{"title":"Supervisory style match and psychotherapy trainee effectiveness in China.","authors":"Xu Li, Shitao Chen, Yuge Han","doi":"10.1037/cou0000825","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/cou0000825","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This study focuses on two objectives: revising and validating the Supervisory Style Inventory (SSI; Friedlander & Ward, 1984) for use in China, and examining how supervisory style match predicts trainee clinical performance manifested by their client symptom outcomes. Participants included 173 beginning therapist trainees who saw 1,916 clients under the supervision of 73 supervisors in a Chinese mental health counseling training program. Clients completed measures of their symptom distress before every session; trainees completed the SSI for their expected supervisory style at the beginning of practicum and their perceived actual supervisory style at the end of the practicum; supervisors completed the SSI at the beginning of practicum to report their self-rated supervisory style. Results show that (a) factor analysis reduced the 33-item SSI to 21 items with two subscales: Task-Focused and Organized (TFO) and Relationship-Focused and Supportive (RFS). This structure demonstrated measurement invariance across trainee and supervisor versions. (b) Trainee-perceived RFS scores significantly predicted greater client symptom improvement, while supervisor-self-rated RFS scores negatively correlated with client outcomes. No significant effects were found for TFO scores. (c) Regarding supervisory style match, greater mismatch between trainee-expected and supervisor-self-rated styles predicted poorer client outcomes. Mismatches between trainee-expected and trainee-perceived or trainee-perceived and supervisor-self-rated styles did not significantly predict client outcomes. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":48424,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Counseling Psychology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2025-10-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145233890","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Correcting myths underlying anti-trans legislation: Qualitative meta-analysis on transgender identity development.","authors":"Kelsey A Kehoe, Heidi M Levitt","doi":"10.1037/cou0000827","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/cou0000827","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Transgender people have been under increasing legislative attack and scrutiny, particularly since 2020. This article presents a qualitative meta-analysis that examined the functions and meanings of gender within transgender identity development. Using a critical-constructivist grounded theory qualitative meta-analytic approach, we reviewed 27 qualitative studies (including 426 total participants) based in the United States to understand how trans participants' identities developed. There was great diversity in participant sexual orientations and gender identities. Findings indicated that trans identities supported participants in claiming their internal sense of gender, which allowed them to overcome their internalized transphobia and surrender to their deep need to explore their authentic experiences of gender and to identify its discordance with cisheteronormative genders. These findings indicated that transgender identities and communities have functioned in a manner that is sharply different from that which is represented in the rhetoric that underpins anti-transgender legislation. The qualitative meta-analytic results provided a set of evidence-based corrections to counter contemporary myths that frame transgender identity development as characterized by manipulation and pathology. By replacing these myths with descriptions of gender tied to self-agency, self-expression, and self-celebration, our findings can be used in advocacy by policymakers, activists, researchers, and counseling psychologists working with trans populations and combatting anti-trans legislation. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":48424,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Counseling Psychology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2025-10-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145233824","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Examining gender and critical consciousness in the associations between White privilege attitudes and system-legitimizing ideologies in White college students.","authors":"Delida Sanchez, Sarah Arango, Whitney Adams, Isabella Stoto, Génesis Genao, Enrique Aguayo, Annemarie Dechellis","doi":"10.1037/cou0000799","DOIUrl":"10.1037/cou0000799","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>We examined the associations between White Privilege Attitudes Scale (WPAS) and two system-legitimizing ideologies, social dominance orientation and anti-immigrant attitudes, among 819 White American college students (63.2% women). Gender and critical consciousness were examined as potential moderators in these links. <i>T</i> tests assessed group differences in study variables based on gender. Direct associations between WPAS, system-legitimizing ideologies, and two-way interactions between gender and critical consciousness were examined via path analyses. White women reported significantly higher rates of WPAS and critical consciousness and significantly lower rates of system-legitimizing ideologies than White men. WPAS confront was negatively associated, and WPAS cost was positively associated with system-legitimizing ideologies. Significant positive two-way interactions were found between WPAS Cost × Gender and WPAS Cost × Critical Consciousness for system-legitimizing ideologies. Our findings identified distinct patterns between WPAS and system-legitimizing ideologies among White college students. The anticipated costs of addressing White privilege may serve as a barrier against reducing system-legitimizing ideologies, particularly among White men. Willingness to confront White privilege may be associated with lower system-legitimizing ideologies. