Qualitative research of key point of client's change in counseling / 中国心理卫生杂志

Objective:To analyze the key point of client's change in counseling,and found the cognitive,emotional and other characteristics in the key point of change.Methods:Totally 14 foreign cases and 5 domestic cases with good outcome that came from the published literature in the area of assimilation model were analyzed.The secondary data analysis was used to analyze the cases'data.Results:Analysis revealed that 9 categories were generated from the data,which were understanding the causes of the problems,the accompanying feelings,the emergence of a new awareness,removing the problematic voice's threat,discovering behavior pattern,allowing the coexistence of both original conflicts,directly expressing the problematic voice desired to be expressed,viewing things with different perspectives,finding out the direction of future action.Conclusions:Behind the key point of client's change,changes in cognition could lead to changes in emotion,so that the problematic voice's threat could be removed and the coexistence of original conflict could be allowed,and then bring about the relief of the client's inner conflict.

The way for certifying counselors and psychotherapists in China / 中国心理卫生杂志

Objective:From a professional competency-based perspective,this study aimed to explore appro-priate ways for certifying counselors and psychotherapists in China,and focused on improving the evaluation pro-gram for clinical and counseling psychologist of the Clinical and Counseling Psychology Registration System (CCPRS)of Chinese Psychological Society.Method:The theories and methods for certifying counselors and psy-chotherapists in China and overseas were summarized by using the literature method,based on which the design principles for certification in China were determined.Using the expert method,the core competencies of Chinese counselor and psychotherapist were proposed to form the index system of evaluation.A survey was also conducted to obtain a preliminary validity of the improved evaluation program.Result:Design principles for certifying coun-selors and psychotherapists were multi-trait,multi-method,and multi-informant.The core competencies of Chinese counselor and therapist included six domains,which were professional attitudes and conduct,ethics and law,clinical knowledge and skills,science and research,relationship building,cultural diversity and Chinese culture,case man-agement,respectively.Results from the expert judgments indicated that the evaluation materials which formulated by the improved program could assess all six core competencies and had acceptable reliabilities(Cronbach's α=0.74-0.97).And the expert evaluation about the improved program was high.Conclusion:The core competencies of Chinese counselor and therapist,which formulated by the improved evaluation program,reflect the necessary attitudes,knowledge and skills that needed when engaged in the professional practice of counseling and psychothera-py,and also can be used as a reference for counselor and psychotherapist education,training,practice,and compe-tency evaluation in China.The improved evaluation program can be used as a transitional way for certifying coun-selors and psychotherapists in China.

Depth of counseling process:exploring of a three-dimension model / 中国心理卫生杂志

Objective:To test Jiang Guangrong's(2005)three-dimension model on the depth of counseling process.Methods:In this process-outcome research,28 sessions in a university counseling center were videotaped and coded in terms of the model.Structure Equation Model(SEM)was used to examine the relations between the coding and counselors and clients' evaluation of the session depth.Results:(1)Clients and counselors evaluated differently on the session depth,and clients' evaluation was more positive than counselors' [(4.95±1.12)vs.(4.23±0.94),P<0.05];(2)The model was significantly correlated with counselors' session depth evaluation(path coefficient = 0.55,P<0.01),but not with the clients';(3)The session curves describing each dimension changing over time had different patterns in sessions of different depth level,through which more about the counseling process could be known.Conclusion:The three-dimension model on the depth of counseling process has got some empirical evidences.

A Study on Help-seeking Hropensity of Chinese Undergraduates / 中国临床心理学杂志

Objective: To examine the help-seeking tendency of Chinese undergraduates in a normal university when they suffering from mental problems, and the reasons that prevented them from seeking professional help. Methods: A questionnaire was administered to 292 undergraduates. Results and Conclusions: ①The subjects preferred solving problems themselves to seeking others, and prefered to go to those who were closed to them when they had to ask for help. The professional counseling service was chosen only when the problem became severe and emotionally disturbed.②Male university students preferred to solve problems themselvesmrre than female ones, and students from the city preferred to solve problems themselves more than those from the countryside.③3 Some factors or categories were identified from the total 9 reasons that responsible for not asking for professional help, in which the more important two were "self efficacy relevant factor" and "saving face relevant factor".

A Review on Researches on Self-handicapping Abroad / 中国临床心理学杂志

This study reviews the researches on self-handicapping in about more than 20 years. It summarizes the practical researches of self-handicapping from 7 aspects: (1)manifestations and types of self-handicapping behaviors;(2)evaluative conditions that typically elicit self-handicapping;(3)motives underlying self-handicapping; (4)factors influencing on self-handicapping; (5)consequences of self-handicapping; (6) measurements of self-handicapping. On this basis, it raises some questions in self-handicappping researches and points out the future direction.

Review of the Effect of Violent Video Games on Children and Adolescents / 中国临床心理学杂志

As the products of modern science,the effects of video games on children and adolescents drew the attention of psychologists.Anderson and Bushman proposed the General Aggressive Model,which could explain both the development of aggressive behavior and the difference of individual vulnerability to the effects of violent video games,and they advocated the effects,including short-term effects and long-term effects.Many researches about the relation of violent video games and aggression reported five consistent results:exposure to violent video games increased aggressive behavior,cognition,affect and physiological arousal,and decreased helping behavior.The positive intervention of parents can decrease negative effects of video games.