Consultation is regarded as an important activity of school counseling. In Japan, various experts should get together, discuss, and support each other to solve the various complicated problems at school. In this study, I am going to think over the effective consultation of teachers to solve the problems of the female junior high school student who must decide what course should take. In this case, although the teacher want to solve the problem, the teacher’s action for the student kept the bad relation between the student and her mother. I shared this vicious circle with the teacher and urged him to change his action to solve the problem. Through this case, we need to think of the system including not only the student and her family but also family and teacher. Giving teachers the opportunity to use their specialty effects on solving problems. I discussed about the possibility to make consultation for teachers effective.

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Diagnosis helps the patient. In this paper, we show that diagnosis have the potential to protect abilities, efforts, and personalities. In one particular case introduced in this study, a mother who was anxious about the son of a high school student who visited a psychiatry who was hiding in the parents talks. In the case, the diagnosis is used successfully as a amulet. The purpose of this study is to examine how the diagnosis works for the case. It is important to focus on the use of the function of the word diagnosis based on pragmatism.

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In this case, IP had been absent a high school for a few days, after she troubled with her boyfriend. Then, her mother came to see school counselor (SC). The mother said, “I hope my daughter to break up her boyfriend”. However, if mother told IP to do so, she argued that her mother did not understand her at all, and did not listen to her mother. SC formulated a bad circle as described above. Then, SC emphasized that IP is kind and great, and her mother appreciate them. SC told the mother how excellent she was and intervened “please send a message to her that you really understand your daughter’s feeling.” After the session, the mother changed how to approach her daughter. Then her reaction was also changed, and they peacefully talked to each other. After all, IP started smoothly to go to school again. The mother regarded that the relationship between her and her boyfriend was complementary communication which means that her boyfriend is in one-up position to control her and her position is one-down. After the session, however, the relationship established in the mother changed into meta-complementary communication which means that the position of IP and her boyfriend seems to be one-up and one-down, respectively. After all, mother could give them the choice to break up or not. And she changed interacting with her daughter, IP started to go to school again.

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After the Great East Japan Earthquake, many citizens experienced severe psychological reactions. This paper describes a three steps model characterized by solution-focused brief therapy sessions. In one particular case, this method was successfully utilized over the course of only two sessions by a therapist who was able to treat and resolve the flashback episodes of an adult female client who saw full recovery and complete normalization of her traumatic symptoms within two years, and all without the use of traditional trauma-oriented treatments. This study examines that particular case, and although there are limitations to this study due to the absence of a control group and its focus on a single case, it remains important and worthwhile to examine the remarkable effectiveness of this three steps model for clients with post-traumatic stress disorder.

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Solution Building Inventory, developed by Smock et al. (2010), was to assess how focus on solution in daily life, and was 14-items, 5-point Likert scale. The purpose of this study was to develop the revised version of Solution Building Inventory Japanese version (SBI-R) and to examine reliability and validity of SBI-R. A total of 800 peoples completed SBI-R, DHS, and LOT-R. As a result, exploratory factor analysis found that SBI-R had one factor structure and was consisted 14-item. Confirmatory factor analysis had an acceptable fit to one factor model. The Cronbach's alpha of SBI was .92 and internal consistency. Moreover, SBI-R was positively correlated with DHS and LOT-R. These results indicated that SBI-R had good reliability and validity as a measure of Solution Building concept.

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Correlations among workplace satisfaction, marital coping, and Work-Life Balance (WLB) were examined based on gender to identify factors affecting workers’ mental health. The results indicated that “job content” in workplace satisfaction and “delegated dyadic coping by the self” as well as “negative dyadic coping by the partner” in marital coping directly affected the mental health of male workers. On the other hand, job content and “delegated dyadic coping of the partner” as well as “negative dyadic coping by the partner” directly affected the mental health of female workers. Moreover, it was suggested that in both men and women, job content and negative dyadic coping by the partner might affect workers’ mental health, mediated by “commitment to work,” which is one WLB factors.

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In this research, the purpose was to examine the influence of father’s image transfer from mother to child ing father image of their child. We focused on two aspects of how to convey father’s image by mother, management side and content side. A questionnaire survey was conducted for 217 college students (97 males, 120 females). As a result of the factor analysis, the management aspect of how to convey father’s image by mother was constructed with "Peaceful" "Callousness" "Involving " "awkwardness" "serious" in management side and "reference to father’s presence" "mother’s perspective to the father" in the content aspect. Covariance structure analysis was conducted to examine the effect of mother’s father image transmission on family function through mediation of father’s image. As a result, it was suggested that referring to father’s day-to-day situation on the content side and "peaceful " "serious" on the management side by mothers promotes family functions by mediating a positive father’s image perceived by their child.

