Ito Naoki    Department   Undergraduate School  , School of Arts and Letters    Position   Professor
Language	Japanese
Publication Date	2014/10
Type	Academic Journal
Peer Review	Peer reviewed
Title	Classification of student counseling centers and factors influencing their development
Contribution Type	Sole-authored
Journal	Journal of Japanese Clinical Psychology
Volume, Issue, Page	pp.461-471
Details	Types of student counseling centers in Japanese universities were classified and factors related to their development were investigated. A questionnaire was sent to 729 universities and 356 replies (48.9%) were returned. Of these, data of 268 student counseling centers were analyzed. Factor analysis of the responses indicated six factors: "Administrative interest", "University's history," "Consistency of counselors' beliefs and counseling services," "Autonomy as an organization," "Development," and "Changing times." The Student Counseling Center Formation Scale was constructed on the basis of these factors. Cluster analysis was conducted on the subscale scores of the scale, which indicated five clusters. By examining the characteristics of these clusters, five types of clusters were abstracted: "lacking necessary conditions for providing services," "lacking autonomy as an organization," "having discrepancies in direction of services," and "rich in conditions for providing services." Factors contributing to the development of student counseling centers and dominant services that are provided were examined for each type of center. Based on these results, a common structure for classifying various student counseling centers is proposed.
ISSN	0289-1921