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Providing Counseling In A Rural Setting: A New Multicultural Perspective, Danessa Ann Carter
Providing Counseling In A Rural Setting: A New Multicultural Perspective, Danessa Ann Carter
Graduate Research Theses & Dissertations
Counseling research shows a lack of information regarding training counselors to work in rural communities. However, more than 80% of the United States land is considered rural. This appears to be an extremely desperate combination of lack of information and training for a large portion of the country’s population. An additional complication to this dynamic is that neither CACREP standards nor the ACA Code of Ethics mandate any specific trainings or address any specific needs of rural communities.
To improve the understanding of rural community dynamics, this qualitative study explored the phenomenological experiences of counselors working in rural communities. This …