For some people, beating on drums and meditation is a spiritual way to experience their religion on a higher level, which releases a different understanding. In order for a person to maintain their religion on a spiritual level, it is common for religions to use meditation as a tool, which helps people to reach a higher level with their God (Nouwen,2010
In today's modern society, most people take their beliefs to a higher level to understand their God and themselves on a spiritual plane, which makes them open to new ideas of music and dance. From there, religion is not just about finding an understanding of God, it is also about finding one's spirituality, which helps someone to accept and have knowledge of themselves and places them in the right spirituality with God (Sue and Sue,
Furthermore, group members will frequently have no problem with confronting the disruptive member. In fact, "offenders often are better than staff at confronting individuals who are attempting to delude themselves or other regarding treatment" (Jacobs & Spadaro, 2003)
Causality is not definitive and as a result, generalizability of the results is constrained. Moreover, measures were apparently not conducted in other contexts in order to verify that behavior change was occurring in tandem with the therapy (Ardelt & Eccles, 2001; Miller, 1995)
The rest is akin to the proverbial black box. The literature in the field of psychotherapy indicates that different therapeutic techniques account for only about eight to ten percent of the variance in client outcomes (Boeree, 2006; Brann, et al
The study uses a quantitative approach to research and is grounded in positivist theory. The research design is quasi-experimental approach that uses a nonequivalent control group (DePoy & Gitlin, 1998)
, 2010). Research on psychotherapeutic practices increasingly points to the substantive impact that the common factors of therapy have on the therapeutic relationship and on the therapy outcomes of clients (Duncan, et al
The idea of a therapeutic alliance underscores the use of self in therapy (Fusco, 2012). In a relational approach to therapy with children and youth, use of self enables the construction of a "developmentally responsive practice" (Eccles, 2001; Fusco, 2012; Galaif, et al
, 1999). The idea of a therapeutic alliance underscores the use of self in therapy (Fusco, 2012)
, 1982). The Health of the Nation Scales for Children and Adolescents (HoNOSCA) was developed to measure the functioning and health of children and youth who experience mental illness (Gerralda & Yates, 2000)
The four areas evaluated are the goals and topics of the therapy, the counselor's approach to therapy, the therapeutic relationship, and the overall satisfaction with the session. The Strengths and Difficulties (SDQ) is a screening instrument with items that pertain to negative and positive attributes evenly divided across five scales (Goodman, 1999)
The Prosocial score is reported separately based on the single positively oriented scale and the scores from the other scales are combined for a Difficulties score (Goodman, 1999). The Family Apgar (F-APGAR) is a five-item questionnaire developed to assess the levels of satisfaction for family adaptation, partnership, growth, affection, and resolve (Smilkstein, et al
S. Census Bureau allows respondents to self-identify their status as either Hispanic or Latino/Latina (Beam, 2014)
A tendency to develop physical symptoms or fears associated with personal or school problems (Swank & Huber, 2013). Because so many people have some type of disability, between 2% and 10% of all clientele encountered by counselors during their careers will have at least one type of disability (Beecher & Rabe, 2007)
264). Unfortunately, there remains a dearth of relevant and timely curricular offerings concerning the provision of counseling services to members of the transgendered community (Bess & Stabb, 2009)
78). To research to date has been largely unsuccessful in precisely determining the prevalence of transgendered individuals in the United States because the majority of these studies have included people that had been placed on waiting lists for surgery only but were considered transsexuals for the purposes of their analysis without any follow-up to determine actual clinical outcomes (Carroll & Gilroy, 2010)
78). Opponents of inclusion also maintain that the LGB and transgendered cultures are sufficiently distinct and separate that they should not be grouped together (Chung, 2003)
46). Moreover, just 2% of all tenured women in higher education are Latinas, and only 3% of all women in American graduate schools are Latinas (Hernandez & Morales, 2009)
In fact, McCabe and Rubinson (2008) report that harassment of LGBT young people in the nation's schools continues to threaten the physical safety and emotional stability of LGBT youth. Indeed, young LGBT persons are at three times the risk of experiencing a violent attack compared to their heterosexual peers (McCabe & Rubinson, 2008)
37). Indeed, the universality of pain makes it easier for counselors to better understand how a disability affects an individual's worldview and how the disability detracts from a lifestyle, especially if a disability was incurred later in life where before-and-after comparisons plague the consciousness of people (Stuntzer, 2014)