A Content Analysis of Social Class in ACA Journals from 2000 to 2016

The Current State of Gerontological Counseling Research: A 26‐Year Content Analysis

“…To examine what the counseling profession has published on GC, as well as to prepare the profession to work with the growing number of older adult clients, we completed a 26‐year content analysis of GC scholarship. In recent years, several content analyses have emerged to examine and highlight critical issues facing the counseling profession, including male clients in counseling (Evans, 2013), traumatology (Webber, Kitzinger, Runte, Smith, & Mascari, 2017), multiculturalism (Arredondo, Rosen, Rice, Perez, & Tovar‐Gamero, 2005), counseling leadership (McKibben, Umstead, & Borders, 2017), social class (Clark, Cook, Nair, & Wojcik, 2018), disability (Woo, Goo, & Lee, 2016), and LGBTQ+ issues in qualitative research (Singh & Shelton, 2011). In light of a perceived dearth of research on older adults across journals in the counseling profession, an examination of conceptual and empirical research serves as a useful tool to locate gaps in the counseling profession and opportunities.…”

Subjective and objective socieoeconomic status and the impact on overall variance in clinical outcomes

“…This study supports findings that subjective SES is more sensitive to clinical mental health outcomes compared to objective SES (Präg, Mills, & Wittek, ). In a meta‐analysis of counselling journals and SES, income was the most commonly used measure (Clark, Cook, Nair, & Wojcik, ). This study begins to fill the gap of subjective SES measures in a counselling setting.…”

Counseling Military Populations: A Content Analysis of Counseling Journals From 1998 to 2018

“…Journal selection for content analysis is often based on readership and topic, such as reviewing a prevalent topic in a sample of the profession's publication outlets with the most readership (e.g., Webber et al, 2017) or concentrating on journals that have thematic similarity with the research topic (e.g., Clark et al, 2018). Given our objective to comprehensively understand how counseling professionals have researched the military in totality, we included 23 journals in our search: the Journal of Counseling & Development, all 20 journals of the ACA divisions, the Journal of Counselor Leadership and Advocacy, and The Professional Counselor.…”

“…Previous researchers have used content analysis as a method to determine the current state of literature of a topic. In counseling scholarship, content analysis was used to review research trends of trauma (Webber et al, 2017), social class (Clark et al, 2018;Cook et al, 2019), and leadership (McKibben et al, 2017). The purpose of the current study was to explore the trends of military research in the counseling profession literature.…”