Adolescents, Social Class, and Counseling
Matthew A. Diemer and Brooke A. Seyffert
This chapter critically reviews the relations between social class and how youth resolve developmental tasks in the opportunity structure—school engagement, the postsecondary transition, and career ...
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Body Image Disturbance During Pregnancy and the Postpartum Period
Kelly C. Allison and David B. Sarwer
Body image disturbances are common among women in the general population. Less is known about their prevalence and impact during pregnancy. This chapter examines the history of body image ...
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Career Issues and Social Class
Justin C. Perry and Eric Wallace
Building on the contributions of previous reviews of social class in career development and vocational psychology, the purpose of this chapter is to provide a thorough and critical analysis of ...
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Child and Adolescent Mental Health Care
Michael Kölch, Jörg M. Fegert, and Ulrike M.E. Schulze
In child and adolescent mental health care, the competing goals of protecting young people as a vulnerable population and their increasing legal autonomy constitute a specific ethical ...
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Cognitive and Psychosocial Assessment, Social Class, and Counseling
Megan Foley Nicpon
Psychological assessment informs many domains, including education planning, psychological diagnosis, and counseling intervention. It involves the integration of various sources of information so ...
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Crisis Intervention, Social Class, and Counseling: Macrolevel Disaster Effects
Gargi Roysircar, Margaret Podkova, and Vincent Pignatiello
This chapter takes a macrosystemic perspective, using the ecological contexts of class, gender, human development, cultural norms, media, and societal prejudices to analyze large-scale mass trauma. ...
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Examining the Role of Ethnicity, Culture, and Social Class in Violence and Aggression in the United States
Sopagna Eap Braje and Gordon C. Nagayama Hall
According to crime statistics, ethnic minorities are disproportionately the perpetrators and victims of violent crime relative to European Americans. This chapter examines the intersection between ...
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Future Directions for Scholarship in Social Class and Classism in Psychology
William M. Liu
Applied psychologists and counselors need to move beyond simple indices of social class to explore the intrapsychic and interpersonal dimensions related to this cultural construct. The affluent, ...
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Geropsychology, Social Class, and Counseling
Jacqueline K. Olthoff
The older adult population is quickly growing, increasing the likelihood that generalist counseling psychologists will be treating those over 65 years old. Therefore, regardless of specialty, it is ...
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Group Leadership Teaching and Training: Methods and Issues
Nina W. Brown
Literature searches produced few evidence based studies on group leadership teaching methods. The consensus from professional experts is that group leadership training encompasses three ...
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Health Psychology, Social Class, and Counseling
Elizabeth M. Altmaier, Jessica A. Lohnberg, and Torricia H. Yamada
Social class is a variable of increasing relevance and importance in counseling psychology, related closely to assessment methods and interventions that focus on health-related goals. Although social ...
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Immigration and Social Class
Oksana Yakushko
The following chapter discusses the role of social class in understanding immigration. Specifically, the author highlights the complexities of understanding social class and its influence and its ...
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The Impact of Social Class on Parenting and Attachment
Alissa Sherry, Andrew Adelman, Lauren Farwell, and Brittany Linton
Attachment theory is a psychological, evolutionary, and behavioral theory concerning relationships between people. It is thought to play a significant role in shaping one's life, personality, and ...
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Inequality, Poverty, and Counseling Practice
Laura Smith, Alison Shellman, and Rebecca Smith
When counselors work in the context of poverty, consideration of the impact of social class inequality in clients' lives is essential to effective practice—as is the impact of inequality within the ...
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International Issues, Social Class, and Counseling
Ayşe Çiftçi, Alexandra Broustovetskaia, and Laura Reid
In this chapter, we present the complexities of social class in relation to international individuals. More specifically, we present specific characteristics of different international individuals ...
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Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Issues, Social Class, and Counseling
David H. Whitcomb and Daniel J. Walinsky
Social class is an important construct for understanding lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) issues. In this chapter, the authors provide an overview of LGB issues in the United States from a ...
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Measurement and Methodological Issues in Social Class Research: A Call for Theorization and Study
Michael Y. Lau, Rosa J. Cho, Jennifer Chang, and Jill Huang
Counseling and psychology researchers have been increasingly called to attend to social class and related constructs (e.g., classism) as important variables in research. This chapter discusses the ...
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Men’s Issues, Social Class, and Counseling
David J. Wimer and Ronald F. Levant
This chapter demonstrates the double disadvantages associated with being a working-class man, who experiences the disadvantages of being poor combined with the increased health and social risks ...
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The Online World, the Internet, Social Class, and Counseling
Belle Liang, Nicole Duffy, and Meghan Commins
The Internet has transformed the day-to-day experience of many individuals across cultural divides and socioeconomic backgrounds, creating new opportunities, resources, relationships, and ...
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Positive Psychology, Social Class, and Counseling
Jennifer Teramoto Pedrotti
In the field of positive psychology, many researchers believe that perception, development, manifestation, and interpretation of strengths are strongly influenced by various cultural facets, ...
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