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The purpose of this study is to apply the schema of integrated information theory which explains the stereoscopic phenomena of consciousness to the family system and to examine “what kind of properties the family system with high problem solving abilities possess?”. The integrated information theory assumes that consciousness phenomena are caused by neuron’s differences and interaction. The hypothesis in this study is that “the couple who has the higher score in both difference and communication has higher problem solving abilities and resilience than the other couples”. In study 1, a questionnaire survey was conducted with 111 married couples (average age of 45.04) and in study 2, a questionnaire survey was conducted with 82 college students (average age of 20.14) asking about the relationship between parents. As a result of the analysis, it was shown that there are three differences between the couple: “way of thinking”, “preference” and “ability”. Although the hypothesis of this study was not supported, it was suggested that the couple’s “way of thinking” and “preference” are small and the couple communicates has a positive relationship with problem solving abilities and family resilience. We will discuss the way to catch the difference and advance our study.

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Couples with marital infidelity have received many therapies, but the effective therapies for them were still unclear. The present case study utilized Emotion-Focused Couples Therapy (EFCT) and Empty-Chair Dialogue Intervention (ECDI) for a couple with marital infidelity and aimed to show advantages of ECDI over EFCT. Our case was a Japanese heterosexual couple with husband’s infidelity. The husband also had alcohol abuse and bipolar disorder, whereas the wife assaulted him physically. During the first 6 monthly sessions, they were peaceful but wife’s physical assault suddenly occurred and interrupted the therapy. During the next 5 monthly sessions, EFCT was applied for them, but his hypomanic episode and her physical assault disturbed their emotionally responsive communication during the sessions. During the last 5 biweekly sessions, ECDI was applied for the wife. She imaginary dialogued with the husband’s extramarital lovers, rather than the husband. During the ECDI sessions, she had been able to fall asleep during night and her physical assault on him had been disappeared. Even after the three-year follow up since the ECDI session, her physical assault and his marital infidelity had not occurred. Comparative advantages of ECDI over EFCT were discussed.

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The objective of this study was to develop a new measure of stress response in children, the Comprehensive Stress Response Inventory for Children (CSI-C). The items and response options of the original CSI, which was designed for use with adults, were modified using expressions more accessible to children. This measure was then used to conduct a self-report survey among 500 respondents, who were first-grade elementary to third-grade high school students, located in the Tohoku or Kanto regions of Japan at the time of the Great East Japan Earthquake. A confirmatory factor analysis of the CSI-C demonstrated the validity of its four-factor structure, and Cronbach’s alpha test indicated the scale to be reliable. Concurrent validity was confirmed with both the DSRS-C and PTSSC-15. Finally, cutoff values were determined using an ROC analysis, at 21 points for general stress response and 12 points for disaster stress response. The CSI-C uses a four-factor system, in accordance with prior theory, and our findings suggest that it provides sufficient reliability and validity as a measure of stress response in children.

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In recent years, reports on young people and children who take care of their own parents and grandparents in their homes are getting picked up in the media. Based on the Ministry of Internal Affairs' Employment Structure Basic Survey (2014), it is reported that in Japan there are nearly 180,000 people who have such a role. It has been noted that such young people and children are at high risk of suffering various influences on academic work, employment and even mental health, in connection with engaging in care for their families, the necessity of support has been pointed out from the previous research including the UK. Even in Japan, there are some aspects that are gradually being clarified from the media reports and the interview survey for the parties as mentioned above, but the number of empirical studies is very limited. In this study, we proceeded empirical research on young people and children (hereinafter referred to as Young carer) who provide nursing care and care to such families of diseased and disabled adults, and developed a psychological scale that can be index to contribute to accumulation of useful knowledge for its support. Items were prepared through Japanese translation of the content of young carer of Inventory Revised (YCOPI-R) by Cox et al (2014) and back translation. Using the Internet survey, we analyzed the responses of 174 people (including 59 Young carers) from the obtained data. As a result of factor analysis, the same structure as Cox et al (2014) was observed. It was also shown that reliability and validity are sufficient .It was considered that it is necessary to empirically investigate mental health, relationship with family function and structure, adaptability fulfilled by maturity perceived by the parties, in the future research using the developed scale.

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The purpose of this study is to consider and clarify the affirmative side of self-deprecating humor in daily scenes, focusing on interpersonal relations. We conducted inquiry survey whose subjects are 137 Japanese college students―67males and 70 females (M = 19.33, SD = 1.38). When we conducted covariance structures on effects of interpersonal relations on self-deprecating humor, we found that it was perceived as socially desirable in addition to favorableness and warm feelings if they have entertaining relation and feel happy to be with each other. However, it is showed that use of self-deprecating humor is perceived as lack of self-confidence if they have strong emotional ties. Accordingly, the survey shows that self-deprecating humor is perceived differently according relation between friends and it can be said that it is necessary to use it properly to each friend.

