Influxes of Arab immigrants and refugees have contributed to the growth of the Arab American population. Migration can trigger feelings of alienation and isolation, identity confusion, and loss of meaning. This article uses an existential framework to explore this population's culture and pre‐ and postmigration stressors and to better conceptualize their needs.
College counselors work collaboratively with professionals in a variety of disciplines in higher education to coordinate gatekeeper training to prepare university community members to recognize and refer students in mental distress to support services. This article describes the cross-validation of scores on the Mental Distress Response Scale (MDRS), a questionnaire for appraising university community members' responses to encountering a student in mental distress, with a sample of faculty members. A confirmatory factor analysis revealed the dimensions of the MDRS were estimated adequately. Results also revealed demographic differences in faculty members' responses to encountering a student in mental distress. The MDRS has implications for augmenting the outreach efforts of college counselors. For example, the MDRS has potential utility for enhancing campus-wide mental health screening efforts. The MDRS also has implications for supporting psychoeducation efforts, including gatekeeper training workshops, for professional counselors practicing in college settings.
Counseling students who identify as Black, Indigenous, or people of color (BIPOC) may experience discrimination that negatively affects their overall wellness. This quantitative study assessed wellness, burnout, and discrimination for 105 graduate‐level BIPOC counseling students. Results showed a relationship between discrimination and wellness.
Los estudiantes en programas de consejería que se identifican como personas negras, indígenas o de color (BIPOC, por sus siglas en inglés) pueden sufrir discriminación que afecte a su bienestar general de forma negativa. Este estudio cuantitativo evaluó el bienestar, agotamiento y discriminación en 105 estudiantes universitarios BIPOC en programas de grado de consejería. Los resultados mostraron una relación entre la discriminación y el bienestar.
Counselor educators often serve in leadership roles in professional organizations. These leadership activities often begin as graduate students through leadership development programs (e.g., Emerging Leaders) within professional counseling organizations. This basic interpretive qualitative study explored leadership development experiences of 24 counselor education doctoral students yielding themes informing leadership development.
K E Y W O R D S counselor education, doctoral students, inclusion, leadershipIn order for the counseling profession to survive, counselors and counselor educators must actively shape the roles and functions of counselors through strong professional leadership (Donigian, 1974). In response to this need, to facilitate leadership development, counselor education (CES) doctoral programs train doctoral students in leadership models and leadership development related to professional organizations (CACREP, 2016) and require that students must demonstrate ability to navigate various professional roles effectively and ethically (CACREP, 2016). Counselor educators often serve in leadership roles in the counseling community through involvement in professional organizations, or community advocacy. These leadership activities begin during graduate programs and develop further throughout a career (Hays et al., 2021;Woo et al., 2016). Despite this expectation, there is a lack of continuity in best practices around leadership training within the field (Lockard et al., 2014).Current literature suggests professional identity development connects with leadership development for counselors and counselor educators (Gibson, 2016;Luke & Goodrich, 2010;Woo et al., 2016). Sweeney (2012) emphasized that counselors have the capacity for leadership development in all settings and at all levels, defining leadership in counseling as "actions by individuals in professional counseling that contribute to the realization of our individual and collective capacity to serve others competently, ethically, and justly as helping professionals" (p.5). For doctoral
The purpose of this quantitative study was to investigate the relationship between professional counselors’ general multicultural competence and negative attitudes held toward Arab Americans. Participants (N = 124) completed a survey, and a series of correlational, stepwise, and multiple regression analyses was conducted. Results indicated that counselors displayed higher levels of multicultural awareness than of multicultural knowledge. Furthermore, general multicultural awareness and specific knowledge of Arabs related significantly to negative attitudes held toward Arabs.El propósito de este estudio cuantitativo fue investigar la relación entre la competencia multicultural general de consejeros profesionales y las actitudes negativas mantenidas hacia personas estadounidenses de origen árabe. Los participantes (N = 124) completaron una encuesta, y se llevó a cabo una serie de análisis correlacionales, por pasos y de regresión múltiple. Los resultados indicaron que los consejeros mostraron niveles de conciencia multicultural mayores que los niveles de conocimiento multicultural. Además, la conciencia multicultural general y el conocimiento específico acerca de las personas árabes estuvieron significativamente relacionados con actitudes negativas mantenidas hacia personas árabes.
Mental health professionals who identify as immigrants encounter personal and professional barriers that can impact overall wellbeing. The current study conducted a survey of 108 licensed mental health professionals who identify as immigrants practicing in the United States. The survey included demographics as well as assessments of burnout, social support, and migratory grief and loss. The results of this study highlighted that a combination of higher migratory grief and lower perceived social support significantly predicted higher levels of burnout in mental health professionals. Implications for mental health programs, supervisors, and mentors and suggestions for future research are provided.
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