Research: Korean International Students' Expectations About Counseling

Abstract

990) reported that 50 % of Asian Americans tend to terminate counseling after the first interview, in contrast to a 30% termination rate for Caucasian American clients. The authors attributed this phenomenon to a lack of understanding between the majority therapist and the minority client regarding each other and the counseling process. Leong (I 986) suggested that there are many cultural factors influencing Asian Americans' receptiveness to counseling and psychotherapy. He reported that Asian American clients prefer advice and suggestions for immediate practical solutions as opposed to insight-oriented therapy. Chan, Lam, Leung, Wong, and Fang (1 988) explained that because of the emphasis of Confucian teaching on hierarchical relationships in the Chinese culture, Chinese clients tend to have a strong preference for directive and structured counseling. Kenney (1 994) contended that it is paramount that therapists understand the communicative and philosophical differences between cultural groups in order to foster a positive multicultural counseling relationship.

Utilization of Counseling Services: Comparing International and U.S. College Students

“…These findings contradict previous research that suggested that international students underutilize services or are more pathologized than U.S. students (Byon et al, 1999;Nilsson et al, 2004). The results suggest that assessing nonclient samples may say little about how students will use services.…”

“…Both U.S. and international students tended to have the same top presenting concerns, most frequent diagnoses, GPA, living situation, sexual orientation, previous on-campus counseling, disposition, referral for on-campus psychiatric evaluation, premature termination rates, and mean number of sessions attended. These findings contradict previous research that suggested that international students underutilize services or are more pathologized than U.S. students (Byon et al, 1999;Nilsson et al, 2004). The results suggest that assessing nonclient samples may say little about how students will use services.…”

International experience, universities support and graduate employability – perceptions of Chinese international students studying in UK universities

“…This is consistent with related work (e.g. Nilsson et al 2004;Singaravelu et al 2005) which has previously identified international students as not engaging with careers services due to differences in cultural values (Byon et al 1999) or their support not to be seen as worthwhile (Shen and Herr 2004). Chinese students may present a specific challenge for careers services to engage with as traditionally family influence exerts an impacts on Asian students' career choices (Sun 2015;Wong and Liu 2010;Yi et al 2003;Yoo and Skovholt 2001), though this may not hold true from the data we presented above.…”

Development and evaluation of new factor scales for the expectations about counseling inventory in a college sample

“…Byon, Chan, and Thomas (1999) used cluster analysis to distinguish the responses of 136 Korean international students on a translated version of the EAC-B. Though the authors did not explicitly define the three groups that emerged from their analysis, readers can make some inferences about these groups by examining the statistical table that showed how the three groups differed on the 17 scales of the EAC-B.…”