{"title":"Directionality: Unifying Psychological and Social Understandings of Well-Being and Distress Through an Existential Ontology","authors":"Mick Cooper","doi":"10.1002/johc.12148","DOIUrl":"10.1002/johc.12148","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 <p>A conceptual framework rooted in existentialism is presented to unify psychological and sociopolitical perspectives. Human beings are <i>directional</i>, with well-being the actualization of highest order directions. Distress emerges through external blocking of directions, or through <i>dysergetic</i> or ineffective internal configurations. Hence, social justice work and counseling have essential, and integrated, roles.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":45214,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Humanistic Counseling","volume":"60 1","pages":"6-25"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2021-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/johc.12148","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44378141","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Life Deliberately Lived: An Existential Portrait of Authenticity, Freedom, and Responsibility in Counseling","authors":"Alfredo F. Palacios","doi":"10.1002/johc.12147","DOIUrl":"10.1002/johc.12147","url":null,"abstract":"<p>To contextualize the scholarship in this special issue, I argue that primary tenets of existentialism are transtheoretical in the counseling profession. Specifically, issues of authenticity, freedom, and responsibility to others are articulated as having shared heritage in existentialism. Deepening the well of existential scholarship can catalyze a renewed relationship between theory and practice.</p>","PeriodicalId":45214,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Humanistic Counseling","volume":"60 1","pages":"2-5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2021-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/johc.12147","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41473961","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ryan Roche, Brian Hutchison, Matthew E. Lemberger-Truelove
{"title":"Historicity in Advocating Student-Within-Environment: Being a Socially Just School Counselor","authors":"Ryan Roche, Brian Hutchison, Matthew E. Lemberger-Truelove","doi":"10.1002/johc.12143","DOIUrl":"10.1002/johc.12143","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article examines the advocating student-within-environment (ASE) approach to school counseling through the concept of historicity. Acknowledging and assessing how historicity influences students' views of their environment and school system can provide the ASE school counselor a deeper understanding of students' perceptual reality and a point of entry in the therapeutic relationship.</p>","PeriodicalId":45214,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Humanistic Counseling","volume":"59 3","pages":"173-187"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2020-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/johc.12143","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49591791","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nicole Stargell, Laurie Craigen, Nicole Bradley, Julia Whisenhunt, Emily Campbell, Victoria E. Kress
{"title":"Relational-Cultural Supervision: A Humanistic Approach to Promoting Vulnerability and Counselor Development","authors":"Nicole Stargell, Laurie Craigen, Nicole Bradley, Julia Whisenhunt, Emily Campbell, Victoria E. Kress","doi":"10.1002/johc.12144","DOIUrl":"10.1002/johc.12144","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Humanistic counseling and supervision place an emphasis on authenticity and connection, two concepts that relate to vulnerability. Authenticity and vulnerability can lead to growth in the context of the supervisory relationship. Relational-cultural supervision is discussed as a humanistic approach that can be used in promoting vulnerability and counselor development.</p>","PeriodicalId":45214,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Humanistic Counseling","volume":"59 3","pages":"188-200"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2020-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/johc.12144","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44256087","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Exploring Cognitive Empathy: Further Validation of the Empathic Counselor Response Scale and Application to Practice","authors":"Hannah B. Bayne, Maria Stack Hankey","doi":"10.1002/johc.12146","DOIUrl":"10.1002/johc.12146","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In this study, we explored findings from a Rasch analysis of the Empathic Counselor Response Scale using a new sample of professional counselors. We examined differences between cognitive and affective empathy, explored whether counselors view highly empathic statements as most helpful, and offered suggestions for future research.</p>","PeriodicalId":45214,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Humanistic Counseling","volume":"59 3","pages":"219-239"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2020-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/johc.12146","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44754515","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Heuristic Inquiry: Bridging Humanistic Research and Counseling Practice","authors":"Nevine Sultan","doi":"10.1002/johc.12142","DOIUrl":"10.1002/johc.12142","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The divide between counseling research and practice is often wide. Humanistic research methodologies such as heuristic inquiry resonate with clinical practice and may bridge the research-practice chasm through focus on real-world experience and self-other understanding. This article illuminates principles of heuristic inquiry and implications for humanistic clinical practice and social justice.</p>","PeriodicalId":45214,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Humanistic Counseling","volume":"59 3","pages":"158-172"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2020-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/johc.12142","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41721745","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Using Gestalt Techniques to Promote Meaning Making in Trauma Survivors","authors":"Laura Copley, Jolynn Carney","doi":"10.1002/johc.12145","DOIUrl":"10.1002/johc.12145","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Researchers traditionally focus on harmful effects of traumatic events without examining potential transformative outcomes. We highlight posttraumatic growth (PTG) as an outcome, aligning with a humanistic approach that embodies a strength-based perspective and nurturing of human capacity. We propose a trauma-informed framework using gestalt techniques to promote correctional experiences and meaning making found in PTG.</p>","PeriodicalId":45214,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Humanistic Counseling","volume":"59 3","pages":"201-218"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2020-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/johc.12145","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43219879","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Diane M. Stutey, Joel Givens, Jenny L. Cureton, Aaron J. Henderson
{"title":"The Practice of Bridling: Maintaining Openness in Phenomenological Research","authors":"Diane M. Stutey, Joel Givens, Jenny L. Cureton, Aaron J. Henderson","doi":"10.1002/johc.12135","DOIUrl":"10.1002/johc.12135","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Bridling is an innovative reflective practice where the researcher intentionally reflects on preconceived ideas of the phenomenon being studied. In this article, bridling is explained, followed by a model of how to implement bridling, examples of bridling applied to phenomenological research studies involving counselors, and implications for the field.</p>","PeriodicalId":45214,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Humanistic Counseling","volume":"59 2","pages":"144-156"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2020-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/johc.12135","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41640434","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}