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Brittany Putnam Gerringer – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Weight discrimination, the maltreatment of individuals perceived to have larger sized bodies driven by both implicit and explicit biases about weight, is a growing issue in society with deleterious effects for individuals of size (Andreyeva et al., 2008; Hatzenbuehler et al., 2009; Puhl & King, 2013; Swift et al., 2013; Tomiyama, 2014).…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Self Efficacy, Counselor Training, Body Weight
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Agran, Martin; Root-Elledge, Sandra; Moody, Eric; Ginn, Hannah; Estrada-Reynolds, Victoria – Education and Training in Autism and Developmental Disabilities, 2020
Although the right to vote is guaranteed for all U.S. citizens of voting age, a significant number of adults with intellectual disability do not vote. The purpose of the present study was to replicate a previous study conducted by Agran, MacLean, and Kitchen-Andren (2015), which examined the extent to which adults with intellectual disability in a…
Descriptors: Voting, Civil Rights, Intellectual Disability, Adults
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Harrison, Mark Gregory – British Journal of Guidance & Counselling, 2022
School-based counselling is an effective intervention for psychological distress in adolescents, but little is known about the processes leading to a therapeutic change in a Chinese sociocultural context. Twenty-five Chinese senior secondary school students and eight school counsellors in Hong Kong were interviewed, and the data were analysed…
Descriptors: Counselor Attitudes, Student Attitudes, Emotional Disturbances, Cultural Context
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Koçyigit, Melike – International Online Journal of Education and Teaching, 2021
Discussing the concept of the gender-sensitive counselor is still very new in Turkey. As a new development gender equality course has been added to the counselor undergraduate curriculum as a selective course since 2018. This research aimed to reveal that if this new development is a really effective step to train gender-sensitive counselors. This…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Gender Bias, Counselor Training, Sex Role
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Arora, Prerna G.; Kelly, Jennifer; Goldstein, Thalia R. – Psychology in the Schools, 2016
This study sought to assess current and future school psychologists' attitudes toward and preparedness to address the needs of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) students in schools. Two-hundred seventy-nine school psychologists (n = 162, 58%) and school psychology graduate students (n = 117, 42%) were included in the study.…
Descriptors: School Psychologists, Counselor Attitudes, Homosexuality, Graduate Students
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Orte, Carmen; Ballester, Lluís; Amer, Joan; Vives, Marga – British Journal of Guidance & Counselling, 2017
To ensure close adherence to the contents of a family-based cognitive-behavioural programme, and maintain a high standard of quality in its implementation, it is important that practitioners' attitudes and beliefs regarding family skills coincide with those of the programme. This paper describes and analyses (observed) potential changes in these…
Descriptors: Counselor Attitudes, Counselor Training, Family Counseling, Cognitive Restructuring