What factors contribute to parents seeking mental health support for their child, and how do those factors impact how parents perceive their child’s play therapy outcomes? Using quantitative data from play therapy training clinics, this presentation will discuss how 1) parental motivation to seek treatment for their child, 2) parental competence, and 3) parent-child attachment predict pre- and post-treatment scores on measurements of parental stress and perceptions of their child’s behaviors.
This session presents a pilot dramaturgical narrative inquiry exploring how CES doctoral students construct and revise professional identity within academic culture. Attendees will gain insight into identity as a dynamic, relational process shaped by institutional norms, power, and belonging, and consider implications for creative, arts-based narrative methods in researching and supporting doctoral student development.
This session shares findings from a concept mapping study on counselor education doctoral students’ research self-efficacy (RSE). Results highlight that mentorship, feedback, and collaborative learning strongly influence RSE. Participants will explore how these interpersonal and environmental factors shape research confidence and discuss strategies to create supportive training environments that foster doctoral students’ research self-efficacy and researcher identity development.
Counselor educators often begin their research careers with a practice-based idea: a population they know, a problem they see, an intervention they believe could work. Backcasting inverts conventional research planning by beginning with a desired future state and working backward to map the research steps required to achieve it. This session bridges assessment and research with practice by modeling how to get started without waiting for perfect conditions to begin.
Student-athletes are uniquely vulnerable to a range of mental health symptoms including perfectionistic thinking, identity-related stress, anxiety, and burnout. This presentation draws on research findings to highlight the importance of capturing student-athlete wellness complexities by integrating quantitative and qualitative methodologies. Participants will learn how holistic, narrative research enhances understanding of student-athlete mental health to better inform counseling practice.
