Future Shock: Counseling Psychology in a VUCA World

2017 ◽  
Vol 45 (7) ◽  
pp. 1048-1058 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruth E. Fassinger ◽  
Sandra L. Shullman ◽  
Lydia P. Buki
Keyword(s):  
Future Study ◽  
Counseling Psychology ◽  
Current Knowledge ◽  
The State ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Counseling Psychologists

This article represents the conclusion of our special two-part issue of The Counseling Psychologist focused on leadership in counseling psychology. In this article, we reflect upon the state of leadership in counseling psychology as captured in the articles in this special issue. First, we explain the concept of a VUCA (volatile, uncertain, complex, ambiguous) world and why it is important to considerations of leadership by counseling psychologists. Next, we comment on each of the articles that comprise this two-part special issue, noting their strengths, relevance to current knowledge about and concepts of leadership, and questions that remain unanswered and thus ripe for further study. We conclude with recommendations for leadership-related efforts in counseling psychology as a field. It is our hope that this brief critique provides directions for future study and action regarding leadership in counseling psychology.

Introduction to the Special Issue: Integration of Practice, Advocacy, and Research in Counseling Psychology

2021 ◽  
Vol 49 (7) ◽  
pp. 946-957
Author(s):  
Shavonne Moore-Lobban ◽  
Anneliese A. Singh ◽  
Mary O’Leary Wiley
Keyword(s):  
Counseling Psychology ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Counseling Psychologists

In this article, we introduce the special issue of The Counseling Psychologist on the integration of practice, advocacy, and research in counseling psychology. This special issue was driven by Dr. Shavonne Moore-Lobban’s project as a member of the Society for Counseling Psychology Leadership Collaborative. The aim of the special issue is to highlight the unique practice, advocacy, and research contributions of practitioners, and specifically focus on the integration of the three roles of everyday counseling psychologists. There are six practitioner-led manuscripts that strengthen a focus within counseling psychology of the integration across the three roles, and through the diverse lens of counseling psychologists as therapists, supervisors, educators, researchers, program developers, and advocates. The development of this special issue is reviewed. We provide a brief summary of the manuscripts and discuss implications for continued integration.

Counseling Psychology and Neuropsychology

1992 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 549-555 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul C. Larson ◽  
Albert A. Agresti
Keyword(s):  
Counseling Psychology ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Knowledge And Skills ◽  
Professional Responsibilities ◽  
New Knowledge ◽  
Traditional Counseling ◽  
Counseling Psychologists

This article introduces a special issue of The Counseling Psychologist on the increasing involvement of counseling psychologists in neuropsychology. The rationale for this special issue is based on the dual premises that preparing counseling psychologists in neuropsychology is consistent with the historical emphases of the specialty and that changing professional responsibilities require the acquisition of new knowledge and skills to enable counseling psychologists to continue their involvement in traditional settings and clinical activities. The experience of counseling psychologists actively involved in providing neuropsychological services within traditional counseling psychology employment settings and clinical actvities leads them to argue that to meet changing professional responsibilities and expectations counseling psychologists need to develop minimal competency in neuropsychology.

Digital Storytelling Methodologies: Recommendations for a Participatory Approach to Engaging Underrepresented Communities in Counseling Psychology Research

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jillian Fish ◽  
Moin Syed
Keyword(s):  
Counseling Psychology ◽  
Quantitative Methods ◽  
Digital Storytelling ◽  
Psychology Research ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Arts Based Research ◽  
Social Justice Advocacy ◽  
Marginalized Communities ◽  
Five Phases ◽  
Counseling Psychologists

While counseling psychologists made substantial proposals to advance qualitative research since the special issue on related-methods was published 15-years ago (Haverkamp et al., 2005), the field continues to demonstrate an overreliance on quantitative methods. Though important for producing knowledge we can depend on, excessive use of these methods poses a barrier for counseling psychologists to address the needs of the communities that are at the core of our discipline’s values – those who are marginalized and underserved in society. In alignment with our values of social justice, advocacy, and empowerment, we propose counseling psychologists adopt a methodology within a critical paradigm to better address issues of inequality and inequity when working with underrepresented communities, such as digital storytelling. Rooted in a movement to increase access to art for marginalized communities in the 1970s and 80s, digital storytelling is an arts-based research methodology that captures first-person narrated accounts of peoples’ lives through the use of stories, photos, and videos, and empowers communities to be a part of research to create social change. We provide recommendations for using digital storytelling in counseling psychology research as outlined through five phases, including 1) digital storytelling’s critical paradigm, 2) project development, 3) implementation, 4) data analysis, and 5) dissemination. While doing so, we draw on examples from two digital storytelling projects we are familiar with, Immigrant Stories and OrigiNatives, providing a framework for a digital frontier in counseling psychology research.

