班级团体心理辅导对大学新生教育的影响研究

应用团体成员主观评估量表、团体活动反馈表、团体组员关系评价表对288名新生参与班级心理辅导的效果进行测量,研究班级团体心理辅导对高校新生的影响。结果显示大学新生在参加团体辅导后自我评估有显著提高。同时,大学新生对班级团体辅导的反馈良好,实施过程气氛融洽。因而得出结论:班级团体辅导有利于加速高校新生适应大学生活,促进健康班级建设,值得在新生教育中推广。     

团体辅导在大学新生班级管理中的应用

大学生进入大学之后,在各个方面都表现出不适应的情况,大学生新进入大学,大学的环境、学习方式和人际交往都与之前的校园环境和人际交往有所不同,为了使学生更快的适应大学的生活,要努力的调整大学生的这种不适应。因此,研究者通过实践的观察得出,大学新生班级团体辅导对他们在适应大学生活,学习人际交往上有着很大的帮助。     

团体心理辅导在改善大学新生人际关系中的应用

本文基于提高大学新生人际关系设计了大学新生团体心理辅导方案,然后以大连海洋大学理学院2013级110名学生为样本,团体心理辅导结束后,实验组在交谈、交际与交友、待人接物、与异性朋友交往等方面,较团体心理辅导前有显著差异,而控制组没有显著差异。得出结论:该团体心理辅导对大学新生人际关系具有积极促进作用。     

需求理论下高职班级凝聚力培养途径研究

班级是学校联系学生的桥梁,也是学生学习活动的平台。培养凝聚力强、团结友爱的班集体有利于学生身心健康和校园和谐。本文从"学生自身需求"的角度着手,指出班级凝聚力的增强有利于满足学生的需求,并且根据班级凝聚力欠缺的原因寻找对策,帮助学生成长成才。     

农村大学新生感觉寻求人格特质研究

采用大学生感觉寻求问卷,以随机取样研究的方式,在吉林省某一般本科农业高校抽取394名在校大学新生为调查对象进行问卷调查。结果表明,农村生源的大学新生的感觉寻求总分显著低于来自城市的大学新生;男生的感觉寻求水平、兴奋与冒险程度显著高于女生;农村生源的大学新生感觉寻求人格特质较城市生源的大学新生水平更低。建议通过团体辅导、素质拓展训练提高农村生源大学新生的感觉寻求水平。     

论团体心理辅导在大学新生入学教育中的作用

团体心理辅导是高校大学生心理健康教育的重要途径。在新生入学教育中运用团体辅导,可以有效改善大学生心理健康水平,提高大学生的心理素质。本文对比团体辅导前后,症状自评量表、团体活动自我评估表等反应的测试结果,对团体心理辅导在大学新生入学教育中的作用展开质的分析。     

论高校班级建设中团体心理辅导的运用

团体心理辅导是在团体的情境下进行的一种心理辅导形式。随着教育事业的不断发展,高校的管理和建设对高校的教师提出了更高的要求。高校班级建设的难度可以说是越来越大,充分利用团体心理辅导这个有效手段来进行班级管理,是新时期改进和加强高校班级建设的新思路。本文首先对团体心理辅导理论进行概述,然后探讨了团体心理辅导在班级建设中的作用。     

班级凝聚力的培养从挖掘每个教育契机开始——班主任教育个案

本文从班主任班级教育工作的实际事例出发,阐述了由班级内部两位女生之间的矛盾引起的班级体之间的矛盾甚至是班级体与家长的矛盾这一教育个案。重点分析了笔者在此次事件的过程中作为一名班主任是如何处理与解决的,同时在很大程度上增强了班级体的凝聚力与向心力。明确了教育工作者要抓住班级教育活动中的每个契机进行班级团队的凝聚力建设,以及班级凝聚力建设的重要性。     

浅谈非正式组织在大学班级管理中的重要性

非正式组织是人们在共同的工作过程中自然形成的以感情、喜好等情绪为基础的松散的、没有正式规定的群体。这些群体不受正式组织的行政部门和管理层次等的限制,也没有明确规定的正式结构。在一个部门或者团体里一定有非正式组织的存在,同样,大学班级作为一个团体,一定会有一个或者几个非正式组织的存在,这些非正式组织对班级日常管理有重要影响,班级辅导员如果没有重视这些组织的存在和作用将不利于班级管理。     