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":48424,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Counseling Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"463-474"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2025-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144200485","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Barriers and facilitators to the successful school-to-work transition: A qualitative study with vocational college students from rural China.","authors":"Wei Wan, Jonas Masdonati, Renxiang Kuang","doi":"10.1037/cou0000820","DOIUrl":"10.1037/cou0000820","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Rural youth with low educational attainment are among one of the most vulnerable populations in China and face numerous challenges in the school-to-work transition (STWT) process. This study aimed to investigate the barriers and facilitators to the career development of vocational college graduates from rural China, with a particular focus on how these factors affected their entry into the workforce. As a secondary aim, we explored their view of work. We conducted a consensual qualitative analysis of 18 interviews with Chinese vocational college graduates from rural areas. Barriers to their STWT included economic constraints, low educational attainment, unfavorable labor market conditions, and a lack of social networks in cities, while protective resources included government financial support, family emotional support, support from school professionals, connections with individuals from their village, and critical consciousness. Moreover, our participants aspired to jobs that would allow them to meet survival needs, enjoy leisure time, achieve education-employment fit, and facilitate personal growth. The results empirically confirmed the recent adaptation of the STWT model from the psychology of working theory in a non-Western context. Implications for future studies and interventions to facilitate STWT are discussed. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":48424,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Counseling Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"503-516"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2025-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144974509","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Kate Coneys, Julia Toomey, Bree C S Parish, Kylie Toomey, Josephine Ariadna Schwalbe, Kun Wang, D Nicholas Top, Martin Kivlighan, Andrés E Pérez-Rojas, Melanie M Wilcox, Peter Sanders, Russell J Bailey
{"title":"Do therapists become more culturally humble with experience? Some humility is warranted.","authors":"Kate Coneys, Julia Toomey, Bree C S Parish, Kylie Toomey, Josephine Ariadna Schwalbe, Kun Wang, D Nicholas Top, Martin Kivlighan, Andrés E Pérez-Rojas, Melanie M Wilcox, Peter Sanders, Russell J Bailey","doi":"10.1037/cou0000817","DOIUrl":"10.1037/cou0000817","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Research has indicated that clients' perceptions of their therapist's cultural humility are important factors in positive treatment outcomes. However, there is a paucity of research examining whether therapists become more culturally humble over time. In this study, we advance this area of literature by testing whether therapists' cultural humility increases with more clinical experience using data from 1,640 clients seen by 21 therapists in a university counseling center over a 4-year time period. Clients rated their therapist's cultural humility starting at the third session and every four sessions after that. Two-level multilevel models (clients nested within therapists) were used to examine the relationship between therapist experience and client pre-post effect size (Cohen's <i>d</i>), average, and baseline cultural humility ratings. Experience was examined both as chronological time and cumulative clients seen. Results indicated that clients' initial and average ratings of their therapist's cultural humility significantly decreased over time as a function of chronological time and cumulative cases, albeit these effects were small. By contrast, therapists' client pre-post changes in cultural humility did not significantly change over time. Last, the relationship between client average, baseline, and pre-post change in cultural humility did not significantly vary between therapists. Implications for training and clinical practice as well as future research are discussed. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":48424,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Counseling Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"517-522"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2025-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144856793","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Family socioeconomic status predicts adolescents' career adaptability through their self-efficacy on career goal setting and exploration: Testing the moderating roles of relationship quality with teachers, parents, and peers.","authors":"Siyi Wang, Hongjian Cao, Nan Zhou","doi":"10.1037/cou0000816","DOIUrl":"10.1037/cou0000816","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Family socioeconomic status (SES) is one key antecedent of adolescents' career adaptability; understanding the mechanisms through which family SES influences career outcomes is thus essential. Grounded in the career self-management model, this study leveraged three-wave