A Call to Action

2011 ◽  
Vol 39 (8) ◽  
pp. 1193-1202 ◽  
Author(s):  
William D. Parham
Keyword(s):  
Counseling Psychology ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Political Advocacy ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Call To Action ◽  
Counseling Psychologists

The ascendance of large-scale disasters, catastrophes, and traumas as a concentrated focus of academic inquiry in counseling psychology is timely, and this special issue and subsequent investigations represent welcome areas of scholarship. The observations and comments herein salute the authors for responding to a post-Katrina discovery by counseling psychology of the heretofore localized and less than systematic responses to large-scale disasters, catastrophes, and traumas. Extensions to and invited elaborations on the collective observations of this team of authors are offered for consideration. This article also doubles as an invitation to counseling psychologists to put into action programs, procedures, policies, and political advocacy aimed at tapping and sustaining the hope and resilience of national and international communities forced to reconcile sudden and life-changing devastation.

An Introduction to the Special Issue on Energy and the Environment

Commonwealth ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Borick
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
The State ◽  
Special Issue

“An Introduction to the Special to the Special Issue on Energy and the Environment” provides an overview of the state of the literature relating to Pennsylvania in these areas of public policy. It then introduces each of the articles in this issue of the journal. 

Policing and Political Violence

2021 ◽  
pp. 002200272110130
Author(s):  
Kristine Eck ◽  
Courtenay R. Conrad ◽  
Charles Crabtree
Keyword(s):  
Political Violence ◽  
The State ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Conflict Studies ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Conflict Processes ◽  
State Security ◽  
New Research ◽  
Conflict Research

The police are often key actors in conflict processes, yet there is little research on their role in the production of political violence. Previous research provides us with a limited understanding of the part the police play in preventing or mitigating the onset or escalation of conflict, in patterns of repression and resistance during conflict, and in the durability of peace after conflicts are resolved. By unpacking the role of state security actors and asking how the state assigns tasks among them—as well as the consequences of these decisions—we generate new research paths for scholars of conflict and policing. We review existing research in the field, highlighting recent findings, including those from the articles in this special issue. We conclude by arguing that the fields of policing and conflict research have much to gain from each other and by discussing future directions for policing research in conflict studies.

scholarly journals Emerging Fungi and Diagnosis of Fungal Infections: Current Knowledge and New Developments

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 316
Author(s):  
Birgit Willinger
Keyword(s):  
Fungal Infections ◽  
Current Knowledge ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
New Developments ◽  
Emerging Fungi

I would like to thank all the authors contributing to this Special Issue [...]

White Supremacy and Counseling Psychology: A Critical–Conceptual Framework

2019 ◽  
Vol 47 (4) ◽  
pp. 478-529 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrick R. Grzanka ◽  
Kirsten A. Gonzalez ◽  
Lisa B. Spanierman
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
Counseling Psychology ◽  
White Supremacy ◽  
Theoretical Perspective ◽  
The United States ◽  
Helping Professions ◽  
White Clients ◽  
Racial Progress ◽  
Counseling Psychologists

The mainstreaming of White nationalism in the United States and worldwide suggests an urgent need for counseling psychologists to take stock of what tools they have (and do not have) to combat White supremacy. We review the rise of social justice issues in the field of counseling psychology and allied helping professions and point to the limits of existing paradigms to address the challenge of White supremacy. We introduce transnationalism as an important theoretical perspective with which to conceptualize global racisms, and identify White racial affect, intersectionality, and allyship as three key domains of antiracist action research. Finally, we suggest three steps for sharpening counseling psychologists’ approaches to social justice: rejecting racial progress narratives, engaging in social justice-oriented practice with White clients, and centering White supremacy as a key problem for the field of counseling psychology and allied helping professions.

scholarly journals Proteomic and Genomic Studies on Lizard Venoms in the Last Decade

2010 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. PRI.S3693 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hang Fai Kwok ◽  
Craig Ivanyi ◽  
Andrew Morris ◽  
Chris Shaw
Keyword(s):  
Natural Resources ◽  
Potential Benefit ◽  
Current Knowledge ◽  
The State ◽  
Bioactive Molecules ◽  
Genomic Research ◽  
Active Compounds ◽  
Current Review ◽  
Comprehensive Picture ◽  
Genomic Studies

Traditionally man has looked to nature to provide cures for diseases. This approach still exists today in the form of ‘bio-prospecting’ for therapeutically-active compounds in venoms. For example, the venoms of many reptiles offer a spectacular laboratory of bioactive molecules, including peptides and proteins. In the last 10–15 years, there have been a number of major proteomic and genomic research breakthroughs on lizard venoms. In this current review, the key findings from these proteomic and genomic studies will be critically discussed and suggestions will be offered for future focused investigations. It is our intention that this article will not only provide a comprehensive picture of the state of current knowledge of the components of lizard venoms, but also engender awareness in readers of the need to protect and conserve such uniquely precious natural resources for several reasons, including the potential benefit of humankind.

scholarly journals Introduction

1990 ◽  
Vol 30 (4) ◽  
pp. 487-492 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carl F. Kaestle
Keyword(s):  
State Of The Art ◽  
History Of Education ◽  
The State ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Research Papers ◽  
History Of

The History of Education Quarterly has done it again. Despite many scholars' previous attempts to summarize the state of the art in historical studies of literacy, this special issue will now be the best, up-to-date place for a novice to start. It should be required reading for everyone interested in this subfield. The editors have enlisted an impressive roster of prominent scholars in the field, and these authors have provided us with an excellent array of synthetic reviews, methodological and theoretical discussions, and exemplary research papers.

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