Drawing upon social-cognitive theory and the multicultural counseling competency literature, the Multicultural Counseling Self-Efficacy Scale-Racial Diversity Form (MCSE-RD) was developed to assess perceived ability to counsel racially diverse clients. Data were collected from 181 graduate students in counseling-related programs, 41 undergraduate psychology students, and 22 graduate students en...

Islamic Counselling: An Introduction to Theory and Practice by G. Hussein Rassool successfully differentiates Islamic counseling theory from a wide range of mainstream therapeutic models such as psychoanalytic, humanistic, cognitive–behavioral, and solutionfocused approaches. It serves as an introductory guide to support academics, clinicians, paraprofessionals, and students in the understandin...

STUDY BACKGROUND Despite efforts to promote the use of tobacco cessation services (TCS), implementation extensiveness remains limited. This study investigated three factors (cognitive, behavioral, environmental) identified by social cognitive theory as predictors of substance use disorder counselors' likelihood of use versus non-use of tobacco cessation (TC) 5 A's (ask patients about tobacco us...

BACKGROUND Patient delay in seeking treatment for acute coronary syndrome symptoms remains a problem. Thus, it is vital to test interventions to improve this behavior, but at the same time it is essential that interventions not increase anxiety. PURPOSE To determine the impact on anxiety and perceived control of an individual face-to-face education and counseling intervention designed to decr...

BACKGROUND No study comparing short message service (SMS) texts and telephone counseling for patients undergoing total knee replacement (TKR) has been reported. PURPOSE The purpose of the study was to provide postdischarge telephone counseling and SMS texts to TKR patients and to analyze the effects of these services on their knee function (KF), activities of daily living (ADL), and life sati...