Internationalizing counselling: A Southeast Asian perspective

Duan, Changming; Nilsson, Johanna; Wang, Chiachih D. C.; Debernardi, Nicholas R.; Klevens, Carissa; Tallent, Casey

doi:10.1080/09515070.2011.558253

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“…Yip's argument is also in line with a qualitative study by Duan et al (2011) whose work explored eight Asian counsellors' views on their perception of applying U.S. counselling models to Asian societies. The main findings from this study indicated that the participants found an application of their trained Western counselling intervention to their counselling practice with local clients problematic, largely due to its individualistic focus.…”

Section: The Indigenisation Movement Of Counselling In Non-western Culturesmentioning

confidence: 64%

“…Undeniably, these Western inputs were a great help in establishing and developing the field of psychology and counselling in these Asian countries (Duan et al, 2011). Historically, Western psychology has followed in the footsteps of natural science with an emphasis on objectivity, neutrality, and generalizability (Christopher, 2006).…”

Section: The Indigenisation Movement Of Counselling In Non-western Culturesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Moreover, in the critique of the dominance of Western psychology on Asian regions, several expressions, such as "cultural imperialism", "the colonialisation of the mind", "intellectual domination", "Western ethnocentrism", and "global monoculturalism" have been introduced (Duan et al, 2011;Ho, 1998). In contrast, the movement towards the indigenisation is referred to as "a spirit of nationalism and academic anticolonialism" (Hwang, 2005, p. 83).…”

Section: The Indigenisation Movement Of Counselling In Non-western Culturesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Practise What you Preach: Counsellors’ Experience of Practising Buddhist Counselling in Thailand

Srichannil

Prior

2013

Int J Adv Counselling

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This thesis is concerned with an exploration of counsellors' and clients' lived experiences of Buddhist Counselling, an indigenous Buddhist-based counselling approach in Thailand. Over the past decade, Buddhist Counselling has received a growing interest from Thai counselling trainees and practitioners, and it has also expanded to serve Thai people in various settings.Research on Buddhist Counselling is very limited and most of the existing studies in the field have focused on measuring the effectiveness of the approach. While these studies have consistently indicated the positive effects of Buddhist Counselling on psychological improvement across several population groups, the significant questions of how Buddhist Counselling brings about such outcome and how it is experienced are still largely unanswered. Moreover, existing research is concentrated much more on clients' views than counsellors' views, although counsellors' views of their counselling practice can also serve as a knowledge base of the field. This thesis thus sets out to contribute to rectifying this omission by exploring Buddhist Counselling from the perspectives of both counsellors and clients.The thesis is based on two qualitative studies. The first study addressed Buddhist Counselling from the perspective of five counsellors through a focus group and semistructured interviews. The second study explored Buddhist Counselling from the perspective of three clients, using two semi-structured interviews with each of them. All data received were analysed using interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA).The study reveals counsellors' and clients' overall positive experience of engaging in Buddhist Counselling. Central to the accounts of the counsellors are the following perceptions: that their practice of Buddhist Counselling is culturally congruent with the existing values and beliefs of both themselves and their clients; that their personal and professional congruence is key to their therapeutic efficacy; and that they enhance such congruence through their application of Buddhist ideas and practices in their daily lives. Key to the clients' accounts is their emphasis on the significant roles of the counsellors' Buddhist ideas and personal qualities, and of their religious practices in facilitating healing and change. Key shared findings from both studies reveal that the participants' accounts of their cultural background and their experiences of Buddhist Counselling are intertwined. Adopting hermeneutics to address this intertwinement, I reveal the cultural and moral dimensions underlying the practice of Buddhist Counselling. Based on such revelation, I suggest that Buddhist Counselling in particular, as well as psychotherapy in general, should be better understood as a historically situated, culturally bound, and morally constituted activity of people who are concerned with improving the quality of their lives and their community, rather than the transcultural and merely relational work of morally-neutral practitioners.

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Section: The Indigenisation Movement Of Counselling In Non-western Culturesmentioning

confidence: 64%

Section: The Indigenisation Movement Of Counselling In Non-western Culturesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: The Indigenisation Movement Of Counselling In Non-western Culturesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Practise What you Preach: Counsellors’ Experience of Practising Buddhist Counselling in Thailand

Srichannil

Prior

2013

Int J Adv Counselling

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“…For example, the International Association of Applied Psychology established the Division of Counseling Psychology in 2002 with the primary purpose of generating cross-cultural communication between counseling psychologists and furthering efforts to internationalize counseling psychology (Leong & Savickas, 2007). In 2008, the first International Conference of Counseling Psychology was held to provide opportunities for cross-cultural dialogue and research (Duan et al, 2011). Many of these endeavors emerged from leadership within the American Psychological Association (APA), specifically Division 17 presidents, who called for more international perspectives to be incorporated into the teaching and practice of counseling psychology (Pieterse, Fang, & Evans, 2011).…”

Section: A Social Network Analysis Of International Collaboration In mentioning

confidence: 99%

A Social Network Analysis of International Collaboration in Counseling Psychology

Kivlighan

Adams

Deng

et al. 2018

The Counseling Psychologist

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Over the past two decades, counseling psychology has emerged as an international discipline. Despite efforts to internationalize counseling psychology and increase cross-cultural relationships, few studies have considered international collaboration on scientific scholarship as a metric or factor of internationalization. Therefore, using social network analyses, we tested the occurrence and patterns of collaborations between authors from different countries on published studies in the Journal of Counseling Psychology and The Counseling Psychologist from 2005 to 2015. Results indicated that a small proportion of possible international collaborations existed, as measured by network density, and the majority of collaborations involved authors affiliated with institutions in the United States. However, international collaboration significantly increased over time, as measured by the density of the network. Our findings are consistent with previous research suggesting a lack of cross-national scholarship in counseling psychology and identify global areas for further cross-cultural development.

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“…This experience rings true for gifted students in Singapore. More specifically, parents have an important influence on the development of perfectionism in the Chinese student for whom high achievement or success is never simply an accomplishment meaningful only to the individual but also to his or her family and community (Duan et al, 2011; Fong and Yuen, 2014).…”

Section: Singaporementioning

confidence: 99%

Counseling gifted children in Singapore

Yeo

Pfeiffer

2016

Gifted Education International

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Gifted education (GE) in Singapore is entering its third decade. However, local research into the gifted is typically undertaken by graduate students and left as unpublished data. Internationally, there is also very little if any research on counseling models that have been empirically validated for use with gifted children irrespective of their country of origin and cultural experience. This article serendipitously originated from the second author's visit to Singapore as a consulting scholar and his discussions with personnel at the Singapore Education Ministry's GE Branch and interactions with local teachers and parents of gifted children. Drawing on the published wisdom of clinical experts and the second author who have provided counseling for gifted children, and the first author's knowledge about Asian culture and educational context in Singapore, the article proposes an evidence-based counseling model that could serve the needs of gifted children in Singapore and possibly other Asian countries.

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Internationalizing counselling: A Southeast Asian perspective

Cited by 28 publications

References 24 publications

Practise What you Preach: Counsellors’ Experience of Practising Buddhist Counselling in Thailand

Practise What you Preach: Counsellors’ Experience of Practising Buddhist Counselling in Thailand

A Social Network Analysis of International Collaboration in Counseling Psychology

Counseling gifted children in Singapore

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