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The Development Of Professional Responsibility In Counselor Training, Ryan Bowers, Helen Hamlet
The Development Of Professional Responsibility In Counselor Training, Ryan Bowers, Helen Hamlet
International Journal on Responsibility
Responsibility in the field of counseling is a complex, multi-faceted concept which includes responsibility to the client, responsibility to the profession, and responsibility to the self. These responsibilities encompass the profession’s global role, the call to establish consistent professional requirements, the American Counseling Association’s Code of Ethics, the developmental process of student skill acquisition and professional identity development, and the curriculum and training requirements of counselor education programs. Following a general exploration of responsibility in counselor education, this article focuses on when and how counselors-in-training (CITs), as they grow in counseling skills and professional identity through coursework and mentoring and …
Sojourners In This Place: An Explanatory Sequential Mixed-Methods Study Examining Foreign-Born And Immigrant Experiences Of Acculturation And Professional Identity Development In Counseling, Mina Attia
Dissertations, 2014-2019
There are 42 million foreign-born individuals residing in the United States (U.S. Census Bureau, 2013), making up a total of 13% of the population. Within the counseling profession, the latest demographic information (Data USA, 2017) reports that Caucasians make up 70.4% of counselors in the United States while African Americans make up 19.5%, Asians 3.4%, and shared ethnicity is 3 %. American Indians make up 0.6%, Hawaiian 0.1%, and the remainder (2.8%) are identified as “other.” The immigration experience is marked by a sense of loss and a process of acculturation. However, there is scant literature that discusses the adjustment …