TPC Journal V7, Issue 1-FULL ISSUE

94 The Professional Counselor | Volume 7, Issue 1 This resulted in 11 discrete categories: undergraduates, children and adolescents, adults (non-college, 18 years and older), families, men only, women only, clients in addictions treatment, addictions professionals, counseling students, multicultural populations and LGBT populations. To improve the conciseness of the findings, several smaller categories were combined to create the multicultural populations category. A twelfth category was designated for articles that did not include a research sample. Results Research Question 1: To What Extent Do Counseling Journals Address Addictions Topics? Table 1 provides a listing of counseling journals as well as the number of addictions-related articles in relationship to total publication. The percentage of the total number of addictions-related articles in comparison to total number of published articles was 4.5%. As expected, the Journal of Addiction & Offender Counseling ( JAOC ) published the highest percentage of addictions articles (76.1%). The journal with the next highest percentage of addictions articles was the Journal of Military and Government Counseling (13.8%), followed by the Journal of LGBT Issues in Counseling (9.6%), the Journal of College Counseling (8.6%) , and CORE (8.3%). Six journals published less than 1% of their articles on addictions: The Career Development Quarterly (0.0%), Journal of Counselor Leadership and Advocacy (0.0%), Journal for Social Action in Counseling and Psychology (0.0%) , Counselor Education and Supervision (0.5%), Journal of Multicultural Counseling and Development (0.5%) , and Professional School Counseling (0.9%). The authors also examined the first research question by calculating the percentage of addictions- related articles during each year of publication. The number and percentage of addictions articles published for each year is as follows: 2005 ( n = 18; 4.0%), 2006 ( n = 20; 4.5%), 2007 ( n = 20; 4.7%), 2008 ( n = 14; 3.0%), 2009 ( n = 17; 3.9%), 2010 ( n = 21; 4.5%), 2011 ( n = 30; 6.3%), 2012 ( n = 30; 6.4%), 2013 ( n = 20; 4.0%), and 2014 ( n = 20; 4.7%). The percentage of addictions articles remained relatively stable during this period; however, a slight increase in the percentage of articles published on addictions was observed in 2011 and 2012. Research Question 2: What Types of Addictive Behaviors and Content Topics Were Addressed? All seven categories included in the addiction-related content topic variable were represented in the data. The highest number of addictions articles focused on population variables ( n = 57; 27%), or addictions issues within non-clinical groups. The content topics approaches to counseling ( n = 43; 20%) and professional practice issues ( n = 39; 19%) were the second and third most represented categories. Fewer addiction-related articles were published on the following content topics: client variables ( n = 20; 10%), measurement ( n = 18; 9%), effectiveness of counseling and preventative interventions ( n = 17; 8%), and counselor variables ( n = 16; 7%). Additional analysis revealed that among the 18 articles in the measurement category, 14 different assessment instruments were represented. Whereas most instruments ( n = 10) were discussed in only one article each, the Substance Abuse Subtle Screening Inventory-3 (SASSI-3; Miller & Lazowski, 1999) was included in eight of the articles in this category. Three instruments were included in two articles: the Core Alcohol and Drug Survey (Core Institute, 1994), CAGE questionnaire (Ewing, 1984) and the Michigan Alcohol Screening Test (Selzer, 1971). Further, additional analysis of the effectiveness of counseling and preventative interventions category found that only four articles addressed prevention; three of these articles discussed a similar intervention to prevent college student drinking and one presented findings of an evaluation of a school-based substance abuse prevention program.