J. Scott Young

**Education: PhD, Counseling and Counselor Education, University of North Carolina at Greensboro--MEd, Counseling and Educational Development, University of North Carolina at Greensboro--BA, Business Administration, University of North Carolina at Charlotte **Research Interests (selected): Spirituality, religion and counseling practice--Alternative/experiential counseling modalities--Survey research

There are 26 included publications by J. Scott Young :

TitleDateViewsBrief Description
Absolute Versus Tentative Interpretations: Mediating Effects of Client Locus of Control 2001 2767 An analog design was used to investigate the mediating effects of client locus of control (i.e., an internal focus or external focus) on perceptions of counselor style of interpreting events (i.e., absolute or tentative interpretations) on measures o...
Brain Wave Biofeedback: Benefits of Integrating Neurofeedback in Counseling 2012 5294 Consistent with the 2009 Standards of the Council for Accreditation of Counseling and Related Educational Programs, counselors must understand neurobiological behavior in individuals of all developmental levels. This requires understanding the brain ...
Breathwork as a Theraputic Modality: An Overview for Counselors. 2010 2642 Using the breath as a vehicle for accessing psychological material Is a topic rarely discussed In the counseling literature, despite the use of conscious engagement with the breath by many spiritual traditions for the purpose of personal transform...
Clinical Behaviors for Addressing Religious/Spiritual Issues: Do We Practice What We Preach? 2013 4015 To determine if counselors integrate clinical behaviors for addressing religious/spiritual issues in counseling consistent with their ratings of the importance of such behaviors, the authors conducted a national survey of American Counseling Associat...
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and the Treatment of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: Where Counseling and Neuroscience Meet 2012 7104 There is increasing evidence to support the biological basis of mental disorders. Subsequently, understanding the neurobiological context from which mental distress arises can help counselors appropriately apply cognitive behavioral therapy and other...
Conservative Christians' Expectations of Non-Christian Counselors 2002 3102 In this study of conservative Christians' expectations of counseling, 100 participants rated their expectations of the behaviors and attitudes of a non-Christian counselor. Results suggest that highly religious Christians expected more in-session ...
Externally Funded Research in Counselor Education: An Overview of the Process 2012 2269 “Publish or perish” is a phrase familiar to untenured and tenured faculty alike. In recent years, prominence has been placed on academicians to secure external funding for their research and training projects. The counselor education field has not be...
Family-of-origin characteristics among women married to sexually addicted men 2002 11016 Two groups of women (one group married to sexually addicted men and the other group married to nonsexually addicted men) were compared to examine differences in family-of-origin characteristics. It was found that women married to sexually addicted me...
The Impact of Metaphor on Clinical Hypothesis Formation and Perceived Supervisor Characteristics 1998 3192 An analogue methodology was used to examine clinical hypothesis formation and perceived supervisor characteristics when metaphorical or literal language was used by a counselor supervisor.
The impact of a supervisor-generated metaphor on the clinical hypothesis formation skills of counselors-in-training 1996 260 The purpose of this study was to assess the impact that a narrative analogy metaphor, when generated by a counselor supervisor, would have on the clinical hypothesis formation skills of counselors-in-training. Thirty first year, second semester, mast...
Inclusion of Religious Behaviors and Attitudes in Counseling; Expectations of Conservative Christians 2005 2055 In this study of 118 religiously conservative Christians' expectations of counseling, participants were randomly assigned to 1 of 2 treatment conditions: a Christian counselor or a counselor whose religious beliefs were unknown. Participants rated...
The Inclusion of Spiritual Process in Counseling and Perceived Counselor Effectiveness 2001 3467 In this study, client level of spirituality was examined as a potential moderater for the effectiveness of including spiritual process in the counseling process. Using an analogue design, participants were crossed on self-reported level of spirituali...
Influences of spirituality on counselor selection 2000 3752 The influence of participants' spirituality on their choice of a counselor was investigated. Sixty-three university students completed the Human Spirituality Scale, which is a global measure of spirituality. Participants also completed the Counselor ...