data from a sample of 3,196 Chinese adolescents (15.56 ± .58 years old; 52.72% girls) to examine the potential mediating roles of adolescents' self-efficacy on career goal setting and exploration in the association between family SES and adolescents' career adaptability and also test the potential moderating roles of adolescents' relationship quality with various important others (i.e., parents, teachers, and peers) in such associations. Results demonstrated that family SES (Wave 1) was positively associated with adolescents' career adaptability (Wave 3, controlling for the baseline) via positive associations with both adolescents' self-efficacy on career goal setting and exploration (Wave 2, controlling for the baseline). Moreover, relationship quality with parents (Wave 1) and teachers (Wave 1) bolstered the positive association between family SES (Wave 1) and adolescents' career goal-setting self-efficacy (Wave 2). Ultimately, the indirect effect involving career goal-setting self-efficacy was stronger when adolescents had higher (vs. lower) relationship quality with teachers. Implications for research and practice were discussed. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":48424,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Counseling Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"523-537"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2025-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144776651","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Joshua G Parmenter, Sonja D Winter, Zakary A Clements, Keely Alexander, Hannah Taylor
{"title":"How community and individual strengths \"fill our cup\": A preliminary strengths-based psychological mediation framework for LGBTQIA+ communities.","authors":"Joshua G Parmenter, Sonja D Winter, Zakary A Clements, Keely Alexander, Hannah Taylor","doi":"10.1037/cou0000807","DOIUrl":"10.1037/cou0000807","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The psychological mediation framework (PMF) has been used to examine how mechanisms explain the relations between minority stress and mental health disparities among lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, asexual, and agender (LGBTQIA+) communities. Though important in understanding LGBTQIA+ mental health, existing PMF research is deficit-focused and does not include the collective and individual strengths LGBTQIA+ people possess that are associated with well-being. Using a sample of 625 LGBTQIA+ people, the present study proposed a preliminary strengths-based PMF to examine how identity-specific and general strengths help explain the link between LGBTQIA+ community resilience and life satisfaction. Structural equation modeling analyses demonstrated that LGBTQIA+ community resilience was directly associated with life satisfaction, identity-specific strengths (e.g., identity affirmation, identity centrality, authenticity, relationship intimacy), and general strengths processes (e.g., self-compassion, hope, social support). Analyses suggested that higher LGBTQIA+ community resilience was associated with higher identity affirmation, which, in turn, was associated with decreased life satisfaction. LGBTQIA+ community resilience was also associated with life satisfaction through the general strengths processes of hope and social support. Our findings provide a preliminary strengths-based PMF that can be used to expand LGBTQIA+ PMF research. Implications for clinical practice and community-level interventions are discussed. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":48424,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Counseling Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"614-626"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2025-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144286888","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Supplemental Material for Correcting Myths Underlying Anti-Trans Legislation: Qualitative Meta-Analysis on Transgender Identity Development","authors":"","doi":"10.1037/cou0000827.supp","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/cou0000827.supp","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48424,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Counseling Psychology","volume":"18 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2025-09-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145254881","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Klaus E. Cavalhieri, Mun Yuk Chin, Long Jie Huang, Soyeon Kim
{"title":"Critical consciousness and self-compassion as buffers of the effects of classism in a sample of people of color.","authors":"Klaus E. Cavalhieri, Mun Yuk Chin, Long Jie Huang, Soyeon Kim","doi":"10.1037/cou0000824","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/cou0000824","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48424,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Counseling Psychology","volume":"64 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2025-09-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145134636","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“I’m someone who makes sense to my therapist, without me needing to contort myself”: A therapeutic dyad study with queer and/or trans Black, Indigenous, and other People of Color and their therapists.","authors":"Saumya Arora, Kirsten A. Gonzalez, Winni Yang","doi":"10.1037/cou0000822","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/cou0000822","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48424,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Counseling Psychology","volume":"31 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2025-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144928155","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}