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The Counseling Psychologist Template

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About the The Counseling Psychologist format

The Counseling Psychologist is a peer-reviewed journal published by SAGE, covering Counseling Practices and Supervision, Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications, Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology.

PublisherSAGE
Reference styleAuthor–year (Harvard)
Author–year — (Smith, 2023) in the text
Smith, A., Jones, B. and Lee, C. (2023) 'A representative article title', The Counseling Psychologist, 12(3), pp. 45–58.

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Publishes research inCounseling Practices and Supervision Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development Racial and Ethnic Identity Research
ISSN0011-0000
Citation impact (2-yr)1.7
h-index141
i10-index1,415
Total citations108,151
Top institutions publishing hereUniversity of Maryland, College Park
Journal websitetcp.sagepub.com
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Papers published in The Counseling Psychologist per year

53
2014
45
2015
54
2016
63
2017
48
2018
62
2019
59
2020
50
2021
65
2022
52
2023
51
2024
49
2025

Citation impact of The Counseling Psychologist by publication year

1.3K
2014
1.2K
2015
1.8K
2016
1.8K
2017
1.1K
2018
1.6K
2019
806
2020
538
2021
501
2022
391
2023
166
2024
33
2025

Citations each year’s papers have accumulated so far — the most recent years are still building up.

Most-cited papers in The Counseling Psychologist

Scale Development Research

Roger L. Worthington, Tiffany A. Whittaker · 1 Nov 2006

The authors conducted a content analysis on new scale development articles appearing in the Journal of Counseling Psychology during 10 years (1995 to 2004). The authors analyze and discuss characteristics of the exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis procedures in these scale development studies with respect to sample characteristics, factorability, extraction methods, rotation methods, item deletion…

3,862 citations Cite SaveGo to paper →
Qualitative Research Designs

John W. Creswell, William E. Hanson, Vicki L. Plano Clark et al. · 22 Feb 2007

Counseling psychologists face many approaches from which to choose when they conduct a qualitative research study. This article focuses on the processes of selecting, contrasting, and implementing five different qualitative approaches. Based on an extended example related to test interpretation by counselors, clients, and communities, this article provides a detailed discussion about five qualitative approaches—…

3,070 citations Cite SaveGo to paper →
A Guide to Conducting Consensual Qualitative Research

Clara E. Hill, B. J. Thompson, Elizabeth Williams · 1 Oct 1997

The authors discuss the components of consensual qualitative research (CQR) using open-ended questions to gather data, using words to describe phenomena, studying a few cases intensively, recognizing the importance of context, using an inductive analytic process, using a team and making decisions by consensus, using auditors, and verifying results by systematically checking against the raw…

2,863 citations Cite SaveGo to paper →
A Brief Guide to Structural Equation Modeling

Rebecca Weston, Paul A. Gore · 10 Aug 2006

To complement recent articles in this journal on structural equation modeling (SEM) practice and principles by Martens and by Quintana and Maxwell, respectively, the authors offer a consumer’s guide to SEM. Using an example derived from theory and research on vocational psychology, the authors outline six steps in SEM: model specification, identification, data preparation and…

2,702 citations Cite SaveGo to paper →
Racism and Psychological and Emotional Injury

Robert T. Carter · 28 Dec 2006

The purpose of this article is to discuss the psychological and emotional effects of racism on people of Color. Psychological models and research on racism, discrimination, stress, and trauma will be integrated to promote a model to be used to understand, recognize, and assess race-based traumatic stress to aid counseling and psychological assessment, research, and…

1,286 citations Cite SaveGo to paper →

The Counseling Psychologist template — frequently asked questions

How do I write a paper in the The Counseling Psychologist format?
In DocuGuru you write your manuscript in a normal editor — no LaTeX setup required — and select the The Counseling Psychologist template. When you export, DocuGuru compiles the paper into the official SAGE format and hands you a submission-ready PDF along with the editable LaTeX source.
What reference style does The Counseling Psychologist use?
The Counseling Psychologist uses Author–year (Harvard) references, shown as author–year markers such as (Smith, 2023) in the text. DocuGuru formats every in-text citation and the reference list in this exact style automatically. A reference appears like this: Smith, A., Jones, B. and Lee, C. (2023) 'A representative article title', The Counseling Psychologist, 12(3), pp. 45–58.
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No. DocuGuru generates the sagej LaTeX class and compiles the PDF for you in the background, so you get a SAGE-ready The Counseling Psychologist document without writing any LaTeX. If you do want it, the LaTeX source is included in the export.
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