scholarly journals Compassion & Self-compassion: Exploration of Utility as Potential Components of the Rehabilitation Counseling Profession

2014 ◽  
Vol 45 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-44 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan Stuntzner
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Research ◽  
Rehabilitation Counseling ◽  
Review Of The Literature ◽  
Persons With Disabilities ◽  
Counseling Professionals ◽  
Counseling Profession ◽  
Potential Value ◽  
Self Compassion ◽  
Negative Thoughts ◽  
Feelings And Outcomes

Compassion and self-compassion are two constructs emerging within the research as useful agents in reducing negative thoughts, feelings, and outcomes while also promoting positive ones. To date, these constructs have not been studied or applied to the rehabilitation counseling profession or the needs ofindividuals with disabilities. In an effort to bridge this gap and to enhance rehabilitation counseling professionals' awareness of their potential value, an in-depth review of the literature and research on these two constructs was conducted. Throughout this article, compassion and self-compassion are more clearly conceptualized and barriers which may hinder their development are discussed. A review of empirical research is provided to help demonstrate their usefulness as potential healing agents in the lives of individuals with disabilities. Recommendations are proved to rehabilitation counseling professionals who work with persons with disabilities.

scholarly journals Forgiveness and Disability: Reconsideration of Forgiveness as a Vital Component of the Rehabilitation Counseling Profession

2015 ◽  
Vol 46 (3) ◽  
pp. 35-43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan Stuntzner ◽  
Jacquelyn Dalton
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Research ◽  
Rehabilitation Counseling ◽  
Helping Professions ◽  
Persons With Disabilities ◽  
Counseling Professionals ◽  
Counseling Profession ◽  
Self Forgiveness ◽  
Vital Component ◽  
Different Populations

Forgiveness and self-forgiveness is an area of growing interest in the allied helping professions. In recent years, the study of forgiveness has been expanded to a number of different populations. However, forgiveness as a construct, a model of understanding to cope with difficult and hurtful people, and as an intervention has not been fully considered and explored in the rehabilitation counseling profession. To help rehabilitation counseling professionals better understand the importance of forgiveness as it relates to disability, this article explains the meaning of forgiveness and self-forgiveness, barriers that inhibit the development of forgiveness, models of forgiveness, and empirical research supporting the utility of forgiveness. Following this, professionals are given information about how forgiveness may relate to the needs of persons with disabilities and professional implications for practice.

scholarly journals Compassion and Self-compassion: Conceptualization of and Application to Adjustment to Disability

2017 ◽  
Vol 48 (2) ◽  
pp. 15-25 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan Stuntzner
Keyword(s):  
Rehabilitation Counseling ◽  
Rehabilitation Counselors ◽  
Adjustment Process ◽  
Emotional Pain ◽  
Persons With Disabilities ◽  
Process Adjustment ◽  
Self Compassion ◽  
Coping Process ◽  
Negative Thoughts ◽  
Adjustment To Disability

For many, disability may ignite feelings of grief, sadness, loss, and/or emotional pain. Others discover they harbor negative or self-critical thoughts and beliefs (i.e., blame) which compounds and complicates the personal coping process. Adjustment to disability models exist to help persons with disabilities and professionals understand or explain their negative thoughts, feelings, and experiences; yet, they do not overtly discuss or address emerging skills and approaches such as compassion and selfcompassion as a part of the disability adjustment process. In an effort to change this trend, an eclectic theoretical model which infuses self-compassion and compassion-based techniques has been developed. Rehabilitation counselors are provided with an explanation of the ways existing research on compassion and self-compassion can be used to strengthen their application to the adjustment needs of persons with disabilities. Information about how to incorporate compassion and self-compassion into the rehabilitation counseling adjustment process and recommendations are also provided.

scholarly journals Are business academics in Australia experiencing emotional labour? A call for empirical research

2010 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 425-435 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Hatzinikolakis ◽  
Joanna Crossman
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Emotional Labor ◽  
Business Schools ◽  
Organizational Level ◽  
Review Of The Literature ◽  
Organizational Settings ◽  
Emotional Labour ◽  
Exchange Value ◽  
Workplace Environments

AbstractThe concept of ‘emotional labour’ is concerned with occasions when feelings are managed to create publically observable emotions in organizational settings in ways that involve them being ‘sold for a wage’ and therefore taking on an ‘exchange value’ (Hochschild (1983: 7). Drawing on an in-depth literature review, this paper explore grounds for arguing that business academics in Australia are experiencing emotional labor. The authors consider the application of findings concerned with emotional labor in a variety of occupations in relation to the context of university business schools. More specifically, they discuss how two decades of increasing marketisation, commercialisation and service orientated university practices may have contributed to emotional labor in Australian university business schools. The paper draws two conclusions. Firstly, educational managers need to be better informed about the positive and negative implications of emotional labor so that they can develop appropriate strategies, guidelines and workplace environments at the organizational level. Secondly, that a review of the literature suggests that empirical research is warranted in order to address the question posed in the title of the paper.

scholarly journals Relationship between Future Orientation and Pain Severity in Fibromyalgia Patients: Self-Compassion as a Coping Mechanism

Social Work ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 64 (3) ◽  
pp. 253-258
Author(s):  
Edward C Chang ◽  
Abigael G Lucas ◽  
Olivia D Chang ◽  
Harrison D Angoff ◽  
Mingqi Li ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Future Orientation ◽  
Negative Association ◽  
Pain Severity ◽  
Coping Mechanism ◽  
Potential Value ◽  
Self Compassion ◽  
Social Support System ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract The present study examined the relationship between future orientation and fibromyalgia-related pain severity in a sample of 287 adults with fibromyalgia. Specifically, authors examined dimensions of self-compassion (for example, self-kindness, isolation, mindfulness) as possible mechanisms through which future orientation might be associated with pain severity. Results of conducting a multiple mediator test with 10,000 bootstraps indicated that the significant negative association between future orientation and pain severity was mediated through one specific self-compassion dimension, namely, isolation. The article concludes with a discussion of the implications of the present findings for working with fibromyalgia patients, specifically the potential value of social workers working with fibromyalgia patients to build future orientation as a resilience factor to combat pain severity. Also discussed is the value of working with patients to develop a sustainable social support system that can disrupt experiences of social isolation and disconnectedness from others, and which appear to contribute to greater pain severity.

