https://ojs.aeducia.org/index.php/ijcp/issue/feed 2025-06-22T00:00:00+07:00 Open Journal Systems <p align="justify"><strong>WELCOME </strong>to the <strong>International Journal of Counseling and Psychotherapy (IJCP)</strong>. Please refer to the <strong>Journal Information</strong> section to learn more about our aims, scope, and publication guidelines. We look forward to your contributions to the advancement 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: #911c40; width: 76.736%; height: 18px; border-color: #ffffff; text-align: center;" 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 International</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;">: <a href="https://search.crossref.org/search/works?q=3064-3465&amp;from_ui=yes" target="_blank" rel="noopener">10.64420/ijcp</a> 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">International Journal of Counseling and Psychotherapy (IJCP) is a peer-reviewed, open-access academic journal dedicated to advancing and disseminating state-of-the-art knowledge in the field of counseling and psychotherapy. The journal aims to serve as a platform for scientific publications, promoting high-quality research findings, supporting evidence-based theory and practice, and providing an academic forum for researchers, scholars, professionals, counselors, psychotherapists, psychiatrists, and college students to explore, share, and discuss critical ideas, strategic issues, innovations, implications, and scientific contributions in counseling and psychotherapy.</p> <p align="justify"><strong>BEFORE SUBMISSION: </strong>Authors must use the IJCP Template, follow Author Guidelines and Editorial Policies, proofread the manuscript, and conduct a similarity check. Proofreading and similarity check results must be uploaded. A signed Author Statement of Ethics Form is also required. Registration and login are necessary for submission and status tracking.<strong><em><span data-preserver-spaces="true"><br /></span></em>EDITORIAL PROCESS: </strong>IJCP follows a double-blind peer-review to ensure academic integrity, quality, and originality. Manuscripts are screened for relevance, originality, and alignment with the journal's scope and ethics, then reviewed by the editorial team and peer reviewers for quality. The process ensures fair, objective, and consistent evaluation.</p> <table style="border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%; height: 54px;" border="1"> <tbody> <tr style="height: 36px;"> <td style="width: 25%; text-align: center; height: 36px; background-color: #ffffcc; border-color: #ffffff;"><strong>Time to First Decision</strong></td> <td style="width: 25%; text-align: center; height: 36px; background-color: #ffe6ff; border-color: #ffffff;"><strong>Review Time</strong></td> <td style="width: 25%; text-align: center; background-color: #ccffcc; height: 36px; border-color: #ffffff;"><strong>Submission to Acceptance</strong></td> <td style="width: 25%; text-align: center; height: 36px; border-color: #ffffff; background-color: #d3d3d3;"><strong>Acceptance to Publication</strong></td> </tr> <tr style="height: 18px;"> <td style="width: 25%; text-align: center; height: 18px; background-color: #ffffcc; border-color: #ffffff;"><strong>1-2 Weeks</strong></td> <td style="width: 25%; text-align: center; height: 18px; background-color: #ffe6ff; border-color: #ffffff;"><strong>2-10 Weeks</strong></td> <td style="width: 25%; text-align: center; background-color: #ccffcc; height: 18px; border-color: #ffffff;"><strong>2-10 Weeks</strong></td> <td style="width: 25%; text-align: center; height: 18px; border-color: #ffffff; background-color: #d3d3d3;"><strong>1-2 Weeks</strong></td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <p align="justify"><strong>PUBLISHING SYSTEM AND PROCESS: </strong>The IJCP utilizes Open Journal Systems (OJS), a platform that streamlines the editorial workflow by providing tools for submission, peer review, and publication. It also supports the open-access dissemination of scholarly content (See <a href="https://ojs.aeducia.org/index.php/ijcp/publishingsystemandprocess" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Publishing System and Process</a>).</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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