https://ojs.aeducia.org/index.php/ijcp/issue/feed 2025-06-22T00:00:00+07:00 Open Journal Systems <p align="justify"><strong>International Journal of Counseling and Psychotherapy (IJCP)</strong> is an open-access, peer-reviewed academic journal dedicated to disseminating state-of-the-art knowledge in the field of counseling and psychotherapy. The journal aims to serve as a platform for scientific publication, promote high-quality research findings, support evidence-based practices, and provide an academic space for researchers, academics, professionals, counselors, psychotherapists, psychiatrists, college students, and practitioners to explore, share, and discuss critical ideas, strategic issues, novelty, implications, and scientific contributions in the field of counseling and psychotherapy through a scientific approach.</p> <table style="height: 310px; width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse; background-color: ffffff;" border="1"> <tbody> <tr style="height: 18px;"> <td style="background-color: #74084c; width: 76.736%; height: 18px; text-align: center; border-color: #ffffff;" colspan="3"><span style="color: #ffffff;">JOURNAL INFORMATION</span></td> </tr> <tr style="height: 18px;"> <td style="width: 18.0555%; height: 18px; background-color: #f3f3f3; border-color: #ffffff;"> Journal Title</td> <td style="width: 40.4513%; height: 18px; background-color: #f3f3f3; border-color: #ffffff;">: International Journal of Counseling and Psychotherapy</td> <td style="width: 18.2292%; height: 292px; background-color: #f3f3f3; border-color: #ffffff;" rowspan="14"><img style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" src="https://ojs.aeducia.org/public/journals/1/journalThumbnail_en_US.png" alt="" width="217" height="312" /></td> </tr> <tr style="height: 18px;"> <td style="width: 18.0555%; height: 18px; background-color: #f3f3f3; border-color: #ffffff;"> Journal Initials</td> <td style="width: 40.4513%; height: 18px; background-color: #f3f3f3; border-color: #ffffff;">: IJCP</td> </tr> <tr style="height: 18px;"> <td style="width: 18.0555%; height: 18px; background-color: #f3f3f3; border-color: #ffffff;"> Journal Abbreviation</td> <td style="width: 40.4513%; height: 18px; background-color: #f3f3f3; border-color: #ffffff;">: Int. J. Couns. Psychother.</td> </tr> <tr style="height: 18px;"> <td style="width: 18.0555%; height: 18px; background-color: #f3f3f3; border-color: #ffffff;"> ISSN Int. Centre</td> <td style="width: 40.4513%; height: 18px; background-color: #f3f3f3; border-color: #ffffff;">: Online ISSN <a href="https://portal.issn.org/resource/ISSN/3064-3465" target="_blank" rel="noopener">3064-3465</a> - Print ISSN <a href="https://portal.issn.org/resource/ISSN/3064-271X" target="_blank" rel="noopener">3064-271X</a></td> </tr> <tr style="height: 18px;"> <td style="width: 18.0555%; height: 18px; background-color: #f3f3f3; border-color: #ffffff;"> Publication Frequency</td> <td style="width: 40.4513%; height: 18px; background-color: #f3f3f3; border-color: #ffffff;">: Triannually (i.e., in April, August, and December)</td> </tr> <tr style="height: 18px;"> <td style="width: 18.0555%; height: 18px; background-color: #f3f3f3; border-color: #ffffff;"> Language</td> <td style="width: 40.4513%; height: 18px; background-color: #f3f3f3; border-color: #ffffff;">: English</td> </tr> <tr style="height: 23px;"> <td style="width: 18.0555%; height: 23px; background-color: #f3f3f3; border-color: #ffffff;"> DOI Prefix</td> <td style="width: 40.4513%; height: 23px; background-color: #f3f3f3; border-color: #ffffff;">: by <a href="https://www.crossref.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Crossref</a></td> </tr> <tr style="height: 23px;"> <td style="width: 18.0555%; height: 23px; background-color: #f3f3f3; border-color: #ffffff;"> Focus &amp; Scope</td> <td style="width: 40.4513%; height: 23px; background-color: #f3f3f3; border-color: #ffffff;">: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outline_of_counseling" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Counseling</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychotherapy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Psychotherapy</a> </td> </tr> <tr style="height: 23px;"> <td style="width: 18.0555%; height: 23px; background-color: #f3f3f3; border-color: #ffffff;"> Citation Analysis</td> <td style="width: 40.4513%; height: 23px; background-color: #f3f3f3; border-color: #ffffff;">: <a href="https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=list_works&amp;hl=en&amp;user=juJx_XsAAAAJ" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Google