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{"title":"Korean young adults’ perceptions of fathers’ gender role conflict, depressive symptoms, and paternal relationship quality: the mediating effects of fathers’ violence","authors":"Yoonhee Sung","doi":"10.1080/21507686.2019.1704808","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21507686.2019.1704808","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The present study tested the mediating effects of fathers’ violence on the relationships among Korean young adults’ perceptions of their fathers’ gender role conflict, the quality of their relationships with their fathers, and depressive symptoms. Three hundred fifty six Korean university students in South Korea participated in the study. The hypothesized model was tested by using structural equation modelling. Results indicated fathers’ violence fully mediated the relationship between fathers’ perceived gender role conflict for Success, Power and Competition and paternal relationship quality, and partially mediated the relationship between fathers’ perceived Restrictive Emotionality and paternal relationship quality. Fathers’ perceived Restrictive Emotionality was also associated with their own depressive symptoms. Results were contextualized within dynamics of South Korean society and culture.","PeriodicalId":42294,"journal":{"name":"Asia Pacific Journal of Counselling and Psychotherapy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2020-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/21507686.2019.1704808","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41855367","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":"Art as therapy; museums and galleries as places for psychodynamic art therapy","authors":"David Walters","doi":"10.1080/21507686.2019.1703773","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21507686.2019.1703773","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Galleries and museums house objects and artefacts of potential benefit to the practice of psychodynamic psychotherapy. This paper reflects on the notion of art as therapy, the ability of artistic elements to address the unconscious, and the utility of developing a phenomenology of psychodynamic art therapy. The case of Jonathan (‘fictional case composite’) is described, i.e. his psychotherapy as prompted and furthered by the use of gallery images. According to the psychoanalytic theory of Freud, the language of words, and that of images, may well correspond to the workings of conscious and unconscious. The therapeutic experience of art is likely to include psychoanalytic phenomena (reverie, reflection, reverberation, the uncanny) that may be redirected to self-awareness, personal change and growth..","PeriodicalId":42294,"journal":{"name":"Asia Pacific Journal of Counselling and Psychotherapy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2020-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/21507686.2019.1703773","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47189913","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":"Surviving the break-up: teenagers’ experience in maintaining wellness and well-being after parental divorce","authors":"Sarada Devi R. Subramaniam, M. Sumari, N. Md Khalid","doi":"10.1080/21507686.2019.1702069","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21507686.2019.1702069","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The study uses a phenomenological approach to explore teenagers’ conceptualization of wellness after parental divorce. Ten teenagers between 16 and 18, who all have a minimum of one year of living as a part of a divorce family, participated in this study, which was conducted in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Data were gathered through semi-structured interviews and were triangulated with information gathered while monitoring contents from participants’ social media profiles. Nine themes emerged from the data analysis: (1) Reluctant to confront their parents’ divorce, (2) Willingness to express and reflect, (3) Acceptance of parental divorce, (4) Forgiveness of their parents, (5) Letting it go and moving on with life, (6) Acceptance of support from others, (7) Spiritual inclination, (8) Self-help, and (9) Helping others.","PeriodicalId":42294,"journal":{"name":"Asia Pacific Journal of Counselling and Psychotherapy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2020-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/21507686.2019.1702069","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47714774","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":"Tears of joy among post-college-age Japanese adults: implications for resilience","authors":"Edward Hoffman, Alison Tran, Hidekazu Sasaki, Yurie Igarashi","doi":"10.1080/21507686.2019.1636836","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21507686.2019.1636836","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This study was conducted to follow up an earlier investigation which examined tears of joy (TOJ) among Japanese undergraduates. In the present investigation, 193 Japanese adults (age range = 31 to above 81; 46.7% were older than age 60) responded to a survey inquiring if they had ever experienced TOJ. If they answered affirmatively, they were asked their frequency of TOJ, when was their most recent TOJ episode, and to what extent it relieved their stress and improved their physical well-being immediately afterwards. The vast majority (83.4%) had experienced TOJ in their life. However, TOJ frequency was sharply divergent: although 38% reported TOJ in the past month, 26.1% had not experienced TOJ in over 12 months. Consistent with previous studies, TOJ frequency was significantly associated with high self-reported emotionality compared to peers. For men, TOJ frequency was associated with self-reported effectiveness in coping with stress. Among participants in