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0000-0002-8093-1520
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Murdoch University
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Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 26-03-2013
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 18-06-2013
Publisher: British Psychological Society
Date: 05-2006
DOI: 10.53841/BPSCPR.2006.21.2.19
Abstract: This qualitative study employs Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) to illustrate the experiences and views of waiting for therapy of four participants who showed reliable and clinically significant improvement according to CORE-OM between their assessment interview and the start of their cognitive therapy in a primary care NHS psychology service – a service with a wait of between 45 and 90 days. The participants report mixed views and experiences of waiting for therapy despite the improvement suggested by the CORE-OM. In addition, two master themes that are relevant to the experience of waiting for therapy are discussed: Social Support and Mechanisms of Relief. While some researchers argue that the improved scores observed over the duration of a waiting period are nothing more than the result of a testing artefact, the experiences reported in this study suggest that real changes do take place between the assessment and start of therapy that may be accurately reflected by changes to people’s psychometric scores.
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 07-2018
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 18-01-2019
Abstract: This article conducts a secondary analysis of combined survey data collected from clinical and counselling psychologists in South Africa with a view to contributing to the debate about their respective Scope of Practice. A comparison of clinical and counselling psychologists’ activities, where and how they are doing these activities and with what emphasis, as well as the similarities and differences between these categories with respect to demographic variables of their practitioners, values and career satisfaction, and views of their respective Scopes of Practice should provide guidance for the future regulation of both categories. In total, 1105 participants’ (comprising 877 registered clinical psychologists and 228 registered counselling psychologists) survey responses were analysed. Findings suggest that counselling and clinical psychologists are more similar than they are different, with responses indicating shared demographic characteristics, areas of overlap in terms of their key activities and theoretical orientations, and their satisfaction with their training and careers. Significant differences, where they did occur, included the race and gender of practitioners time spent on assessment and research emphasis on psychodynamic orientations endorsement of values views on the Scopes of Practice regulations that were promulgated in 2011 and in each specialties sense of distinctiveness. Findings are discussed in the context of vigorous contestation over the Scopes of Practice in South Africa, where access to mental health services remains poor and the profession largely untransformed.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 2009
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 09-03-2016
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 16-05-2018
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-04-2016
Publisher: Wits University Press
Date: 2013
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 04-10-2013
Abstract: Despite a four-decade history, the professional identity of counselling psychology in South Africa remains nebulous. Recent debates surrounding the revised scope of practice for counselling psychology bring the unresolved issue of professional identity back into focus. Rather than developing an idiosyncratic definition of counselling psychology, it is instructive to look at the ways in which the profession is conceptualised internationally. This article analyses the national definitions of counselling psychology in countries in North America, Europe, Australasia, and Asia, where the profession is both formally recognised and established. A thematic analysis reveals two superordinate themes: the different domains of practice that are considered to fall within the ambit of counselling psychology and the values of counselling psychology that are meant to inform this practice. Common domains of practice are development, prevention, and remediation. Prominent values of counselling psychology emphasise strengths, well-being, and the therapeutic relationship, recognise sociocultural and developmental contexts, value ersity and multiculturalism, and promote social justice. While there is an inevitable overlap with other specialities within psychology, counselling psychology is best distinguished not by the clients that are seen but rather by the values that inform practice. Implications for the practice of counselling psychology and mental health service delivery in South Africa are briefly discussed.
Publisher: National Inquiry Services Center (NISC)
Date: 13-08-2010
DOI: 10.2989/17280583.2010.493659
Abstract: The objective of this research is to obtain accurate drinking norms for students living in the university residences in preparation for future social norms interventions that would allow in idual students to compare their drinking to an appropriate reference group. Random cluster s ling was used to obtain data from 318 residence students who completed the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT), a brief, reliable and valid screening measure designed by the World Health Organisation (Babor et al. 2001). The Cronbach alpha coefficient of 0.83 reported for this multicultural s le is high, suggesting that the AUDIT may be reliably used in this and similar contexts. Normative scores are reported in the form of percentiles. Comparisons between the portions of students drinking safely and hazardously according to race and gender indicate that while male students are drinking no more hazardously than female students, white students drink far more hazardously than black students. These differences suggest that both race- and gender-specific norms would be essential for an effective social norms intervention in this multicultural South African context. Finally, the racialised drinking patterns might reflect an informal segregation of social space at Rhodes University.
