The Counseling Psychologist
Journal Data
| Type | JOURNAL |
|---|---|
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (US) |
| ISSN | 0011-0000 / 1552-3861 |
| Scopus | 13438 |
| Wikidata | Q7727752 |
| OpenAlex | S104827148 |
| MAG | 104827148 |
| Website | http://tcp.sagepub.com/ |
| Total publications | 2.623 |
| Coverage period | 1969 - 2026 |
| Country | US |
| Language | EN |
| Indexing | Scopus indexed |
| Cited by | 20.487 |
| Impact factor | 1.528 |
| SJR | 1.025 (Q2) |
| SNIP | 1.408 |
| CiteScore | 4.4 |
| h-index | 54 |
| i10-index | 497 |
| 2-year mean citedness | 0.2245 |
| Female authorship share | 60.3% |
The Counseling Psychologist is a journal dedicated to counseling psychology, covering theory, research, and practice in the field. While psychological anthropology is a related subfield, this journal's applied and clinical focus makes its intersection with social anthropology loose and occasional
Applied Psychology · Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology · Attachment and Relationship Dynamics · Behavioral and Psychological Studies · Career Development and Diversity · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development · Child Therapy and Development · Child Welfare and Adoption · Community Health and Development
Psychosocial Strengths, Well-Being, and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Symptoms among LGBTQ+ Young Adults
This study aims to explore the associations between multiple psychosocial resources at the individual-level (personal resilience) and at the family and community levels (social support from significant other, social support from family, social support from friends, and caregiver acceptance) and two mental health outcomes (psychological well-being and posttraumatic stress disorder [PTSD] symptoms) among 460 ( M age = 21.6 years) lesbian, gay, bise…
Supporting Adults with Misattributed Paternity: Insights from U.S.-Based Counselling Professionals
Commercial DNA testing has led to an increase in individuals discovering misattributed paternity (the discrepancy between the genetic and social fatherhoods outside of adoption and donor-assisted reproduction), posing significant emotional, identity-related, and relational challenges. Despite this growing prevalence, no studies currently exist on how counselling professionals can support individuals navigating this experience. Our study examines …
Exploring Excellence: A Qualitative Analysis of Interviews with Top-Performing Psychotherapists
Researchers suggest that psychotherapists are an essential element in positive mental health outcomes and that excellent psychotherapists produce more positive client outcomes. Mental health organizations, training programs, and psychotherapists may benefit from insights into how excellent psychotherapists optimize their therapeutic practice. This study details results from a consensual qualitative research investigation of personal and professio…
Ambivalent Sexism and Decent Work Among South Korean STEM University Women
This study applied the psychology of working theory to examine how ambivalent sexism predicts perceptions of decent work and occupational engagement via work volition and career adaptability among female science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) university students in South Korea ( N = 397). Results showed good fit for the measurement and structural models. Hostile sexism negatively affected work volition, which mediated its relati…
When Cultural Values Clash With Leadership Stereotypes: Asian Immigrant Psychologists’ Leadership Development
Asian immigrant psychologists may encounter unique challenges with leadership development and opportunities due to racial stereotypes, acculturation processes, and culturally bound implicit leadership prototypes, resulting in disproportionate underrepresentation in leadership roles in the United States. The present study explored the success and challenge stories of Asian immigrant psychologists in pursuit of their leadership development. Semi-st…
Using Yalom’s When Nietzsche Wept to Enhance Psychological Mindedness in Future Counselors
This study examined the effectiveness of a structured, literature-based intervention designed to enhance psychological mindedness among counselor candidates. Psychological mindedness , a core competency for mental health professionals, involves the capacity to understand one’s own internal processes as well as those of others, yet empirical interventions targeting its development remain limited. To address this gap, an experimental book reading a…
Development of the Multidimensional Inventory of Cultural Stress Measure for Hispanic/Latine Adolescents
The present study provides preliminary evidence for validity of the Multidimensional Inventory of Cultural Stress (MICS), a measure of cultural stress developed to expand existing conceptualizations of cultural stress. The participants were 309 Hispanic/Latine adolescents (60.2% female; M age = 15.30 years). Exploratory structural equation modeling (ESEM) revealed a four-factor solution: exclusionary political climate (i.e., perception of anti-im…
All Interactions are Inherently Cultured”: Evaluating Multicultural Case Conceptualization Skills in Clinical Supervision
Supervisors are responsible for evaluating whether supervisees demonstrate the professional competencies needed to provide culturally responsive mental health care. However, there is variability and challenges in evaluating related professional competencies within graduate training programs and practicum sites. Furthermore, supervisees and clinicians have demonstrated low performance in multicultural case conceptualization skills. This study aime…
