Journal of Counseling Psychology

Reports the retraction of "Therapist-client agreement about their working alliance: Associations with attachment styles" by Seini O'Connor, Dennis M. Kivlighan Jr., Clara E. Hill and Charles J. Gelso ( Journal of Counseling Psychology , 2019[Jan], Vol 66[1], 83-93). The following article (https://doi.org/10.1037/cou0000303) is being retracted. This retraction is at the request of coauthors Kivlighan, Hill, and Gelso after the results of an investigation by the University of Maryland Institutional Review Board (IRB)...

Reports the retraction of ""Where is the relationship" revisited: Using actor-partner interdependence modeling and common fate model in examining dyadic working alliance and session quality" by Xu Li, Seini O'Connor, Dennis M. Kivlighan Jr. and Clara E. Hill ( Journal of Counseling Psychology , 2021[Mar], Vol 68[2], 194-207). The following article (https://doi.org/10.1037/cou0000515) is being retracted. This retraction is at the request of coauthors Kivlighan and Hill after the results of an investigation by the University of Maryland Institutional Review Board (IRB)...

Reports the retraction of "Do therapists improve in their ability to assess clients' satisfaction? A truth and bias model" by Brian TaeHyuk Keum, Katherine Morales Dixon, Dennis M. Kivlighan Jr., Clara E. Hill and Charles J. Gelso ( Journal of Counseling Psychology , 2021[Oct], Vol 68[5], 608-620). The following article (https://doi.org/10.1037/cou0000525) is being retracted. This retraction is at the request of coauthors Kivlighan, Hill, and Gelso after the results of an investigation by the University of Maryland Institutional Review Board (IRB)...

Reports the retraction of "Therapist initial attachment style, changes in attachment style during training, and client outcome in psychodynamic psychotherapy" by Yun Lu, Dennis M. Kivlighan Jr., Clara E. Hill and Charles J. Gelso ( Journal of Counseling Psychology , 2022[Nov], Vol 69[6], 794-802). The following article (https://doi.org/10 .1037/cou0000557) is being retracted. This retraction is at the request of coauthors Kivlighan, Hill, and Gelso after the results of an investigation by the University of Maryland Institutional Review Board (IRB)...

Reports the retraction of "Congruence and discrepancy between working alliance and real relationship: Variance decomposition and response surface analyses" by Dennis M. Kivlighan Jr., Kathryn Kline, Charles J. Gelso and Clara E. Hill ( Journal of Counseling Psychology , 2017[Jul], Vol 64[4], 394-409). The following article (https://doi.org/10.1037/cou0000216) is being retracted. This retraction is at the request of coauthors Kivlighan, Hill, and Gelso after the results of an investigation by the University of Maryland Institutional Review Board (IRB)...

Reports the retraction of "The within-client alliance-outcome relationship: A response surface analysis" by Justin W. Hillman, Yun Lu, Dennis M. Kivlighan Jr. and Clara E. Hill ( Journal of Counseling Psychology , 2022[Nov], Vol 69[6], 812-822). The following article (https://doi.org/10.1037/cou0000630) is being retracted. This retraction is at the request of coauthors Kivlighan and Hill after the results of an investigation by the University of Maryland Institutional Review Board (IRB). The IRB found that the study included data from between one and four therapy clients of the Maryland Psychotherapy Clinic and Research Laboratory (MPCRL) who either had not been asked to provide consent or had withdrawn consent for their data to be included in the research...

Reports the retraction of "Changes in meaning in life, working alliance, and outcome in psychodynamic psychotherapy: What leads to what" by Katie L. Rim, Clara E. Hill and Dennis M. Kivlighan Jr. ( Journal of Counseling Psychology , 2022[Nov], Vol 69[6], 835-844). The following article (https://doi.org/10.1037/cou0000636) is being retracted. This retraction is at the request of coauthors Kivlighan and Hill after the results of an investigation by the University of Maryland Institutional Review Board (IRB). The IRB found that the study included data from between one and four therapy clients of the Maryland Psychotherapy Clinic and Research Laboratory (MPCRL) who either had not been asked to provide consent or had withdrawn consent for their data to be included in the research...

Reports the retraction of "A strong alliance is not enough: Item-level variation in an alliance measure moderates the alliance strength and client outcome relationship" by Mira An, Dennis M. Kivlighan Jr. and Clara E. Hill ( Journal of Counseling Psychology , Advanced Online Publication, Aug 08, 2022, np). The following article (https://doi .org/10.1037/cou0000629) is being retracted. This retraction is at the request of coauthors Kivlighan and Hill after the results of an investigation by the University of Maryland Institutional Review Board (IRB)...

UNLABELLED: Reports an error in "Do psychotherapists improve with time and experience? A longitudinal analysis of outcomes in a clinical setting" by Simon B. Goldberg, Tony Rousmaniere, Scott D. Miller, Jason Whipple, Stevan Lars Nielsen, William T. Hoyt and Bruce E. Wampold ( Journal of Counseling Psychology , 2016[Jan], Vol 63[1], 1-11). The article (https://doi.org/10.1037/cou0000131), had an error in the Method section in the Early termination section under the Variables heading. The coding was reversed in the sentence "Patients received a code of 0 (early termination) or 1 (nonearly termination) on this dichotomous variable" and should have read "Patients received a code of 1 (early termination) or 0 (nonearly termination) on this dichotomous variable...