Deliberation and Policy-Making: Three Ways to Think About Minipublics’ Consequences

2020 ◽  
pp. 009539972096451
Author(s):  
Vincent Jacquet ◽  
Ramon van der Does
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Review ◽  
Structural Change ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Review Of The Literature ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Policy Making Process

Policy-makers are increasingly experimenting with various ways to involve citizens in policy-making. Deliberative forums composed of lay citizens (minipublics) count among the most popular of such innovations. Despite their popularity, it is often unclear in what ways such minipublics could affect policy-making. This article addresses this issue of conceptual ambiguity by drawing on an original systematic review of the literature. It shows that the literature has approached these consequences in three ways: congruence with decisions, consideration in the policy-making process, and structural change. The article discusses the implications for empirical research and points out trajectories for future research on deliberative minipublics.

Developing a Specialty in Neurofeedback: Decision Points

2016 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
pp. 155-169 ◽  
Author(s):  
Theodore J. Chapin
Keyword(s):  
Continuing Education ◽  
Program Design ◽  
Clinical Expertise ◽  
Ethical Considerations ◽  
Equipment And Supplies ◽  
Counseling Profession ◽  
Potential Value ◽  
Decision Points

This article reviews several important considerations in making the decision to develop a specialty in neurofeedback (NFB). These include: interest in expanding one's clinical expertise in neuroanatomy and neuroscience; aptitude for work with computers, software and equipment; and ethical considerations such as boundaries of practice, qualification, skillful practice, specialty supervision and continuing education. It also reviews important practical issues such as program design and focus, promotion, billing challenges and costs of training, supervision, equipment and supplies. The article then concludes with a brief discussion of the potential value of a NFB specialty to clients, counselors and the counseling profession.

A Call for Integral Approaches in the Professional Identity of Rehabilitation Counseling: Three Specialty Areas, One Profession

2008 ◽  
Vol 39 (4) ◽  
pp. 64-68
Author(s):  
Mark A. Stebnicki
Keyword(s):  
Professional Identity ◽  
Rehabilitation Counseling ◽  
The Other ◽  
Professional Counseling ◽  
Counseling Professionals ◽  
Multiple Indicators ◽  
Professional Counselor ◽  
Eligibility Standards ◽  
And Function ◽  
Role And Function

There are multiple indicators that suggest there is a shift in the foundational principles and practices in rehabilitation counseling that have created professional identity concerns. These concerns relate to (a) philosophical differences in the role and function of rehabilitation counseling professionals, (b) professional counselor licensure laws mandating eligibility standards for practice, (c) a variety of professional counseling associations' divergent agendas for communicating the professional counselor's identity, and (d) perceptions and observations made by our colleagues from the other counseling specialty areas about our identity.

Advances in Trait-and-Factor Theory: A Person x Environment Fit Approach to Rehabilitation Counseling

1993 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 11-14
Author(s):  
John F. Kosciulek
Keyword(s):  
Service Provision ◽  
Rehabilitation Counseling ◽  
Counseling Services ◽  
Persons With Disabilities ◽  
Comprehensive Rehabilitation

This article illustrates how the trait-and-factor approach is still useful in rehabilitation counseling. An overview of trait-and-factor theory is provided along with its rehabilitation counseling applications and limitations. The person x environment (P x E) fit approach, an updated perspective on trait-and-factor counseling that overcomes previous limitations, is also presented. The rehabilitation literature supports the use of an ecological, P x E approach in service provision to persons with disabilities. An awareness of the P x E trait-factor approach will encourage more individualized and comprehensive rehabilitation counseling services.

Rehabilitation Counseling Practice in State Vocational Rehabilitation and the Effect of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA)

2017 ◽  
Vol 48 (3) ◽  
pp. 20-28 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fong Chan ◽  
Timothy N. Tansey ◽  
Julie Chronister ◽  
Brian T. McMahon ◽  
Kanako Iwanaga ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Case Management ◽  
Vocational Rehabilitation ◽  
Rehabilitation Counseling ◽  
The State ◽  
Knowledge And Skills ◽  
Counseling Profession ◽  
Counseling Practice ◽  
The Future ◽  
Workforce Innovation ◽  
Counselor Preparedness

Purpose: This article includes a study that sheds light on the implications of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunities Act (WIOA) mandated VR knowledge and skills requirements for VR counselors in the state VR program. It is also a commentary on current training, accreditation and intraprofessional challenges in the larger counseling field. Our study investigated VR directors’ perceptions of the importance and counselor preparedness in specific WIOA mandated knowledge areas. Findings revealed that VR directors consider WIOA mandated knowledge areas (e.g., employment-related and case management) to be very important, and they see room for improvement in the preparation of VR counselors to execute these functions. Our commentary provides readers with information related rehabilitation counseling history, intraprofessional practice, and guidelines for the future of rehabilitation counseling and the larger counseling profession.

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