Enacting the Values of the Society of Counseling Psychology: A Vision Statement
In this article, the incoming editorial team for The Counseling Psychologist ( TCP ) outline the vision for the journal and address their positionalities as a model of reflexive practice. The editorial team, comprising the Editor and Associate Editors, review the increasing call for psychology to be anti-racist, decolonial, and liberatory. The authors document the role the TCP can play in this endeavor and commit to TCP being an extension of the …
Validation of the Ethnic Identity Scale With Americans of Arab Heritage
The validity and reliability of the Ethnic Identity Scale (EIS) was examined for use with Arab Americans. Sample one consisted of 156 Arab Americans (99 female; 57 male) and sample two consisted of 166 Arab Americans (103 female, 51 male, 7 nonbinary). Participants completed an online questionnaire including measures of ethnic identity, socialization, self-esteem and social desirability. A confirmatory factor analysis supported the three-factor s…
Crisis Line Use Among Undergraduate Men of Color: A Qualitative Inquiry
Suicide deaths are rising in the United States, with some evidence that they are rising most rapidly among men of color. However, men of color in emerging adulthood face unique barriers to accessing life-saving services, such as the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline. In the present study, we examined factors that influence help-seeking for suicidal thoughts among undergraduate men of color with a reported history of suicidality. In this consensual …
Immigrant Young Adults of Color’s Racial Dialogues in Family: A Qualitative Exploration
Immigrant young adults of color and their family members from older generations often have a different frame of reference, acculturation, or racial consciousness, which may affect their conversations around race and racial issues. This qualitative study examined how immigrant young adults of color engage in racial dialogues with their older family members, how these discussions evolve depending on the group being discussed—such as those of the sa…
Black Men, Structural Racism, Cultural Barriers: Structural Equation Model With Cognitive-Behavioral Implications
There is a lack of empirical research that test theories regarding Black male mental health treatment disparities. The present study evaluates a theory that explains Black men’s beliefs, perceptions of specific structural racism, and cultural barriers to mental health (CBMH) treatment. Structural equation modeling ( N = 240) was used to estimate and compare primary and competing structural models. Maximum likelihood estimation with Satorra-Bentle…
The Ancestors are Pleased: The Scholarly and Mentoring Contributions of Suzette Speight
For some, social justice is a value. For others, it is an action verb and how they enact their values daily. For Dr. Suzette Speight, social justice was core to who she was, which was evident through her many scholarly contributions to counseling psychology, Black psychology, and beyond, through her mentoring and leadership, and through her impact on countless students, peers, and community members. If you knew Suzette, you know she did not hold …
Ka Bogso: The 5Rs Model of Posttraumatic Growth for Somali Refugee Women
People make sense of healing and growth through their cultural lenses. This study discusses the posttraumatic growth of Somali refugee women in the aftermath of traumatic events. Specifically, the study incorporates the Somali term ka bogso (being healed toward psychological wholesomeness) that emerges in cultural and spiritual response to life’s adversities into the 5Rs posttraumatic growth model for Somali refugee women. Grounded in humanizing …
Introduction to the Special Issue “Embracing Diversity & Flourishing: The Intersection of Multiculturalism & Positive Psychology in Counseling Psychology”
This serves as an introduction to the special issue Embracing Diversity & Flourishing: The Intersection of Multiculturalism and Positive Psychology in Counseling Psychology . Five articles are included in the special issue, with each including unique attention to how these subfields of counseling psychology, and other fields, are meaningfully integrated to better understand human experiences. The articles include theoretical work, quantitative st…
The Relationship Between Black Women’s Gendered Racial Socialization, Self-Evaluation, and Subjective Well-Being
A multiculturally inclusive positive psychology must account for the intersectional experiences of Black women and culturally specific factors that may contribute to their well-being. With a sample of 331 self-identified Black women, the present study investigated the potential mediating role of self-efficacy and self-worth in the relationship between a type of gendered racial socialization messaging (i.e., gendered racial pride) and three indica…
A Review and Guide to Structural Equation Modeling in Counseling Psychology Research
Structural equation modeling (SEM) is a sophisticated form of quantitative analysis that allows researchers to examine complex relationships between latent variables while accounting for measurement error. Prior reviews of SEM studies in psychology and its subdisciplines found numerous methodological problems in application that either prevented adequate evaluation of the study or brought its results into question. We examined the state of the re…
What is Humility Good For? A Meta-Analysis of Humility, Health, and Well-Being
