Recognition of Community-Based Youth Programming in Counseling Psychology Journals: A 30-Year Analysis

The Counseling Psychologist ◽

10.1177/00110000211057913 ◽

2022 ◽

pp. 001100002110579

Author(s):

Laura E. Jensen ◽

Amanda S. Case

Keyword(s):

Social Justice ◽

Content Analysis ◽

Counseling Psychology ◽

Culturally Responsive ◽

Youth Programs ◽

Community Based ◽

Time Period ◽

Community Based Programs ◽

Client Strengths ◽

Future Direction

As a field, counseling psychology distinguishes itself through its values of building on client strengths, developmentally-informed and preventative approaches to treatment, social justice efforts to confront individual and systemic oppression, and treatment of individuals across the lifespan. Community-based youth programs offer a culturally-responsive way to advocate for and challenge the systemic inequities faced by youth today. Despite the connections between counseling psychology values and community-based programs, it is unclear how, and to what extent, the field has contributed to this literature. To address this issue, we conducted a content analysis of the three major counseling psychology journals to determine how community-based youth programs have been represented in the field. From January 1990 to March 2019 only 10 articles were published about community-based youth programming, representing only .17% of the articles published during that time period. Implications and future direction for researchers, journals, and the field as a whole are addressed.

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Multicultural Competence and Social Justice Training in Counseling Psychology and Counselor Education

The Counseling Psychologist ◽

10.1177/0011000008319986 ◽

2008 ◽

Vol 37 (1) ◽

pp. 93-115 ◽

Cited By ~ 87

Author(s):

Alex L. Pieterse ◽

Sarah A. Evans ◽

Amelia Risner-Butner ◽

Noah M. Collins ◽

Laura Beth Mason

Keyword(s):

Social Justice ◽

Content Analysis ◽

Multicultural Competence ◽

Counseling Psychology ◽

American Psychological Association ◽

American Psychological ◽

Psychology Programs ◽

Social Justice Advocacy ◽

Course Content ◽

Course Syllabi

This article presents the findings of a descriptive content analysis of 54 multicultural and diversity-related course syllabi drawn from counseling and counseling psychology programs accredited by the American Psychological Association and the Accreditation of Counseling and Related Programs. Results suggest that most courses adhere to the knowledge, awareness, and skills paradigm of multicultural competence. However, actual course content varies considerably. Whereas the findings identify social justice content as a growing presence in multicultural courses, there is a need to more clearly outline the fundamental points of distinction and overlap between multicultural competence and social justice advocacy in counselor and counseling psychology training.

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Evaluating Youth Drop-In Programs: The Utility of Process Evaluation Methods

Canadian Journal of Program Evaluation ◽

10.3138/cjpe.42976 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 34 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Derek J Chechak ◽

Judith M Dunlop ◽

Michael J Holosko

Keyword(s):

Process Evaluation ◽

Program Implementation ◽

Self Esteem ◽

Evaluation Methods ◽

Youth Programs ◽

Service Users ◽

Community Based ◽

Managerial Competencies ◽

Community Based Programs ◽

Practice Skills

In North America, neighbourhood youth centres typically off er essential community-based programs to disadvantaged and marginalized populations. In addition to providing pro-social and supportive environments, they provide a host of educational and skill-development opportunities and interventions that build self-esteem, increase positive life relationships and experiences, and address social determinants of health. However, evaluators of such centres often have to work with moving changes in temporal components (i.e., service users, services, programs, and outcomes) that are unique and idiosyncratic to the mandate of the centre. Although there is an abundance of research on youth programs in general, there is a void in the literature on drop-in programs specifically, which this study aims to address. Th e lack of empirical research in this area inhibits knowledge about the processes of these centres. For this reason, the article concludes that process evaluation methods may be effectively used to substantiate the practice skills, knowledge, and managerial competencies of those responsible for program implementation.

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Moving From Contemplation to Preparation: Is Counseling Psychology Ready to Embrace Culturally Responsive Prevention?

The Counseling Psychologist ◽

10.1177/0011000007304596 ◽

2007 ◽

Vol 35 (6) ◽

pp. 840-849 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Eve M. Adams

Keyword(s):

Social Justice ◽

Stages Of Change ◽

Multicultural Competence ◽

Counseling Psychology ◽

Culturally Responsive ◽

Learning Opportunities ◽

Cultural Responsiveness ◽

System Level ◽

Change Model ◽

Preventive Interventions

The confluence of prevention, multicultural competence and cultural responsiveness, and social justice is embryonic but holds much promise. The author uses the stages of change model to heighten awareness of how counseling psychologists are situated to provide well-developed system-level interventions and to examine the organizational and individual barriers to doing such work. The author then highlights the benefits for counseling psychology of engaging in preventive interventions. Strategies are provided to enhance the integration of prevention in training programs' curriculum in both the applied and research elements of the program. By providing learning opportunities that expose trainees to community interventions with disenfranchised populations, counseling psychology's commitment to social justice and multiculturalism will be more fully realized.

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Stories from the Field

Critical Social Work ◽

10.22329/csw.v11i2.5821 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 11 (2) ◽

Author(s):

Purnima George ◽

Brienne Coleman ◽

Lisa Barnoff

Keyword(s):

Social Justice ◽

Social Work ◽

Service Provider ◽

Transformative Change ◽

Community Based ◽

Community Based Programs ◽

Starting Point ◽

Current Context ◽

The Voice

In the current times social work has been increasingly confined to the role of “service provider”, an instrument of neo-liberalism, rather than as the voice of dissent to mainstream politics that it has the potential to be. Taking the model of structural social work as our starting point, we investigated the practices of two community-based programs in Toronto, which utilize the main tenets of structural social work as their guiding framework. Despite the current context, they are still able to engage in creative practices geared toward social justice and transformative change. The stories provide hope and direction for social justice oriented practice in the current context.

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