The intentional use of metaphor in counseling supervision 1999 6005 In this multiple case study, the intentional use of metaphor in supervision was examined to determine its impact on (1) supervisees’ recall of supervision events, (2) supervisees’ perceptions of the effectiveness of supervision, and (3) supervisees’ ...
Mentoring promotion/tenure-seeking faculty: principles of good practice within a counselor education program 2011 3718 Approaches to mentoring junior faculty in counselor education departments have received minimal attention in the counseling literature. In this article, the authors describe a successful program based on the 10 principles for good mentoring recommend...
The Moderating Relationship of Spirituality on Negative Life Events and Psychological Adjustment 2000 6301 The authors used a path model to examine how spirituality moderates relationships between negative life experiences and psychological adjustment, operationalized for this study as levels of depression and anxiety. Results suggest that spirituality pr...
Preparing Counselors-in-Training for Private Practice: A Course in Clinical Entrepreneurship 2013 3142 To date, few scholars in counselor education have attended to the processes and impacts of introducing business-related concepts within counseling curricula. The authors describe the development, implementation and evaluation of a graduate-level cour...
A Proposed Framework Based on Literature Review of Online Contextual Mental Health Services to Enhance Wellbeing and Address Psychopathology During COVID-19 2020 2012 Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) became a pandemic and is causing unprecedented biopsychosocial, spiritual and economic issues across the world while mostly affecting unprivileged populations. Turkey has gradually implemented new regulations, which slo...
The relationship of moral reasoning style to counselor expression of empathy 2000 4277 Results in the literature indicate that high levels of moral development are positively correlated with high levels of empathy. However, the issue of moral reasoning style and its relationship to empathy remains unclear. The role that moral reasoning...
The Relationship of Spirituality to Cognitive and Moral Development and Purpose in Life: An Exploratory Investigation 1998 8122 In this exploratory study of 152 undergraduate students, the relationships among spirituality, cognitive and moral development, and existential sense of meaning were examined. Results suggest that no relationship exists between spirituality and cogni...
Relationships Between Adult Workers' Spiritual Well-Being and Job Satisfaotion: A Preliminary Study 2006 4166 The authors studied the relationships between adult workers' spiritual well being and job satisfaction, Two hundred participants completed 2 instruments: the Spiritual Well-Being Scale (C, W. Ellison & R. F, Paloutzian, 1982) and the Minnesota Sat...
Single-subject research design for school counselors: Becoming an applied researcher 2002 16459 During the past decade, there has been discussion over the need for outcome research documenting the work of school counselors and the lack of research delineating the work of school counselors (Baker, 2000; Fairchild, 1993; Green & Keys, 2001; Myric...
Spiritual and Religious Competencies: A National Survey of CACREP Accredited Programs 2002 2390 In this study of 94 Counsel for Accreditation of Counseling and Related Educational Programs (CACREP)-accredited counselor education prograns, 69% of respondents reported their programs addressed spiritual and religious issues; however, only 46% of C...
Spirituality and Counselor Competence: A National Survey of American Counseling Association Members 2007 9302 A random sample of 505 American Counseling Association (ACA) members completed a questionnaire thaI evaluated respondents' ratings of the importance of 9 competencies developed at the Summit on Spirituality (G. Miller, 1999; "Summit Results," 1995)...
Spirituality in counselor training: A content analysis of syllabi from introductory spirituality courses 2004 7682 The authors discuss the results of a content analysis of 14 syllabi of introductory courses on spirituality in counseling. Course syllabi were examined to determine trends in the content of these courses and to determine it the instruction is consist...
The work activities of professional school counselors: Are the national standards being addressed? 2005 4652 This national study was designed to identify school counselors’ perceptions of the importance of performing work activities that promote students’ academic, career, and personal/social development. Furthermore, this study investigated how frequently ...