coding, which is central to its reputation as an empirically grounded system. Weiner (1997) noted that the Rorschach CS had withstood decades of empirical investigation, particularly regarding issues related to inter-coder agreement, reliability, validity, and normative reference data (G. J. Meyer & Archer, 2001; Viglione & Hilsenroth, 2001). Recently, the RIM has faced strong criticisms on both empirical (Lilienfeld et al., 2000; Mihura et al., 2013) and theoretical grounds (Leichtman, 2013). Nevertheless, Meyer et al. (2011) proposed the Rorschach Performance Assessment System (R-PAS) to replace the Rorschach CS. The R-PAS addressed several conceptual and methodological issues associated with the Rorschach CS, including concerns about its validity, norm accuracy, variable number of responses, examiner differences, and the use of raw scores for interpretation. In light of these improvements, Meyer (2017) contended that the RIM remains a valid and unique assessment of personality and psychological processes. On the other hand, Kleiger (1993) highlighted David Rapaport’s contributions to the historical development of the Rorschach test, such as his emphasis on the integration of theory and test data as well as the significance of the patient–examiner relationship. Taken together, Rapaport’s original system and its modified versions were considered as an early endeavour to transcend the mechanical application of the test and promote a more individualized, theory-driven (i.e., ego psychology) interpretation of the data. Nonetheless, the core premise of the Rorschach test is based on hypothetical connections between perception and personality. Phenomenology takes issue with the","PeriodicalId":42294,"journal":{"name":"Asia Pacific Journal of Counselling and Psychotherapy","volume":"12 1","pages":"127 - 137"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/21507686.2021.1960399","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41945622","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Predicting therapeutic alliance with client characteristics and expectations in Hong Kong","authors":"Lek Hon Edmond Pong, Raysen Cheung, C. Yu","doi":"10.1080/21507686.2021.1960575","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21507686.2021.1960575","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This study attempted to examine the extent to which clients’ traits and expectations can predict working alliance within the Hong Kong Chinese context. A total of 144 undergraduate students who received counselling service provided by the counselling centre of the same university participated in this study. Before their first counselling session, they completed the Expectations about Counselling Questionnaire-Brief Form, the Affective Neuroscience Personality Scale, and scales adapted from the International Personality Item Pool. They were also invited to complete the Working Alliance Inventory-Short Form-Client after their third counselling session in the third week. The results demonstrated that clients’ expectation of their own involvement was the strongest predictor of working alliance in comparison with the other tested client traits.","PeriodicalId":42294,"journal":{"name":"Asia Pacific Journal of Counselling and Psychotherapy","volume":"12 1","pages":"111 - 126"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/21507686.2021.1960575","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49553102","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Being yourself: An assessment of authenticity in undergraduates of a University in Sri Lanka","authors":"P. de Zoysa, Shamala Kumar, Santushi D. Amarasuriya, Navneth S. R. Mendis","doi":"10.1080/21507686.2021.1924810","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21507686.2021.1924810","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Authenticity is an indicator of psychological well-being. Until recently, studies on this construct has been scarce. This study aimed to fill this gap by culturally adapting a Sinhala version of the Authenticity Scale and using it to examine authenticity and selected demographic correlates among Sri Lankan undergraduates. The Sinhala version of the Authenticity Scale showed favourable psychometric properties. The survey results on 1235 Sri Lankan undergraduates indicate that this group is comparable to their counterparts in some dimensions of authenticity. The results also indicate that women report higher authenticity than men. Implications of this study are discussed, whilst emphasising the need to take into account variations that may occur in relation to authenticity in demographic factors such as gender.","PeriodicalId":42294,"journal":{"name":"Asia Pacific Journal of Counselling and Psychotherapy","volume":"12 1","pages":"138 - 153"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-05-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/21507686.2021.1924810","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45294252","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}