利用心理辅导开展大学生思想政治教育的方法探讨

大学生心理问题已经成为社会普遍关注的问题。利用心理辅导的方法,既可以增强高校思想政治教育的科学性,同时也有利于高校心理辅导工作的健康发展。高校辅导员可以采用以下方式帮助学生初步形成班级凝聚力,解决学生普遍困惑的问题,促进学生成长和成才。团体心理辅导、班级心理辅导、心理辅导技术引入大学生主题班会等方式。     

Connecting the dots: implementing and evaluating a network intervention to foster scientific collaboration and productivity

This article presents the design and implementation of a network intervention to foster scientific collaboration at a research university, and describes an experimental framework for rigorous evaluation of the intervention’s impact. Based on social network analysis of publication and grant data, an innovative type of research funding program was developed as a form of alteration of the university’s collaboration network. The intervention consisted in identifying research communities in the network and creating a new collaborative relation between pairs of unconnected researchers in selected communities. The new collaboration was created to maximally increase the overall cohesion of the target research community. In order to evaluate the impact of the program, we designed a randomized experiment with treatment and control communities based on the Rubin Causal Model approach. The paper describes the intervention design, reports findings from the program implementation, and discusses the statistical framework for future evaluation of the intervention.     

Mental health services: use and disparity among diverse college students

OBJECTIVE: In this empirical study, the authors examined (1) actual use of counseling for emotional problems and (2) the assumptions that ethnicity, sex, social class, and psychological distress are associated with disparities in use of counseling. PARTICIPANTS: Participants were 1,773 diverse undergraduate students at an urban university. METHODS: The authors collected data via self-administered questionnaires between 1999 and 2005; they used a cross-sectional correlational research design, including analysis of variance statistical procedures. RESULTS: Students' level of counseling use (10%) was similar to that estimated for a national college sample. Students reporting higher levels of distress were more likely to use counseling; however, more than three-fourths of students who reported clinically significant levels of distress had not received counseling. CONCLUSIONS: The authors observed no disparities in use of mental health services in terms of sex, ethnicity, and socioeconomic status.     

In Touch With People,not Paper: An Interview With Doug Sotheren

Doug Sotheren has been conducting well‐regarded training courses in relationship counseling for over 25 years, outside a university setting. In conversation with his former trainee Cathy Zervos, he presents his personal philosophy of counsellor training, emphasising the need for trainees to be ‘in touch with people’ rather than with theory. His whole course is experiential and based on the concept that training (including the way the co‐trainers handle their own relationship in front of the group) should model the counselling process itself. He talks about his way of selecting students, and his views on counselling students out of the course where necessary. A long‐serving member of the AAMFC and former editor of their newsletter, Sotheren praises the AAMFC for requiring demonstrated competence in its members.     

A Study of Clinical Change in Individual Career Counseling

This study examined the clinical significance of career counseling effects. Participants were 111 university students (83% women) who participated in individual career counseling sessions at their university. All participants completed the French version of the Outcome Questionnaire–30.2 (OQ‐30.2; Lambert, Finch, Okiishi, & Burlingame, 2005) immediately before the 1st session (pretest) and at the beginning of the last session (posttest). The OQ‐30.2 assesses 3 client life domains: subjective discomfort, problems in interpersonal relationships, and problems in social role satisfaction. Using Jacobson and Truax’s (1991) statistical approach to assessing clinical change, the authors compared clients’ pretest OQ‐30.2 scores with their posttest scores. Among clients with a “dysfunctional” score (n = 59) at the study’s inception, 34% recovered and 14% improved, whereas 41% of clients with functional scores (n = 52) at the study’s inception improved. The results suggest that individual career counseling can make a difference in the lives of many clients; they also highlight the importance of further outcome research that accounts for possible variability in clients’ responses to career counseling.     

Ausgrenzung,Klassenzusammenhalt, Kooperation und Selbstbehauptung. Eine quasi-experimentelle Untersuchung der personal-sozialen Kompetenzen bei Schüler/-innen mit einer erlebnispädagogischen Intervention

With a classic quasi-experimental design (two measuring points, treatment and control group) the two questionnaires have been raised in the 2nd/3rd school week and after the first quarter with the constructs “class cohesion” and “exclusion” and “cooperation” and “self-assertion”. The treatment took place in the fourth week of beginning secundary classes (Switzerland). After the treatment the students showed significantly less exclusion ambitions and a better class cohesion than the control group. This finding should take into account the disturbing variables which must be meaningfully interpreted. And with respect to the sample the treatment group was – compared to the German standard – either socially more competent or biased.     

