Editorial

Abstract

This editorial represents a taking over the editorship of Asia Pacific Journal of Counselling and Psychotherapy and a summary of the articles contained within. Kent Smith and KeithTudor from New Zealand explore the ongoing debate of registration of counsellors, this time in Aotearoa, New Zealand. Poi Kee Low examines‘School counselling in Singapore: teachers’ thoughts and perceptions’. Inna Reddy Edara from Taiwan examined the‘Mediating role of individualism–collectivism in spirituality’s relation to motivational forgiveness’. Doungmani Congruksa, Penrapa Prinyapol, SayanSawatsri and Chanya Pansomboon investigated a model of‘Integrated group counsellingto enhance mental health and resilience in Thai army rangers’. From Kyoto in Japan, Nicolas Tajan investigated adolescents’ school non-attendance and the spread of psychological counselling in Japan’. Christopher Sharpley, Vicki Bitsika and David Christie look at the implications for psychotherapy for prostate cancer patients reporting depressive symptoms in‘The relative influence of patients’ self-reported depressive symptoms of cognitive deficit and cognitive bias on total depression in prostate cancer patients: implications for psychotherapy interventions’.Graham Whitehead explores the challenges of a psychotherapeutic training environment for practitioners in his article‘Developing enabling environments in practitioner training. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)