Telephone counsellor volunteer stressor scale

The supplement to Developing the Psychiatric Nurse Job Stressor Scale

Background: We developed a supplemental version of the Psychiatric Nurse Job Stressor Scale (PNJSS) to assess job stressors related to difficulty in supporting the future lives of patients, physical environment of the psychiatric ward and medical accidents in the psychiatric ward and tested its reliability and validity. Methods: We made a questionnaire of 11 items and analyzed the responses fro...

A community peer-volunteer telephone reminder call to increase breast cancer-screening attendance.

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To assess the effect of a tailored telephone reminder call by community peer volunteers on mammography rates in women who do not attend a breast cancer-screening program. DESIGN Individual-level randomized trial. SETTING Four semirural communities in Belgium. SAMPLE Women aged 50-69 years who had not had a mammogram. METHODS Women in the usual care (control) arm recei...

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Age, Gender, and Ethnicity of Counsellor Trainees and Corresponding Counselling Self-Efficacy: Research Findings and Implications for Counsellor Educators

This study explored the counselling self-efficacy of students in a counsellor education programme, in regard to age, gender, and ethnicity characteristics. To assess counselling self-efficacy, the Counselling Self-Estimate Inventory (COSE) of Larson et al. (Counsellor Education & Supervision 41: 120-130, 1992) was administered at the end of a semester to counselling students engaged in differen...

The Importance of PRI Therapy for the Pastoral Counsellor

It is not always easy for pastoral counsellors to help people change. Often people have become stuck in their ways. Recent developments in the field of brain research help explain why change is difficult. This article discusses Past Reality Integration Therapy (PRI), a psychotherapeutic method that integrates recent findings of brain research and offers an important addition to the work of (pas...