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 25-01-2016
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 12-2011
DOI: 10.1177/008124631104100408
Abstract: The Clinical Outcomes in Routine Evaluation-Outcome Measure (CORE-OM) was originally introduced as a standardised, practice-based evidence tool for generating effectiveness data by practitioners within the context of routine clinical practice in the United Kingdom's National Health Service (NHS) settings. Following wide application across UK NHS sites the CORE-OM has proven to be a pragmatic measure of both a) gross psychological distress and b) the effectiveness of psychotherapy interventions across client populations, presenting problems, clinical settings and therapy models. However in order for South Africa to benefit from this tool, the CORE-OM must be applicable within a South African context. This requires its validation within South African populations. The aim of this article is to demonstrate the cross-cultural validity of the CORE-OM, using a South African student population s le and in so doing to provide preliminary referential data for use in interpreting CORE-OM scores within English-medium, South African University student counselling centre contexts.
Publisher: African Journals Online (AJOL)
Date: 29-09-2008
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 20-08-2016
Abstract: The translation of well established psychometric tools from English into Xhosa may assist in improving access to psychological services for Xhosa speakers. The aim of this study was to translate the Clinical Outcomes in Routine Evaluation – Outcome Measure (CORE-OM), a measure of general distress and dysfunction developed in the UK, into Xhosa for use at South African university student counselling centres. The CORE-OM and embedded CORE-10 were translated into Xhosa using a five-stage translation design. This design included (a) forward-translation, (b) back-translation, (c) committee approach, (d) qualitative piloting, and (e) quantitative piloting on South African university students. Clinical and general s les were drawn from English-medium South African universities. Clinical s les were generated from university student counselling centres. General student s les were generated through random stratified cluster s ling of full-time university students. Qualitative feedback from the translation process and results from quantitative piloting of the 34-item CORE-OM English and Xhosa versions supported the reduction of the scale to 10 items. This reduced scale is referred to as the South African CORE-10 (SA CORE-10). A measurement and structural model of the SA CORE-10 English version was developed and cross-validated using an English-speaking university student s le. Equivalence of this model with the SA CORE-10 Xhosa version was investigated using a first-language Xhosa-speaking university s le. Partial measurement equivalence was achieved at the metric level. The resultant SA CORE-10 Xhosa and English versions provide core measures of distress and dysfunction. Additional, culture- and language-specific domains could be added to increase sensitivity and specificity.
Publisher: National Inquiry Services Center (NISC)
Date: 07-2012
DOI: 10.2989/17280583.2011.639776
Abstract: To establish the extent to which students typically overestimate normative drinking and to determine whether these estimates are uniquely implicated in alcohol consumption over and above the role of the various demographic and family variables. An online survey was used to obtain a s le of 2 177 students who completed the AUDIT questionnaire along with other items, including three adapted from the AUDIT asking respondents to estimate the descriptive drinking norms of their typical same-sex student. A hierarchical regression analysis was performed to determine the relative contributions of these variables towards in idual student's own consumption scores. Three blocks of variables were entered in temporal sequence, starting with demographic variables, then family variables, followed by the normative estimates. Most students overestimate how frequently their same-sex peers go drinking and how much alcohol they consume on these drinking occasions and how often they consume six or more drinks on one occasion. These normative estimates account for a significant portion of the variance over and above that accounted for by the demographic and family variables. The university should attempt to correct inflated normative estimates of how many drinks a typical same-sex peer has on a typical day when drinking.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 11-2009
Publisher: Wits University Press
Date: 2013
Publisher: Academy Publication
Date: 02-2012
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 03-05-2022
DOI: 10.1177/00812463221091433
Abstract: Despite that counselling psychologists represent a substantial group of registered psychologists in South Africa, literature specifically on the sub-speciality within the country is limited. The aim of this scoping review was to provide a comprehensive summary of the literature available on counselling psychology in South Africa and examine the extent to which literature is available from a lifespan or career-stage perspective. Three electronic databases (EBSCOhost, Sabinet ® , and PubMed) were searched for articles published between 2000 and 2021. Titles and abstracts were reviewed, and data extracted and synthesised thematically. Of 507 citations identified, 10 met the inclusion criteria. Findings indicate that literature on counselling psychology in South Africa is scarce, subject to methodological limitations, and dominated by a small number of authors conducting multiple analyses on the same sets of data. Furthermore, literature on counselling psychologists at key career stages across the professional lifespan is largely missing from the professional discourse. Emphasis is instead placed on counselling psychology as embedded in the sociopolitical history of South Africa, professional identity, the contemporary status of the profession, professional threats and challenges, and the profession’s future promise. Our review highlights the need for more empirically informed studies making use of different methodologies, involving multiple authors with erse backgrounds, tracking employment trends, and soliciting first-person accounts of counselling psychologist’s experiences at key career stages. Without doing so, ideas about how best to support and utilise this particular group of practitioners may be misguided, in turn compromising the successful provision of mental health care within the country.
Location: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Location: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
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