Connectedness: A Review of the Literature With Implications for Counseling, Assessment, and Research

By Katharine C. Townsend, B. McWhirter. 2005

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Social Psychology

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Social connectedness as a source and consequence of meaning in life (2016, background): “The importance of social connectedness for mental health has long been acknowledged in counseling research and practice (Townsend & McWhirter, 2005).”
Relation of career adaptability to meaning in life and connectedness among adolescents in Hong Kong (2015, background): “This feeling of connectedness can have very many benefits for a person's development, including social support, self-esteem, confidence, motivation, self-efficacy, resilience and the development of productive attitudes and values (Townsend & McWhirter, 2005).”
The association between social relationships and depression: a systematic review. (2015, background): “Thus, it refers more to subjective feelings and attitudes towards oneself in relation to the social context, rather than specific social relationships (Townsend and McWhirter, 2005; Williams and Galliher, 2006).”
Social Connection and Compassion: Important Predictors of Health and Well-Being (2013, background): “Already in adoles 422 social research cence, low social connection is associated with problem atic interper sonal behavior (see Townsend and McWhirter 2005,195).”
Need for belonging, relationship satisfaction, loneliness, and life satisfaction (2008, background): “Given such dependency on relationships with others, it is not surprising that factors such as belongingness and loneliness are important predictors of psychological health (e.g., Baumeister & Leary, 1995; Ernst & Cacioppo, 1999; Townsend & McWhirter, 2005).”
The conceptualisation of school and teacher connectedness in adolescent research: a scoping review of literature (2018, background): “…have been considered important human needs, which are satisfied by means of positive stable interactions with others (Baumeister and Leary 1995; Townsend and McWhirter 2005) and the definition of belonging in the recent metanalysis by Allen et al. (2016) included both student–teacher…”
Relational-Cultural Theory: A Framework for Bridging Relational, Multicultural, and Social Justice Competencies (2008, background): “The notion of “connectedness,” an essential consideration in RCT, is embedded in traditional and contemporary counseling scholarship (Coy & Kovacs-Long, 2005; Townsend & McWhirter, 2005).”