middle adulthood (age = 41 to 60) but not later adulthood (age 61 and older), TOJ frequency was associated with both stress relief and enhanced physical well-being after a TOJ episode. The implications for strengthening resilience among post-college-age Japanese are discussed and avenues for further research are highlighted.","PeriodicalId":42294,"journal":{"name":"Asia Pacific Journal of Counselling and Psychotherapy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2019-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/21507686.2019.1636836","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48250440","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":"Multicultural perspectives of help-seeking, stress coping and assessment adaptation","authors":"D. Zhou, Ho Ling Kwok","doi":"10.1080/21507686.2019.1640970","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21507686.2019.1640970","url":null,"abstract":"Welcome to the second issue of Asia Pacific Journal of Counselling and Psychotherapy in 2019! This issue includes eight selected articles with the major themes of help-seeking, coping, and validation of an assessment instrument. Authors draw attention to the conditions in diverse cultures, including those of Hong Kong, Japan, Malaysia, Bangladesh, Cambodia, Uganda, and Australia. Mental health professionals from all over the world have a common mission: to help their clients by promoting their psychological well-being. People of different cultural backgrounds may hold different attitudes towards help-seeking. In general, Westerners are more open to the use of mental health services than Asians. Raise Chan, Nigel Thompson and Calvin Yu compare help-seeking attitude, locus of control and emotional expressivity across Hong Kong people and Westerners and explore the relationships between these three factors. This inspires helping professionals to take cultural values into account when providing counselling services to clients of different cultural origins. The study conducted by Miki Noda, Yu Sakagami and Hiroshi Tsujimoto examines help-seeking behaviours in the Asian context. Overwhelming work-related stress can cause mental illness. Yet, people with mental disorders in Japan are often reluctant to seek mental health services. The authors explore the subjective experiences and psychological processes of employees who are accessing mental health services. They highlight how the strong and deeply-rooted sense of working role in the minds of Japanese employees can impede them from seeking mental health services and affect treatment outcomes. This reminds Japanese mental health professionals to be aware of the fixation and prioritization of ‘worker’ identity. Help-seeking is not restricted to the general public alone. Facing people with different emotional needs on a constant basis renders mental health practitioners vulnerable to burnout. Since they are trained to support the mental health of others, they are sometimes hesitant to seek help for themselves. Marieke Ledingham, Peter Standen, Chris Skinner and Robbie Busch utilise survey and semi-structured interviews to explore burnout-related beliefs and perceptions among mental health practitioners. The results of this study alert practitioners, supervisors and educators about the importance of self-care. Support for helping professionals is crucially important. Lacking systemic support, counsellors can experience the same mental health challenges as their clients. Lorien Jordan, Desiree Seponski and Stephanie Armes uncover the experiences of counsellors in Cambodia, where the counselling profession is still a newly-developing field. The participants’ shared accounts provide insights about the essential support they need. ASIA PACIFIC JOURNAL OF COUNSELLING AND PSYCHOTHERAPY 2019, VOL. 10, NO. 2, 93–94 https://doi.org/10.1080/21507686.2019.1640970","PeriodicalId":42294,"journal":{"name":"Asia Pacific Journal of Counselling and Psychotherapy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2019-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/21507686.2019.1640970","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42735957","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":"Home roles, stress and coping among female nurses in selected hospitals in Kampala Uganda","authors":"Wilber Karugahe","doi":"10.1080/21507686.2019.1636835","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21507686.2019.1636835","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This study examined the relationship between home roles, stress and coping strategies among 100 nurses in Kampala selected using stratified and random sampling techniques. Data was analyzed using Spearman rank order correlation and regression used to test coping as a moderation in the relationship between home roles and stress. Results revealed that home roles are not significantly related. However, results also revealed that both home roles and stress were both significantly related to coping strategies. Results revealed that coping predicts insignificant effect on the relationship between home roles and stress. Also, the relationship between home roles and stress was inverse. This study finding explores strategies that could aid nurses to deal with work stress, strengthen nurses and clients’ relationship which ultimately could influence effective Counselling and Psychotherapy.","PeriodicalId":42294,"journal":{"name":"Asia Pacific Journal of Counselling and Psychotherapy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2019-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/21507686.2019.1636835","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47304502","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":"Help-seeking attitudes, locus of control, and emotional expressivity in Hong Kong and Western people","authors":"Raise Kim-Lui Chan, Nigel S. Thompson, C. Yu","doi":"10.1080/21507686.2019.1634603","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21507686.2019.1634603","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The current study investigated whether the relationship between help-seeking attitudes and locus of control varied across Hong Kong and Western people. The relationship between help-seeking and locus of control was examined with consideration of emotional expressivity, age, sex, and ethnicity. 