Advising From a Constructive Developmental Perspective

Advisors can enhance development by, first, identifying student\u27s meaning-making assumptions and, second, challenging those assumptions while offering support as students struggle to increase the complexity of meaning making. Constructive developmental theory is offered as a useful framework from which to encourage greater student ownership of the educational planning process. Methods of assessing and enhancing development are suggested. Two cases that depict advising from the constructive developmental perspective are offered

Using Art-Based Multicultural Interventions to Reduce Counselor Trainees\u27 Ethnocentrism

This qualitative research explored the use of the Cultural De-Centering Activity-Visual (CDCA-V) as a means of challenging culture-centrism in a graduate-level multicultural counseling course. Results indicated that the CDCA-V provoked students to question their received norms about religion, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, and/or social class

Using Art-Based Multicultural Interventions to Reduce Counselor Trainees\u27 Ethnocentrism

This qualitative research explored the use of the Cultural De-Centering Activity-Visual (CDCA-V) as a means of challenging culture-centrism in a graduate-level multicultural counseling course. Results indicated that the CDCA-V provoked students to question their received norms about religion, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, and/or social class

Low-Stakes, Reflective Writing: Moving Students into Their Professional Fields

This study examines low-stakes, written commentaries from a graduate counseling course to better understand the role writing plays in the transition from being a student to becoming a professional practitioner. The cross disciplinary research team used methods from Grounded Theory to analyze 60 commentaries and found that: (1) low-stakes, reflective writing revealed changes in self-awareness from Situational Self-Knowledge to Pattern Self-Knowledge (Weinstein & Alschuler, 1985); (2) low-stakes writing provided evidence of students connecting personally to learning and then connecting learning to professional practice; and (3) low-stakes writing encouraged the instructor to make mid-course adjustments to his teaching methods. This study provides empirical evidence that low-stakes writing-to-learn both supports and records the transition students make from hoping to know how to knowing how to imagine themselves in their professional field

Developmental Level as a Predictor of Counseling Skills

What is the relationship between the developmental characteristics of counseling interns and their counseling skills? Thirty master’s-level counseling students in their fieldwork phase were rated by their supervisors on both a measure of developmental level and counseling skills. Results indicated that the construct of Self/Other Awareness was the strongest predictor of counseling skills level. Based on this finding, it can be concluded that counselor supervisees possessing this awareness appear better equipped to deal with the complex problem-solving and social interactions required for successfully counseling clients

Culturally Alert Counseling: A Comprehensive Introduction

The Second Edition of Culturally Alert Counseling is a thorough update to the first comprehensive guide to culturally alert counseling, complete with a companion demonstration DVD. Co-author and editor, Garrett J. McAuliffe expands the traditional definition of multicultural counseling from the usual two categories of race and ethnicity to seven groupings. The book and companion DVD encourage readers to examine the complex nature of culture and how it impacts all stages of the counseling process. [From Amazon.com]https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/chs_books/1005/thumbnail.jp

Culturally Alert Counseling: A Comprehensive Introduction (3rd Edition)

Culturally Alert Counseling: A Comprehensive Introduction is a reader-friendly introduction to the cultural dimensions of counseling and psychotherapy. Editor Garrett McAuliffe, along with international experts in their fields, provides an accessible presentation of culturally alert counseling techniques that broadens the discussion of culture from ethnicity and race to include social class, religion, gender, and sexual orientation. Culture is defined broadly in the text, which features a mindful exploration of seven ethnic groupings, inclusive of all people within dominant and non-dominant cultural groups. The extensively revised Third Edition includes two new chapters on counseling immigrants and refugees and counseling military populations, exposing students to complex cultural developments. With the help of this text, readers will leave informed and ready to begin practice equipped with both a vision of the work and practical skills for effectively implementing it. [Amazon.com]https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/chs_books/1033/thumbnail.jp

Handbook of Counselor Preparation: Constructivist, Developmental, and Experiental Approaches

This definitive single-volume guide is the first of its kind on teaching and developing counselor educator programs that embrace constructivist and developmental theory. Leading scholars and experts offer practical advice on teaching courses in every area of counseling practice. As a result, the book is ideal for current and future counselor educators and supervisors as well as faculty in other helping professions. The authors seek to inspire educators to empower and involve, to risk losing control over subject matter, to hear student voices, to pose dilemmas, and to challenge their own assumptions in the presence of their students using constructivist, developmental, and experiential thinking and strategies. [From Amazon.com]https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/chs_books/1006/thumbnail.jp

Counseling In Ireland

This chapter contains a description of the development of counseling and its current status, including common practices, counselor training, and credentialing. Counseling in Ireland continues to grow in popularity among those seeking services as well as those seeking to join the profession. School counselors provide counseling for students experiencing a range of mental health issues, including depression, anger, bereavement, and bullying. Counselors in private practice work with clients on a one-to-one basis on a broad range of mental health and emotional issues. The provision of community mental health counseling is somewhat patchy and underdeveloped in Ireland, possibly because counseling is a young profession in the country. According to a recent Irish Association for Counseling and Psychotherapy (IACP) membership questionnaire, the average counselor is 45-55 years of age. As for the future of counselor training in Ireland, this whole area is being reviewed by the Higher Education and Training Awards Council