Abstract

Empowering graduate counseling students to alleviate their perceived stress and minimize undesirable health effects may improve their capacity to adapt and successfully manage perceived stress during their training and in their future counseling work. In this nonrandomized pretest/posttest study, Do Something Different, a digital behavior change platform, was used as a mobile health intervention by sending short message service (SMS) texts to change automatic unhealthy behaviors. Perceived stress, anxiety, depression, and behavioral flexibility were measured in a sample of graduate counseling students (N = 123). The program was effective in reducing perceived stress among these students. The findings provide direction for reducing students’ perceived stress by incorporating SMS technology in graduate counseling programs.

摘要

赋予研究生辅导学生以减轻他们感知的压力并最大限度地减少不良健康影响的能力，可以提高他们在培训和未来辅导工作中适应和成功管理感知压力的能力。在这项非随机的前测/后测研究中，数字行为改变平台 Do Something Different 被用作移动健康干预措施，通过发送短信服务 (SMS) 文本来改变自动的不健康行为。在研究生辅导学生样本中测量了感知压力、焦虑、抑郁和行为灵活性（N = 123)。该计划有效地减轻了这些学生的压力。研究结果为通过将短信技术纳入研究生咨询计划来减少学生的压力感知提供了方向。