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Volume 17, Issue 1 - 2023
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Volume 17, Issue 1 - 2023

This issue explores research on a new Anxiety reduction method, ways in which mindfulness can build social resilience in people living with HIV and Aids in Bhutan, looks at the development of professional supervision, and the success of teaching literacy and numeracy to Indigenous communities combined with counselling.

Authors: Karen Phillip, Kunzang Chophel, Kuenga Tenzin, Ann Moir-Bussy, Judith R Boyland, Yvette Carter.

Past Issues

Volume 16, Issue 1 - 2022 This issue has focused on five diverse areas covering multicultural counselling, climate-informed practice, social support for counsellors recovering from substance abuse, communication with End-of-Life persons and families, and male-friendly therapy and masculinity. Click here to download full issue
Volume 15, Issue 2 - 2021 A systematic literature review exploring evolving and emerging themes in vicarious trauma research from 1990 to 2021, Aiming for Safety: Exploring Potential Dynamics within Line Managed Supervision, Identifying the main components of a counselling modality that is culturally appropriate for an Australian Indigenous community, Significance of ancient Indian wisdom and its relation to professional supervision, Depression: A Comparison of Australian and Indian University Students, Counselling and Hypnotherapy: Together for (almost) the first time, Anxiety - A rapidly worsening epidemic, What Makes Grief Complicated? A Review Click here to download full issue
Volume 15, Special Spring Issue - 2021 A Common Oversight: Supervision of Christian Counsellors, Supervision and Vicarious Trauma, Supervision of Social Work in Australia: The Appropriateness of Including Administration, Demonstrating Hope, Compassion, and Justice: Supervision of Family Violence Counsellors in Australia, The Clinical Supervisory Relationship: An Australian Survey of Counsellors and Psychotherapists, Supervision from Two Perspectives: Comparing Supervisor and Supervisee Experiences Click here to download full issue
Volume 15, Special Winter Issue - 2021 Counselling Regulation, Education, Supervision, and Representation in Canada, Counselling Regulation, Education, and Representation in Malaysia, Counseling Regulation, Education, and Representation in the United States of America, The Counselling Profession in the Philippines, Strategic Approaches to Managing the Development of the Counselling Profession in Hong Kong, Counselling in Australia: Counselling Supervisors' Views on the Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats Facing the Profession Click here to download full issue
Volume 15, Issue 1 - 2021 Message in a Bottle: Collective Narrative Practice as Critical Pedagogy in Counselling education; A Conceptual analysis of a Model of Presence within the context of five Health Professions; In defence of anger: A misunderstood relationship; Demographics, Personality traits and satisfaction among altruistic surrogates who carry for strangers; Beyond Multicultural Competency: Pluralistic Multicultural Orientation Treatment (PMCOT); Exploring the Feasibility and Acceptability of BRiTA's Individual and Online delivery Click here to download full issue
Volume 14, Issue 2 - 2020 Examining how music therapists describe providing safety for children and adolescents who have had traumatic experiences: A Critical interpretive synthesis; "Student Perception of Creative Classwork in Counselling and Psychology Courses" A Case Study of Hong Kong undergraduate Students; Alzheimers - Implications for Counselling and Psychotherapy; A Case Study on Sex offending: Indigenous Healing in Qualitative Research; Being "Brilliant Sanity" - My Journal reflection on mindfulness practice; Factors in determining the development of problem gambling and motivation to quit gambling addiction among offenders. Click here to download full issue
Volume 14, Issue 1 - 2020 Mental health, Socio-Political Turmoil, and the place of the counsellor; Coping planning to reduce stigma and support coping after suicide; Are you getting what you need from supervision?; Therapists' Perceptions of Client Outcomes and Therapeutic Alliance in Online Counselling; A Research Study on Parental Psychological Control, Childhood Anxiety, and Self-Perception in Later Adulthood. Click here to download full issue
Volume 13, Issue 2 - 2019 Engaging the resourcefulness of the body: Transmuting regret and self-doubt after abortion;Mindfulness Based interventions and Fibromyalgia - A Literature Review;The impact of mindfulness on counselling sessions in high schools in Bhutan - as seen through the therapists' lens; Supporting clients who have persistent pain: A primer for counsellors; A social constructivist approach to the gathering of empirical data; Loss and Trauma - a journey of transition to inner peace Click here to download full issue
Volume 13, Issue 1 - 2019 Indigenous Trauma Healing: A Modern Model; It's good to go outside: A Review of nature-based child-centred play therapy; Frangible Emotion Becomes Tangible Expression: Poetry as Therapy with Adolescents; Sandplay Therapy: A Safe, Creative Space for Trauma Recovery; Dance Movement Therapy for the Treatment of Depression; Psychodrama: Conception, Evolution, Evidence and Applications Click here to download full issue
Volume 12, Issue 2 - 2018 Phenomenology in Clinical Practice. Collegial Support for Counsellors. Quality of Student Counselling Centre's Services at Sultan Qaboos university: Student's Perceptions. Stepping stones to resilience: supporting children and young people through a life marked by family violence. Mental Health Professionals causal beliefs. Click here to download full issue
Volume 12, Issue 1 - 2018 Rome wasn't built in a day. Shame Off You - A Case Study in the use of Spiritual and Religious Interventions. Parallel Process in Domestic Violence Services. Diverse Learning and the challenge of Inclusive Practices in Higher Education. The use of scripts in Hypnosis Teaching and Practice. Click here to download full issue
Volume 11, Issue 1 - 2017 Emergent mindfulness in managing stress. The ethical issues which must be addressed in online counselling. Click here to download full issue
Volume 10, Issue 2 - 2016 Alzheimer's - Caring for a loved one. Sound sensitivity and nurses in Jakarta. Click here to download full issue
Volume 10, Issue 1 - 2016 Literature Review into the Effectiveness of Hypnotherapy Click here to download full issue
Volume 9, Issue 1 - 2014 Inside the experience of recovering from anorexia nervosa: An interpretative phenomenological analysis of blogs. Click here to download full issue
Volume 8, Issue 1 - 2013 Financial counselling and Indigenous Australians: Unique aspects and concerns. Counselling, Psychotherapy, and Health / Adolescents with an unwanted pregnancy: An experience. Counselling, Psychotherapy, and Health. Click here to download full issue
Volume 7, Issue 1 - 2012 Client Perceptions and Attitudes Toward Computer-based Modes of Psychological Intervention; Australian Internet-based Counselling Services and Their Ethical Compliance. Click here to download full issue
Volume 5, Issue 1 - 2008 Special Issue: The Use of Technology in Mental Health - Michael Flood and Nadine Pelling Guest Editors Click here to download full issue
Volume 4, Issue 1 - 2008 Inaugural 2008 Asia Pacific Rim International Counselling Conference Click here to download full issue
Volume 3, Issue 2 - 2007 Intellectual Disability and Indigenous Special Issue Click here to download full issue
Volume 3, Issue 1 - 2007 Articles based on Peer Reviewed Abstracts for the International Conference on Counselling 2006 and Peer Reviewed Papers from the Counselling Student Essay Competition 2006 Click here to download full issue
Volume 2, Issue 2 - 2006 Grief, Stress, Tobacco Use, AIDS Click here to download full issue
Volume 2, Issue 1 - 2006 Brain Injury, Spirituality, Older Adults Click here to download full issue
Volume 1, Issue 1 - 2005 Counselling in Australia, HIV, Homophobia,and Metaanalyses Click here to download full issue
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