Advancing Counselor Education: Fostering International Perspectives and Open Access Scholarship

Professional counselors and counselor educators have been active in the global mental health movement. This article overviews the history and growth of counselor education internationally and provides a rationale for establishing an open access, peer-reviewed, online journal that fosters international counselor education and supervision

Scope of Practice for Rehabilitation Counseling

[Excerpt] The Scope of Practice Statement identifies knowledge and skills required for the provision of effective rehabilitation counseling services to persons with physical, mental, developmental, cognitive, and emotional disabilities as embodied in the standards of the profession\u27s credentialing organizations

The Contribution of Levinas’ Conception of Responsibility to Ethical Encounter Counselor-Counselee

In fact, humans have always been closely related to others. This relationship can be meant to encounter ethical counselor-counselee which is based on an attitude of responsibility. The concept of Levinas’s responsibility can be laid at the foundation for the ethical relationship of counselor-counselee to contribute and strengthen the concept of responsibility in the literature of guidance and counseling, as well as in counseling practices. Based on the literature review and critical analysis, we found the following results: 1) The helping profession is to be interpreted in the framework of thinking responsibility, and the responsibility of counselor-counselee should be able to be realized in concrete actions and patterned being-for so that it becomes I-for-You (asymmetrical), should not be reversed into a being-with so that it becomes You-to-I (reciprocity/mutuality); 2) Responsibility in the context of multicultural counseling is seen in phenomenological by pointing at reality in awareness counselor (intentionality); 3) Empathy as a major component of the counselor in the basic attitude of its existence takes responsibility for substitution (one-in-the-place-of-another). The responsibility of substitution is the unique and the total responsibility of the counselor-counselee; and 4) Reconciliation as the main goal of responsibility

Testing Models of Counselor Development With a Measure of Counseling Self-Efficacy

Models of counselor development have become very popular, but empirical research has found differences primarily between beginning graduate students and doctoral interns, in the research described here, a counseling self-efficacy instrument was developed and was used to test hypotheses based on self-efficacy theory and models of counselor development, both of which would make similar predictions about increases in counseling self-efficacy resulting from clinical training and experience. The findings include strong reliability and validity evidence for the instrument and several significantly different groups of participants that correspond roughly to the groups hypothesized in stage models of counselor development

Factors Contributing to College Men\u27s Help-seeking

This study sought to explore factors relating to college-men\u27s decision to pursue counseling at a college-based counseling center. In particular, the relationship between percentage of male-counselor\u27s to male college students utilization rates were examined. Analysis revealed no significant correlation between percentage of male-counselor\u27s to male student utilization. Limitations and areas of future research are discussed

Counselor Formation and Gatekeeping Best Practices

Counselor educators and supervisors contribute to students’ development while determining fitness for the profession. How we intervene can either help students work through internal conflicts that prevent them from embracing professional skills and dispositions or undermine that process. Facilitators will interactively engage participants in the application of a developmental framework that maximizes students’ dissonance in service to their counselor identity development process

Graduate Student Impairment: The Impact on Counselor Training Programs

This article focuses on the issue of student impairment in graduate level counselor training programs and the factors that affect it, including: A definition of graduate student impairment; the prevalence of student impairment in counselor training programs; an explanation of the legal consequences when addressing student impairment; organizational issues in universities dealing with this issue; and, the impact of graduate student impairment on the counseling professions

Multicultural Microskills: Implementation on an Existing Design

The governing bodies (CACREP; ACA) of mental health counseling have mandated that multicultural training be added to the counselor education curriculum. Counselor educators have found ways to implement diversity issues into pedagogy using various methods, but there has been a lack of focus on multicultural skills. This article will detail current multicultural pedagogy and assessment, a brief history of microskills, and how counselors can use microskills to enhance multicultural skill development

Connect & Educate

A Message from the President of the Indiana School Counselor Association