Humility, the organizing virtue of multicultural frameworks in counseling psychology, has traditionally been framed to be positively associated with health and well-being and negatively associated with mental illness. Despite lauded benefits, however, scholars have cautioned that humility may not always be of benefit. To examine these associations, we conducted a meta-analysis to clarify the magnitude of the associations between humility and phys…
Cultural Examination of the Self-Compassion Scale in South Korean Community-Based Adults
Despite its widespread therapeutic use, the evaluation of self-compassion remains controversial. The Self-Compassion Scale (SCS) was proposed with three components on a bipolar continuum, ranging from compassionate self-responding (CS), including self-kindness, common humanity, and mindfulness, to uncompassionate self-responding (UCS), including self-judgment, isolation, and over-identification. However, recent evidence conflicts with this 6-fact…
The Relationship Between Clients’ Perceptions of Therapists’ Cultural Comfort and Clients’ Hope
Cultural comfort, a component of multicultural orientation (MCO), remains underexplored in relation to client variables such as hope. A culturally comfortable therapist could help clients feel hopeful about reaching therapeutic goals. Being comfortable when discussing culture in treatment could help a client feel more agency and see paths to change with regard to all aspects of their identity. Therefore, we examined the relationship between cultu…
Influence of College STEM Program Participation on Persistence Among First-Generation Engineering Students
Using data from 473 first-generation college students (FGCS) in engineering, the study tested a social cognitive career theory (SCCT) model of persistence and examines model invariance by participation in college science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) programs. Data from two survey waves collected 1 year apart were analyzed with structural equation modeling. Results supported a temporal pathway from engineering self-efficacy to …
Racism is Not Getting Worse, It’s Getting Filmed”: Investigating Online Vicarious Racism Among Black Students
In today’s increasingly digital world, the phenomenon of vicarious racism—indirect exposure to racist acts directed at others—has become a significant concern, particularly among Black college students. The COVID-19 pandemic has amplified the role of social media as a primary platform for witnessing racial discrimination, given the notable increase in virtual communication during this period. Black college students may be especially vulnerable to…
Impact of Intergroup Dialogue on LGBTQ+ and Non-LGBTQ+ Individuals in South Korea
Prejudice and discrimination against sexual and gender minorities contribute to mental health challenges. Intergroup dialogue (IGD) is a validated intervention for mitigating the conflicts. This 7-week IGD program aimed to diminish sociocultural prejudice against LGBTQ+ individuals and assess its effectiveness. Findings revealed improved cultural empathy and critical consciousness in both LGBTQ+ and non-LGBTQ+ groups. Non-LGBTQ+ participants exhi…
Perinatal Race-Related Stressors for Black Women: A Delphi Study
Black women’s maternal mental health has emerged as a public health issue with rising numbers of health disparities, yet mental health researchers have been slow to link these topics empirically to mental health practices. In this study, the authors used Delphi methodology to capture Black women’s maternal mental health concerns through the lens of interdisciplinary mental health professionals. The Delphi study was conducted in three phases, each…
A Guide to Conducting Consensual Qualitative Research
The authors discuss the components of consensual qualitative research (CQR) using open-ended questions to gather data, using words to describe phenomena, studying a few cases intensively, recognizing the importance of context, using an inductive analytic process, using a team and making decisions by consensus, using auditors, and verifying results by systematically checking against the raw data. The three steps for conducting CQR are developing a…
Scale Development Research: A Content Analysis and Recommendations for Best Practices
The authors conducted a content analysis on new scale development articles appearing in the Journal of Counseling Psychology during 10 years (1995 to 2004). The authors analyze and discuss characteristics of the exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis procedures in these scale development studies with respect to sample characteristics, factorability, extraction methods, rotation methods, item deletion or retention, factor retention, and mode…
Racism and Psychological and Emotional Injury: Recognizing and Assessing Race-Based Traumatic Stress
The purpose of this article is to discuss the psychological and emotional effects of racism on people of Color. Psychological models and research on racism, discrimination, stress, and trauma will be integrated to promote a model to be used to understand, recognize, and assess race-based traumatic stress to aid counseling and psychological assessment, research, and training
A Brief Guide to Structural Equation Modeling
To complement recent articles in this journal on structural equation modeling (SEM) practice and principles by Martens and by Quintana and Maxwell, respectively, the authors offer a consumer’s guide to SEM. Using an example derived from theory and research on vocational psychology, the authors outline six steps in SEM: model specification, identification, data preparation and screening, estimation, evaluation of fit, and modification. In addition…
