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To describe discharge readiness and determine whether self-efficacy, social support, and the quality of discharge teaching can predict discharge readiness among patients with mild-to-moderate ischemic stroke.

Little is known about the process by which clients and therapists make termination decisions. The purpose of this study was to explore clients' and counselors' termination decisions and experiences in counseling. Twelve clients and their counselors (N = 5) from five university counseling centers in Taiwan were interviewed about their termination experiences. Qualitative data from the interviews were analyzed. The results suggested four main types of termination - mutual, client-initiated, counselor-initiated, and forced termination. Clients in the mutual and client-initiated termination categories reported feeling ready to terminate counseling and felt that the termination process was positive. Their considerations for termination were largely based on perceived change and termination intentions over time. The participating counselors expressed both positive and negative feelings about termination. Their considerations for termination were based on their general termination beliefs, perceived client change, perceived client willingness to end, and other termination cues. Termination decisions are a multi-faceted process, with clients and therapists expressing overlapping, but different reasons for wanting to discontinue treatment. Implications and future directions are discussed., Author(s): Pei-shan Lee [sup.1] , Li-fei Wang [sup.2] , Joshua K. Swift [sup.3] Author Affiliations: (1) grid.412047.4, 0000 0004 0532 3650, Center for Teacher Education, National Chung Cheng University, , [...]

The development and consequences of licensure for counseling psychologists in Taiwan are presented to promote cross-cultural awareness surrounding issues in the counseling psychology profession. The national licensure statute for counseling psychologists in Taiwan was established by the Taiwanese Legislature in 2001. While the licensing system marked an important milestone, it also brought forth a number of internal and external conflicts to the counseling psychology profession in Taiwan. The paper consists of four parts. First, it introduces the development of the Counseling Psychology profession and licensure in Taiwan. Second, challenges triggered by the statute of counseling psychologists are considered. Third, the profession's strategic response to these challenges is addressed. Finally, the profession's ongoing post-licensure development is presented. We hope this article facilitates further exchanges of initiatives undertaken by international colleagues to consolidate the ethical practice of the Counseling Psychology profession in different parts of the world.

This research consisted of 3 studies, with a sample of over 3,000 Taiwanese college students, aimed at developing and validating a situation-specific Collectivist Coping Styles (CCS) inventory from an Asian perspective. The results from the exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses supported a stable 5-factor structure of the CCS: (a) Acceptance, Reframing, and Striving; (b) Family Support; (c) Religion-Spirituality; (d) Avoidance and Detachment; and (e) Private Emotional Outlets. These factors reflected Asians' use of a combination of primary and secondary control efforts and represented different constellations of items than typically found on coping-problem solving inventories in Western countries. Estimates of concurrent and construct validity suggest the CCS is related to a problem solving inventory, an overall problem resolution index, 2 psychological distress measures, and an index of how much the trauma interfered with the lives of participants in conceptually expected directions but is not strongly related to social desirability. Overall, the CCS was found to be a useful and psychometrically sound measure of collectivistic coping. Limitations and future directions are also discussed.