Group Career Construction Counseling: A Mixed‐Methods Intervention Study With High School Students

This study investigated the value of group career construction counseling in a high school context. The author used purposive sampling to select participants who had sought career counseling. A mixed‐methods intervention study design was also used. Participants (N = 57) completed the Career Adapt‐Abilities Scale–South Africa (CAAS‐SA) before the 1st and after the 2nd intervention. The Career Interest Profile and the Maree Career Matrix were used to facilitate the intervention, and the CAAS‐SA was used to test the research hypotheses. The findings revealed that the boys’ and the girls’ career adaptability had improved meaningfully on all of the CAAS‐SA subscales. No gender‐based differences were found. However, differences were detected between both the boys’ and the girls’ pre‐ and posttest Control and Confidence subscale scores. The findings demonstrate the value of career construction counseling in group settings. More longitudinal research with diverse participants is needed.     

Identification and Integration of Career Theory: Students’ Perspectives on the Process

In many counseling programs, while students are learning about career theory, they may be tasked in a separate course with identifying a theoretical approach to counseling. This may result in a dichotomous situation in which students lack an understanding of the relationship between career theory and counseling theory. Career counselors have long recognized the artificial distinction between career counseling and general counseling. However, counselor education programs generally lag, and there is a dearth of literature regarding the process of identifying and integrating career theory and counseling theory. This phenomenological study examined 6 students’ perceptions of the process of career theory identification and integration. Analysis of in‐depth interviews yielded 5 major themes: theory identification and integration, perceptions of career counseling, resources, personal dimensions, and application across the life span. Findings of this study have the potential to inform counselor education pedagogy regarding career theory identification and its application to the counseling context.     

Mental Health Mobile Apps’ Instruction: Technology Adoption Theories Applied in a Mixed Methods Study of Counseling Faculty

This objective of this research was to determine factors influencing counselor educators’ behavioral intentions to teach counseling students about mental health mobile applications (MHMAs), factors influencing values of MHMAs as therapeutic tools, and to what extent counselor education programs are contributing to future counselors’ technological competence with regard to evaluating and integrating MHMAs. The conceptual basis was a theory triangulation approach using theories of technology use and acceptance and diffusion of innovations. Nine quantitative, two qualitative, and two mixed methods research questions served to guide the study. Participants were 132 faculty members from 99 university counseling programs. Participants completed an initial survey, an evaluation of an evidence-based mental health mobile application (app), and a postmeasure. Hierarchical multiple regression, analysis of covariance (ANCOVA), independent samples t-tests, and paired samples t-tests were used to analyze quantitative data. Results indicated that unified theory of acceptance and use of technology (UTAUT) variables along with anxiety/apprehension and ethical concerns are related to behavioral intentions to teach students about MHMAs. Semistructured video interviews were conducted and analyzed in the qualitative phase to add depth and explain quantitative findings. This study has implications for graduate counselor education programs and related accrediting agencies.     

Comparing the effectiveness of individual and group therapy for students with symptoms of anxiety and depression: A randomized pilot study

Abstract

Objective: To examine the effectiveness of individual versus group therapy for anxiety and depression among university students. Participants: Forty-one university students experiencing moderate to severe symptoms of anxiety and/or depression participated during one of three academic semesters from 2015 to 2016. Methods: Participants were randomly assigned to either 6-weeks of individual or group therapy and completed outcome measures at pre-and-post-treatment. Results: Significant reductions in both depression and anxiety scores were found across time, with no significant difference between group and individual therapy outcomes. Exploratory analysis of attitudes toward therapy found that while individual therapy was rated more favorably than group therapy overall, attitudes toward therapy became more favorable from pre to post-treatment for all participants. An interaction showed differences in attitudes toward individual and group therapy according to participants’ randomly assigned treatment. Conclusions: These findings support the increased usage of group therapy within university counseling centers, with implications for stepped care discussed.     

A women's support group for Asian international students

International students underuse counseling services, which are grounded in Western cultural values. The authors describe a support group for Asian international students that they launched at a large midwestern university to help students feel at ease with American university life, address homesickness, language problems, and academic and social stressors. Co-leaders created a safe and culturally sensitive atmosphere where the women could network, socialize, and address their issues. Group treatment offers many advantages over individual counseling and can enhance the health of international students.