The purpose of this study was to explore the experience of healing from family rejection among transgender and nonbinary Latinx individuals. Participants were asked how they navigated family dynamics related to gender identity and specific behaviors or resources that promoted their healing from experiences of family rejection. Data from 12 interviews with Latinx nonbinary and transgender adults were analyzed through a critical-constructivist grounded theory method resulting in a hierarchy composed of three clusters related to the core category (healing from family rejection leads to the recreation of diasporic identity and community as one learns to live authentically in their ethnic/racial gendered expression)...

This study of 176 university students tested a single-session explanatory feedback intervention (EFI), derived from the perfectionism coping processes model. Participants with higher self-critical perfectionism completed daily measures of stress appraisals, coping, and affect for 7 days. A randomized control design was used to compare an EFI condition with a waitlist control condition over 4 weeks with individualized feedback delivered one-on-one by student trainees in-person or remotely through videoconferencing...

Research has shown that minority stress is linked to poorer mental health across a variety of stigmatized populations, including lesbian, gay, bisexual, and queer (LGBQ) people. It is therefore essential to understand factors that can counteract minority stress. To date, most research on LGBQ people's resilience relied on retrospective reports of stressful identity-salient experiences. This limits the understanding about resilience factors that enable LGBQ people to thrive in the face of minority stressors as they occur on a day-to-day basis...

A growing body of research has demonstrated the importance of therapists' multicultural orientation (MCO), namely, their cultural humility (CH), cultural comfort, and cultural missed opportunities, on treatment processes and outcomes (Davis et al., 2018). However, to date, few research has attempted to identify client factors that may moderate the relationship between therapists' MCO and therapeutic processes and outcomes. Informed by Yakushko et al.'s (2009) identity salience model, this study seeks to advance the MCO literature by examining the saliency of clients' cultural identities, therapists' MCO, and improvement in therapy...

We examined Asian American college students' adherence to traditional values that are salient in Asian cultures, the students' perceptions of their mother's and father's adherence to the same values, and the discrepancies between the students and their mothers and fathers on the levels of adherence to these values. Based on the data from 301 participants who self-identified as Asian Americans, paired-samples t tests revealed that the child-parent cultural value discrepancies were present across all generational statuses of the participants with the children adhering less strongly to most of the value dimensions than their parents...

The emerging literature highlights online racism (e.g., racist online interactions, exposure to racially traumatizing content) as a contemporary stressor among racially/ethnically minoritized adults. Thus, identifying factors that can help buffer the harmful impact of online racism are imperative. We examined engagement in antiracism advocacy and online coping as moderators that can potentially buffer the link between online racism and psychological distress. Using data from 395 racially/ethnically diverse adults ( M age = 34...

Based on three-annual-wave data from 3,196 Chinese adolescents across the high school years ( M age = 15.55 years old, SD = .44; 52.8% girls at Wave 1, 10th grade), this study examined the curvilinear associations between adolescents' perceived parental career expectation and their career adaptability and ambivalence and also tested the potential mediating role of adolescents' internalizing problems in such associations. Results showed that, after controlling for a set of critical covariates and the baseline levels of outcome variables, there was an inverted U-shaped curvilinear association between adolescents' perceived parental career expectation at Wave 1 and their career adaptability at Wave 3 via adolescent internalizing problems at Wave 2...

Immediacy is a skill therapists use to process the therapeutic relationship in the here and now. Although immediacy has been shown to enhance the therapeutic process, therapists are often reluctant to use it (Hill et al., 2018). In three studies, we developed and tested a measure to assess reasons that therapists avoid using this skill: the Barriers to Using Immediacy Scale (BUIS). In Study 1, 185 North American therapist trainees completed the 45-item pilot measure. Exploratory factor analysis supported a four-factor structure (Concerns About Client Reactions, Concerns About Therapist Reactions, Negative Beliefs About Immediacy, Lack of Skills for Using Immediacy)...

We studied whether counseling self-efficacy increases after taking a helping skills course as well as whether trainer (instructor) effects are associated with postclass self-efficacy. We surveyed 551 undergraduate students and 27 trainers in helping skills courses across three semesters at one large mid-Atlantic U.S. public university. We found that students reported greater counseling self-efficacy after taking the course. In addition, trainers accounted for small but significant amount of the variance (7%) in changes in counseling self-efficacy...

Among psychotherapy patients, unstable early distress scores are known to predict substantial intersession improvement later in treatment. The evidence has been ambiguous as to whether early distress instability also predicts outcome. We investigated the links among early distress instability, later intersession improvement, and outcome. In a sample of 1,796 students treated with brief psychotherapy at university counseling centers, we sought to predict intersession improvement and treatment outcome from an index of distress instability, as assessed during the first four treatment sessions...

Culturally relevant stressors and protective factors are vital to understanding and effectively supporting Native American/Alaska Native (NA/AN) college students' mental health and well-being. This study examined the theorized pathways among historical loss, well-being, psychological distress, and the proposed cultural buffer of ethnic identity in the indigenist stress-coping model (ISCM). Cross-sectional data were collected via online survey and analyzed using structural equation modeling. Participants were a national sample of 242 NA/AN college students...