Master of Science in Counseling Research

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    College Students and ADHD: Effective Treatments
    (2019-07-25) Lockridge, Rebecca; Drinnon, Joy
    What effective treatment options exist for college students diagnosed with ADHD? This review will provide an overview of current treatments available for college students diagnosed with ADHD, with a special focus on treatments and issues that could be addressed in the context of a college counseling center.
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    Measuring Psychotherapy Outcomes: Feedback to Counselors and Clients
    (2019-05) Buchanan, Lisa; Drinnon, Joy
    Objective: To evaluate methods of measuring psychotherapy outcomes and uses of feedback to improve clinical services to clients in a college counseling center setting. Design: Systematic review of research evaluating use of outcome measures and feedback to counselors and clients. This review focused primarily on RCTs comparing feedback conditions to treatment as usual in university or college counseling center settings. Results: Two well-researched measures were identified: OQ-45 and PCOMS. Feedback to counselors or both counselors and clients using these measures significantly improved outcomes over treatment as usual. Clients achieved clinically significant change more often and in fewer sessions than those clients who did not receive feedback or whose therapist did not receive feedback. This was especially true for those clients at risk for dropout or poor outcomes. Conclusions: Of the two measures, PCOMS was selected as the most practical and effective for use in a college counseling center setting. Routine outcome monitoring and feedback is recommended for current counselors as well as counselors in training. Limitations of the current study and directions for future research are presented.
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    Trauma in Dyadic Relationships and Couple Counseling as Treatment
    (2022-07-10) Worrell, Alynda; Drinnon, Joy
    This systematic review focuses on dyadic relationships, and seeks to answer the following questions: 1) How do traumatic life events impact survivors and partners in dyadic relationships? 2) Is couple counseling an effective treatment for mental health or relationship issues when one or both partners have experienced trauma? The review contains ten articles. Although there is some overlap, six articles focus primarily on trauma outcomes in dyadic relationships and address the first research question. Five articles address the second question, and center around the treatment of trauma. Included are a mixture of qualitative and quantitative research. One study was a randomized control trial (RCT), one was quasi-experimental (pre- and post-treatment data collection), two utilized in-depth interviews and thematic analysis, and one article was a collection of vignettes outlining treatment. The remainder were correlational.