Scholar</a>, Dimensions</td> </tr> <tr style="height: 23px;"> <td style="width: 18.0555%; height: 23px; background-color: #f3f3f3; border-color: #ffffff;"> Indexing and Abtracting</td> <td style="width: 40.4513%; height: 23px; background-color: #f3f3f3; border-color: #ffffff;">: GARUDA, --&gt; View More</td> </tr> <tr style="height: 23px;"> <td style="width: 18.0555%; height: 23px; background-color: #f3f3f3; border-color: #ffffff;"> License Terms</td> <td style="width: 40.4513%; height: 23px; background-color: #f3f3f3; border-color: #ffffff;">: <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" target="_blank" rel="license noopener noreferrer">Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International</a></td> </tr> <tr style="height: 23px;"> <td style="width: 18.0555%; height: 23px; background-color: #f3f3f3; border-color: #ffffff;"> System &amp; Management</td> <td style="width: 40.4513%; height: 23px; background-color: #f3f3f3; border-color: #ffffff;">: <a href="https://pkp.sfu.ca/software/ojs/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Open Journal System (OJS)</a> - <a href="https://www.budapestopenaccessinitiative.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Open Access Journals</a></td> </tr> <tr style="height: 23px;"> <td style="width: 18.0555%; height: 23px; background-color: #f3f3f3; border-color: #ffffff;"> OAI</td> <td style="width: 40.4513%; height: 23px; background-color: #f3f3f3; border-color: #ffffff;">: <a href="https://ojs.aeducia.org/index.php/ijcp/oai?verb=ListRecords&amp;metadataPrefix=oai_dc" target="_blank" rel="noopener">index.php/ijcp/oai</a></td> </tr> <tr style="height: 23px;"> <td style="width: 18.0555%; height: 23px; background-color: #f3f3f3; border-color: #ffffff;"> Publisher</td> <td style="width: 40.4513%; height: 23px; background-color: #f3f3f3; border-color: #ffffff;">: Academia Edu Cendekia Indonesia (AEDUCIA)</td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <p align="justify"><strong>BEFORE SUBMISSION:</strong> The author must ensure that the manuscript has been prepared using the IJCP Template and that it fully complies with the Author Guidelines and Editorial Policies. The manuscript must also be carefully proofread and subjected to a similarity check. Both the proofreading certificate and the similarity check result must be uploaded as supplementary files during the submission process. In addition, the author is required to submit a signed Author Statement of Ethics Form, endorsed by all contributing authors. Only manuscripts that meet the IJCP standards will be considered for further processing. <a href="https://ojs.aeducia.org/index.php/ijcp/user/register" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong>REGISTRATION</strong></a> and <a href="https://ojs.aeducia.org/index.php/ijcp/login" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong>LOGIN</strong></a> are required to submit items online and check current submissions' status.</p> https://ojs.aeducia.org/index.php/ijcp/article/view/274 2025-06-18T00:56:22+07:00 Adaobi Jennifer Iloakasia iloakasia@gmail.com Denata Viana da Conceicão Conceicão@gmail.com

<p><strong>Background:</strong> The sudden death of a parent is a deeply traumatic event for children, often causing significant emotional and psychological disruptions that hinder their development and academic performance. <strong>Objective:</strong> This study investigated the psychological and emotional impacts of sudden parental death on children. <strong>Method:</strong> Using a descriptive survey design, data were collected through the validated Sudden Parental Death Impact Assessment Questionnaire (SPDIQ), with high internal consistency (α = 0.85, 0.72, 0.81). SPSS v25 was used to analyze responses via descriptive statistics, ANOVA, and Pearson correlation. <strong>Results:</strong> Findings showed that emotional shock, isolation, fear, and suicidal thoughts were among the most reported effects, along with depression and academic decline. Moderate, statistically significant correlations existed between sudden parental death and both emotional and psychological distress. <strong>Conclusion:</strong> The study confirms that sudden parental death has a measurable and distressing impact on children, irrespective of the background of the supporting counselor. <strong>Contribution:</strong> This research contributes empirical evidence to child grief literature by quantifying the emotional and psychological effects of sudden bereavement while also challenging prevailing assumptions about counselor effectiveness.</p>

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