Exploring How Counselor Education Programs Support Site Supervisors

CACREP standards require counselor education programs to provide site supervisors with orientation, consultation, and professional development opportunities (PD). Using a nonexperimental descriptive design, we collected data from a national sample of CACREP-accredited programs (N=46, 13.3% response rate) via an online descriptive survey to explore how programs provide such opportunities to site supervisors. The survey contained open-ended and multiple-choice items addressing orientation, consultation, PD, and participants’ opinions on how their program addressed the three domains. We analyzed numerical data using descriptive statistics and open-ended responses using content analysis. We found that most programs offered orientation, consultation, and PD, though site supervisor engagement and methods of implementation varied considerably. Implications for research and practice are discussed in light of the findings

Organizing in the Anthropocene

The functioning of the biosphere and the Earth as a whole is being radically disrupted due to human activities, evident in climate change, toxic pollution and mass species extinction. Financialization and exponential growth in production, consumption and population now threaten our planet’s life-support systems. These profound changes have led Earth System scientists to argue we have now entered a new geological epoch – the Anthropocene. In this introductory article to the Special Issue, we first set out the origins of the Anthropocene and some of the key debates around this concept within the physical and social sciences. We then explore five key organizing narratives that inform current economic, technological, political and cultural understandings of the Anthropocene and link these to the contributions in this Special Issue. We argue that the Anthropocene is the crucial issue for organizational scholars to engage with in order to not only understand on-going anthropogenic problems but also help create alternative forms of organizing based on realistic Earth–human relations

Exploring How Counselor Education Programs Support Site Supervisors

Study Abstract: CACREP standards require counselor education programs to provide site supervisors with orientation, consultation, and professional development opportunities (PD). Using a nonexperimental descriptive design, we collected data from a national sample of CACREP-accredited programs (N=46, 13.3% response rate) via an online descriptive survey to explore how programs provide such opportunities to site supervisors. The survey contained open-ended and multiple-choice items addressing orientation, consultation, PD, and participants’ opinions on how their program addressed the three domains. We analyzed numerical data using descriptive statistics and open-ended responses using content analysis. We found that most programs offered orientation, consultation, and PD, though site supervisor engagement and methods of implementation varied considerably. Implications for research and practice are discussed in light of the findings. Access the published study: https://digitalcommons.sacredheart.edu/jcps/vol15/iss2/

Multivariate Analyses of Attachment to Supervisor, the Supervisory Relationship, and Affect

This de-identified data set contains data from 71 graduate students enrolled in clinical mental health counseling (n=43, 60.6%), clinical psychology (doctoral, n=21, 29.6%), and school psychology (n=2, 2.8%) programs. All students were enrolled in a practicum or internship that involved direct service to clients/patients/students under clinical supervision. Participants completed the following scales: Supervisee Attachment Strategies Scale (SASS; Menefee et al., 2014), Positive and Negative Affect Schedule (PANAS; Watson, Clark, & Tellegen, 1988), Short Supervisory Relationship Questionnaire (S-SRQ; Cliffe et al., 2016). For more information on this dataset, please email [email protected]. To reference this work: McKibben, W. B., Austin, J. L., Sorsher, Y., & Gallo, K. (2022). Multivariate analyses of attachment to supervisor, the supervisory relationship, and affect. [Manuscript under review]

Exploring CSI Chapter Leaders’ Development Toward Leadership Excellence

This poster describes a study that explored the leadership experiences of fifty student leaders from various chapters of Chi Sigma Iota (CSI). The methodology of content analysis was used to determine the extent to which participants endorsed elements of CSI’s Principles and Practices of Leadership Excellence in their responses to open-ended questions about their leadership experiences. Attendees will learn of the results from the study and implications for leadership development in counselors-in-training

A Content Analysis of CSI Chapter Efforts to Promote Counselor Leadership Development

Counselor leadership is vital to advancing the counseling profession. The Council for Accreditation of Counseling and Related Educational Programs has required leadership development as part of counselor training; however, little is known about how leadership skills are acquired in counselor preparation. Based on a content analysis of data from 136 Chi Sigma Iota chapters, leadership skill building efforts were identified. Implications for training and research are provided