Vanessa Placeres

• San Diego State University

The study conducted a 10-year (2011–2021) content analysis of K–12 Black student mental health literature. The analysis aimed to review school counseling literature concerning mental health support for Black youth. Findings revealed that the majority of the qualifying studies had Black students as the sample focus, and most frequently examined prev...

School counselors have a unique role as frontline advocates and change agents who work toward addressing systemic inequities within K‐12 education (Placeres et al., 2022). Racism is the systemic prioritization of Whiteness as the standard of humanness, success, and well‐being. School counselors are responsible for resisting racism in the support of...

Mental health factors can impact student academic performance and success. Student mental health concerns such as depression and anxiety and are a growing concern within P‐12 school systems. The dual pandemics of COVID‐19 and racial injustice have increased concerns about student mental health and exacerbated existing traumas particularly for stude...

The terms religion and spirituality are used interchangeably and often shown as symbols of strength, resiliency, and resistance among Latinxs with intersecting identities who are impacted by various forms of oppression in their daily lives. The authors will explore the shifts that have taken place in the Latinx population, moving away from predomin...

A between‐group, repeated‐measures study compared sections of a career counseling course. One course used a flipped classroom design, while the other used a lecture. The flipped classroom yielded higher ratings of career counseling self‐efficacy and active engagement among students. There were no differences in helping skills self‐efficacy between...

We investigated the relationship between self-reported multicultural competence and social issues awareness among school counselors and raters’ assessment of multicultural orientation skills (cultural humility and cultural comfort) using a recorded mock counseling session. Results revealed a positive correlation between multicultural competence and...

We used multiple regression analyses to explore ways that hope, resilience, and happiness influenced school climate among 380 Hispanic/Latinx students. The results suggested that hypothesized protective factors explained school climate to a greater degree among middle school participants ( R ² = .23) when compared to those in high school ( R ² = .1...

A scarcity of counseling literature examines the impact that mental health symptoms have on school climate perceptions for students in transitional-aged settings, specifically Latinx/Hispanic students. We explored ways that mental health symptoms influenced perceptions of school climate among 216 Middle School Latinx/Hispanic students. The research...

This study investigated the phenomenon of congruence for students of color (N = 6) in master’s‐level counseling programs using interpretive phenomenological analysis. The authors identified 3 main themes: (a) congruence‐facilitating experiences (safety and necessity), (b) congruence‐inhibiting experiences (micro‐ and macroaggressions and risks and...

The present study (N = 621) explored relationships between meaning making (i.e., meaning presence and meaning search) and loneliness in college students who have experienced trauma. In addition, the study examined group differences in meaning variables and loneliness, comparing college students who have and have not experienced trauma. The results...

After several decades of slow progress, researchers are beginning to make advances in linking constructs based on the multicultural competencies tradition—especially those focused on qualities of the therapist—to therapy outcomes. The multicultural orientation framework was developed in response to several trends within the multicultural competenci...

The study of positive psychology provides a strong opportunity for interdisciplinary work that integrates theorizing from theology and psychology of religion. The purpose of the current article is to provide a systematic review of empirical work on humility and religion/spirituality. We review definitions and key research questions that have driven...

In three studies, we developed the Experiences of Humility Scale (EHS). In Study 1, we used exploratory factor analysis to determine the factor structure and to reduce items in a sample of undergraduates (N = 200). The EHS had four subscales: Other-orientation, Transcendence, Awareness of Selfishness, and Awareness of Egotism. Study 2 involved an e...

This chapter reviews one of the more promising contexts, humility at work and explores the role of humility in organizational leadership. It provides an overview of definitions and measures of humility in the work context. The chapter reviews theory and empirical research on the benefits of humility in organizations and describes several exciting a...

Many religious individuals use forgiveness to cope with interpersonal offenses. There has been much work on religion/spirituality and interpersonal forgiveness, but little theory or research has focused on religion/spirituality and intergroup forgiveness. The current study extends a model of relational spirituality to the context of intergroup forg...