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In this study, we viewed self-directed humor as “Aikido-humor” by using the analogy of martial art, Aikido. The objective of this study is to evaluate its possible application to preventing bullying. A role-play experiment was conducted with 26 groups, each consists of three university students who had friendly relationship with each other, totally 78 subjects. We asked one of the three members of each group to respond with self-directed humor to aggressive utterance made by another while two sets of six-minute conversation under two different conditions: without and with an observer. The result suggests that the aggressive speaker feels like to reduce emotional distance with the respondent who responds to the aggressive utterance with self-directed humor. On the other hand, it was observed that the aggressive speaker doesn’t feel affinity for the respondent when there is a third party who doesn’t involved in the conversation even if the respondent responds with self-directed humor. Thus self-directed humor, here considered as Aikido-humor, may function as a kind of management communication which tends to make the interpersonal relationship of conversing parties negative while maintaining the mood of conversation when there is a third party. However, further consideration would be needed to make it a practical method to prevent bullying because it is also associated with risks such as encouraging aggression and making detection of victims difficult.

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This paper is a brief report on a lecture and workshop, “SFA to suicide prevention” in 8th conference of National Foundation of Brief Therapy held on November 26th and 27th, 2016 at Utsunomiya. A lecturer, Dr. Heather Fiske, gave the workshop on how to encourage clients to get productive choices and to overcome crises of their life: therapists should focus on the slight difference between “intolerable now” and “just barely tolerable after all,” highlight clients’ strengths to keep on living, and not only refrain from suicide but change their frame of problems.

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Irritable Bowel Syndrome; IBS is digestive disorder which causes constipation or diarrhea along with stomachache or discomfort in the abdomen even though no issue on examination of intestines or blood test show and it often happens to teenager. We have clear guidelines from diagnosis to the end of treatment domestically but most of the research on psychotherapy is from overseas and we do not have many researches in Japan. On this report we show the case for session with teenager who was diagnosed with IBS. This is the case where the client stated that he didn’t have clear stress but suffered with the sudden stomachache without known reason and found out how to deal with it himself in the process of understanding the symptoms. We had three sessions including intake session and he showed the improvement and the case was closed. We observed the three points – the construction of rapport using noise, humor and confusion and the psychotherapy approach toward IBS and what changed CL’s attitude.

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People seek self-verification from others. Previous studies suggest that striving for self-verification (e.g., the disclosure of accurate self-information and the preservation of a sense of coherence about oneself in social relationships) functionalizes couple relationships in Western cultures. However, there has been little research on couples in Asian cultures. The aim of this study is to address this gap by examining 46 heterosexual Japanese couples. Attitudes and behaviors regarding striving for self-verification, stress communication, and trust in marital relationships were assessed using a questionnaire. In contrast to previous Western studies, Japanese couples striving for self-verification had a stronger association between the attitudes of wives regarding striving for self-verification and their own trust and stress communication than that of their husbands. The role of Asian wives is also discussed.

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This presentation will describe about the a foster home caused by a disaster of Japan. Many families escaped from area of disaster especially from Fukushima , the area of nuclear disaster. And some of the families, have a situation can’t allow to move, decided to let their children live far place , at foster parents. National Foundation of Brief therapy/Japan have given free counseling for them. and all of the case indicated SFA. The most important of this case is the “compliments to Foster Mother”. Therapist complimented her carefully. About the “hit and bite and kick “, direct Foster Mother below. When the boy hit ex, please ignore and leave from him. But when he “doesn’t”, please hug and talk to him. About the phone, tell the real mother not talk after 9pm and suggest “indirect compliments” that Foster Mother tell Real Mother about the good point of the boy and Real Mother tell the boy on the phone. Then, After 1 month after, There is no problem, no hit and bite, and phone 2 times to RM per day. He enjoying to play the “foster brother and father” everyday. He refused to eat vegetables, but eat all now. He feel pleased to help cooking and housekeeping. The relationship of FM and RM become very good. The therapist praised her effort heartily.

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The effects of social support reciprocity between parents and adolescents on undergraduate students’ independency and depression were investigated. The results indicated that independency increased and the depression score was significantly lower in the group that received and provided more support, compared to the group that received and provided less support. The results of multiple regression analysis indicated social support from adolescents to fathers had negative correlations, whereas, in men, social support from adolescents to mothers had positive correlations with depression scores. Moreover, in women, social support from mothers to adolescents had positive correlations with dependency on parents. Overall, social support from adolescents to fathers had positive correlations with independency.

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Objective: Solution-focused brief therapy (SFBT) has shown treatment effects for a range of clients but not specifically for drug users in Asian populations. We exploratively examined the treatment effects of SFBT on drug use. Methods: Participants were 60 inmates in a Japanese prison who were convicted of a drug-related offense. They were non-randomly assigned to the SFBT group, treatment as usual (TAU) group, or mail feedback (Mail) group. They completed the Stimulant-Relapse Risk Scale and the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale before the start and after the end of these programs. Results: The SFBT and TAU groups showed more improvement on the Stimulant-Relapse Risk Scale than the Mail group did. However, the two groups did not show improvement on the depression scale. Conclusions: SFBT is applicable to Asian drug users. The practical application of SFBT in Asian populations is discussed.

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