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Counseling Competencies In Audiology: Important Knowledge, Skills, And Attitudes, Alex R. Meibos
Counseling Competencies In Audiology: Important Knowledge, Skills, And Attitudes, Alex R. Meibos
All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023
The purpose of this study was to identify counseling competencies considered important for audiologists to possess to provide effective counseling in practice. To achieve this, researchers and clinicians with expertise in audiologic counseling, were recruited to participate in a three-round consensus survey. These experts were asked to generate and rate a list of counseling competency items they believed were important for audiologists to possess. In the final round of the study, final consensus was met on 64 counseling competency items (16 knowledge, 35 skills, and 13 attitudinal items) deemed important for audiologists to possess. The results of this study revealed …