Qualitative Research Designs: Selection and Implementation
Counseling psychologists face many approaches from which to choose when they conduct a qualitative research study. This article focuses on the processes of selecting, contrasting, and implementing five different qualitative approaches. Based on an extended example related to test interpretation by counselors, clients, and communities, this article provides a detailed discussion about five qualitative approaches- narrative research; case study res…
Position Paper: Cross-Cultural Counseling Competencies
Multicultural Competence, Social Justice, and Counseling Psychology: Expanding Our Roles
The construct of multicultural competence has gained much currency in the counseling psychology literature. This article provides a critique of the multicultural counseling competencies and argues that counseling psychology's operationalization of multicultural competence must be grounded in a commitment to social justice. Such a commitment necessitates an expansion of our professional activities beyond counseling and psychotherapy. While counsel…
From Passive Acceptance to Active Commitment: A Model of Feminist Identity Development for Women
This article presents a model of feminist identity development for women. The model is derived, in part, from Cross's (1971) theory of Black identity development and is based on the premise that women who live in contemporary society must first acknowledge, then struggle with, and repeatedly work through their feelings about the prejudice and discrimination they experience as women in order to achieve authentic and positive feminist identity. The…
Summarizing 25 Years of Research on Men's Gender Role Conflict Using the Gender Role Conflict Scale: New Research Paradigms and Clinical Implications
This article reviews 232 empirical studies that used the Gender Role Conflict Scale (GRCS) over the past 25 years (1982-2007). The article introduces the gender role conflict (GRC) construct using past definitions and theoretical models. The research findings for diverse men are summarized and studies related to men's intrapersonal, interpersonal, and therapeutic lives are analyzed. The empirical support, criticism, and challenges to the gender r…
Handling Item-Level Missing Data: Simpler Is Just as Good
The topic of missing data has been receiving increasing attention, with calls to apply advanced methods of handling missingness to counseling psychology research. The present study sought to assess whether advanced methods of handling item-level missing data performed equivalently to simpler methods in designs similar to those counseling psychologists typically engage in. Results of an initial preliminary analysis, an analysis using real-world da…
Training Counseling Psychologists as Social Justice Agents: Feminist and Multicultural Principles in Action
Despite recent calls for counseling psychology to embrace social justice-oriented work, there has been little discussion about what such work actually looks like. The first part of this article derives a set of principles from feminist and multicultural counseling theories that counseling psychologists should consider as they engage in social justice work. These include (a) ongoing self-examination,(b) sharing power, (c) giving voice, (d) facilit…
Toward a Psychological Framework of Radical Healing in Communities of Color
Advancing beyond individual-level approaches to coping with racial trauma, we introduce a new psychological framework of radical healing for People of Color and Indigenous individuals (POCI) in the United States. We begin by providing a context of race and racism in the United States and its consequences for the overall well-being of POCI. We build on existing frameworks rooted in social justice education and activism and describe a form of heali…
The Transracial Adoption Paradox: History, Research, and Counseling Implications of Cultural Socialization
The number of transracial adoptions in the United States, particularly international adoptions, is increasing annually. Counseling psychology as a profession, however, is a relatively silent voice in the research on and practice of transracial adoption. This article presents an overview of the history and research on transracial adoption to inform counseling psychologists of the set of racial and ethnic challenges and opportunities that transraci…
Toward a Theoretical Explanation of the Effects of Race on Counseling A Black and White Model
Cycles of Psychological Nigrescence
This article is an attempt to expand the descriptive characteristics of the Cross model by discussing a theory of psychological Nigrescence that hypothesizes the changes in racial identity that a Black person can experience at various points in the life-cycle process. In this discussion, I will attempt to describe how various stages of racial identity are manifest at three periods of life: late adolescence/early adulthood, middle adulthood, and l…
Supervision: A Conceptual Model
Revisioning Sexual Minority Identity Formation: A New Model of Lesbian Identity and its Implications for Counseling and Research
This article describes a new, inclusive model of lesbian identity formation. A rationale for the model is presented, which includes a review of relevant literature in lesbian/gay identity, racial/ethnic identity, and gender issues related to identity development. Three case studies are presented to elucidate the applications of the model to counseling, and the article concludes with a discussion of the implications of the model for research