83 Hong Kong locals and 79 Westerners were asked to complete the Inventory of Attitudes Toward Seeking Mental Health Services, Rotter’s Internal-External Locus of Control Scale, and Berkeley Expressivity Questionnaire. The results show that Hong Kong locals have less positive help-seeking attitudes compared with Western people. Internal locus of control and high emotional expressiveness can indicate positive help-seeking attitudes. Nevertheless, locus of control is a stronger indicator for Western people than for Hong Kong people.","PeriodicalId":42294,"journal":{"name":"Asia Pacific Journal of Counselling and Psychotherapy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2019-06-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/21507686.2019.1634603","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41307331","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":"The psychological process of workers who access mental health services: a qualitative study focused on workers’ sense of ‘me as a worker’","authors":"Miki Noda, Y. Sakagami, H. Tsujimoto","doi":"10.1080/21507686.2019.1634601","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21507686.2019.1634601","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Although work-related stress can cause mental disorders, some workers are unwilling to seek mental health services. To provide effective support, understanding their sense of ‘me as a worker’ is important. The present study clarifies workers’ psychological process in accessing mental health services. Individual semi-structured interviews were conducted to collect data from five workers. Data were analysed using the grounded theory approach. The analysis identified nine categories. Findings indicated that when workers were fixated on their working roles, a strong sense of ‘me as a worker’ interfered with receiving treatment. Because these workers prioritized work, profound understanding from their supervisors, who serve as valuable people to them, is key for the former to shift their self-consciousness from work to health.","PeriodicalId":42294,"journal":{"name":"Asia Pacific Journal of Counselling and Psychotherapy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2019-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/21507686.2019.1634601","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48203674","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":"Adaptation of the scale for the assessment of positive symptoms and scale for the assessment of negative symptoms of schizophrenia in Bangladesh","authors":"Liza Akter, Farzana Akter Srabony, F. Deeba, S. Roy","doi":"10.1080/21507686.2019.1634602","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21507686.2019.1634602","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT There is no reliable and valid psychometric measure in Bangladesh to assist mental health and relevant professionals to assess the presence and severity of symptoms of schizophrenic patients as regularly used in developed countries. Hence two widely used measures, SAPS (34-items) and SANS (25-items) had been tested with a Bangladeshi sample to determine their psychometric properties. Factor analysis, reliability and validity had been tested for the measures on 170 patients (Mean age= 28.10 years; SD= 10.04). A two factors (positive and negative) model for the total nine global items using exploratory factor analysis were identified. Both measures showed high internal consistency and all items were significantly correlated with each other and total scores of the measures.","PeriodicalId":42294,"journal":{"name":"Asia Pacific Journal of Counselling and Psychotherapy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2019-06-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/21507686.2019.1634602","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48266130","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":"“I should have known”. The perceptual barriers faced by mental health practitioners in recognising and responding to their own burnout symptoms","authors":"Marieke Ledingham, Peter Standen, Chris Skinner, Robbie Busch","doi":"10.1080/21507686.2019.1634600","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21507686.2019.1634600","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Studies have shown burnout to be a significant problem in the mental health field, causing workers serious health problems and reducing quality of care provided to clients. Yet despite mental health practitioners’ training in supporting others’ emotional health, they may be reluctant to seek help for burnout symptoms. This paper addresses this paradox by showing how human cognitive processes could act as powerful blocks to the recognition of and response to burnout. Fifty-five mental health practitioners’ beliefs and perceptions about burnout were examined using qualitative interview and survey data interpreted through a phenomenological perspective on attribution theory. The study identified four perceptual biases and identified professional identity and stress-induced cognitive deficit having influence on the recognition and response to burnout.","PeriodicalId":42294,"journal":{"name":"Asia Pacific Journal of Counselling and Psychotherapy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2019-06-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/21507686.2019.1634600","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47308132","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}