This study investigated the relationships among personality variables, counseling expectations, and help‐seeking attitudes. Participants (N = 411) completed the Revised NEO (Neuroticism, Extraversion, Openness to New Experiences) Personality Inventory (Costa & McCrae, 1992), the Expectations About Counseling Questionnaire‐Brief Form (Tinsley, 1982), and the Attitudes Toward Seeking Professional Psychological Help scale (Fischer & Turner, 1970). Results indicate that personality factors are related to help‐seeking attitudes and these relationships are moderated by expectations about counseling.
The purpose of this study was to gain firsthand qualitative information about the experience of self-injurious behavior (SIB) by asking the 79 participants to describe their experiences before, during, and after SIB. Students with a history of SIB were separated into two groups: those students who self-injured only once and those who had harmed themselves multiple times. The most common experiences for both groups directly before SIB were feeling depressed, angry, and out of control, but the two groups reported different experiences during and after SIB.
races, religions, and other social groupings. Except for the fact that the Jews obviously do not constitute a race (for race is a biological designation), the Jews are not just a religious faith, even though they are that; and they are not just a nation, even though they are that too, according to definitions of the term "nation." The problem is usually resolved by using the term "people" instead of either "faith" or "nation." (1991, p. 9; italics in original) An important article in the field of psychology by Sue, Arredondo, and McDavis (1992) discussed ethical standards for the multicultural training of counselors. These authors defined competency as awareness of personal biases, knowledge of other cultures, and the use of culture-appropriate interventions in therapy. Sue et al. stated that "multiculturalism is inclusive of all persons and groups" (p. 81). However, it seems that at least one group has been left out. In order to investigate the contention that Jews are not included in multicultural and cross-cultural discussions, Weinrach (2002) examined textbooks on multicultural counseling used for counselor preparation. After identifying several books published between 1995 and 2000 whose primary focus was on multicultural/diversity-sensitive counseling and whose titles included any of the words culture/cultural/transcultural, diverse/diversity, ethnic/ethnicity, multicultural/multiculturalism, pluralism, prejudice, and race/racial/racism/interracial, Weinrach searched the index of these books for the following key words-anti-Semitism or Jew/Jews/Jewish/Judaism. The results of this search indicated of the 43 textbooks analyzed, 27 had neither an entry for anti-Semitism nor for Jew/Jews/Jewish/Judaism.
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