Sexual Objectification of Women: Advances to Theory and Research 1ψ7
Objectification theory provides an important framework for understanding, researching, and intervening to improve women’s lives in a sociocultural context that sexually objectifies the female body and equates a woman’s worth with her body’s appearance and sexual functions. The purpose of this Major Contribution is to advance theory, research, practice, and training related to the sexual objectification of women. The purpose of this article is to …
Racist Incident–Based Trauma
Racist incidents are potentially traumatizing forms of victimization that may lead to increased psychiatric and psychophysiological symptoms in targets. The magnitude of the problem of racist incidents in the United States is difficult to estimate; however, data from several sources permit the inference that the prevalence of racist incidents, particularly among people of color, is high. This article (a) distinguishes traumatic stress from nontra…
Internalized Heterosexism: Measurement, Psychosocial Correlates, and Research Directions
This article provides an integrated critical review of the literature on internalized heterosexism/internalized homophobia (IH), its measurement, and its psychosocial correlates. It describes the psychometric properties of six published measures used to operationalize the construct of IH. It also critically reviews empirical studies on correlates of IH in the areas of sexual identity formation and the coming-out process; mental, psychosocial, and…
Multidimensional Facets of Cultural Competence
Calls for incorporating cultural competence in psychology have been hindered for a number of reasons: belief in the universality of psychological laws and theories, the invisibility of monocultural policies and practices, differences over defining cultural competence, and the lack of a conceptual framework for organizing its multifaceted dimensions. A proposed multidimensional model of cultural competence (MDCC) incorporates three primary dimensi…
Ain’t I a Woman: Perceived Gendered Racial Microaggressions Experienced by Black Women
This study explored the experience of gendered racial microaggressions (i.e., subtle and everyday verbal, behavioral, and environmental expressions of oppression based on the intersection of one’s race and gender) among Black women at a predominantly White university. A total of 17 undergraduate, graduate, and professional students participated in one of two semistructured focus group discussions. Using dimensional analysis, three core gendered r…
Empathic: An Unappreciated Way of Being
It is my thesis in this paper that we should re-examine and re-evaluate that very special way of being with another person which has been called empathic. I believe we tend to give too little consideration to an element which is extremely important both for the understanding of personality dynamics and for effecting changes in personality and behavior. It is one of the most delicate and powerful ways we have of using ourselves. In spite of all th…
Identity, Stress, and Resilience in Lesbians, Gay Men, and Bisexuals of Color
The author addresses two issues raised in Moradi, DeBlaere, and Huang's Major Contribution to this issue: the intersection of racial/ethnic and lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) identities and the question of stress and resilience. The author expands on Moradi et al.'s work, hoping to encourage further research. On the intersection of identities, the author notes that LGB identities among people of color have been construed as different from the i…
A Concomitant Examination of the Relations of Perceived Racist and Sexist Events to Psychological Distress for African American Women
Conceptualizations of the role of racism and sexism in African American women's lives suggest that racism and sexism may have unique and interactive links to psychological distress. Path analysis was used to examine concomitantly these links for a sample of 133 African American university and community women. Respondents'·self-reported experiences of perceived racist and sexist events and psychological distress were gathered. Results indicated th…
Some Revised Questions for Vocational Psychology
A Critical Analysis
Vocational Development Theory in 1988: How Will It Come About
Reply to Charles F. Warnath: The service agency consumer views the internship in counseling psychology
Responsibility for Therapy: Counselor, Client, or Who
Is Client Centered Theory Sufficient
Peer Reviewed
Rejoinder and Commentary
"Critique of "A Current View of Client-Centered or Relationship Therapy: Today Psychotherapy, Tomorrow the World
Relationship Therapy: Often Necessary But Usually Insufficient
A Premature Truce: The Deradicalization of Client-Centered Therapy
In Black and white
Institutional Change and Individual Change: Innovation and Counseling
A Rebuttal in Gratitude
Occupational Classification
Black - White Campus and the Function of Counseling
Remarks on Dr. Shoben's "The Campus Community" and "The Climate of Protest
"Counselee Participation in Test Selection" and Beyond: Jim Drasgow Replies to Kirk
On the Responsibility of Writers about Responsibility
Some Notes on Behavior Theory, Behavior Therapy and Behavioral Counseling
The Intentional Individual: A Process-Outcome View of Behavioral Psychology
Behavioral Counseling: Role Definition and Professional Training
Response to Behavioral Counseling
The Social Responsibility of Psychology
Purpose is Alive and Well and Living in The Empty Organism
Reaction to Behavioral Counseling: A Contemporary Overview