Archival data from 1994 to 2003 were used to examine the Council for Accreditation of Counseling and Related Educational Program's (CACREP) association with professionalism for school counselor educators. Indicators of professionalism included school counselor educators' contributions to the profess
Professionalism's Challenges to Professional Counselors' Collective Identity
β Scribed by Arden Unbrit Gale; B. Diane Austin
- Book ID
- 102287730
- Publisher
- American Counseling Association
- Year
- 2003
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 164 KB
- Volume
- 81
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1556-6678
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β¦ Synopsis
The authors discuss how attaining various standards of professionalism has inadvertently resulted in challenges to professional counselors' collective identity. The authors reviewed interviews with senior contributors to the profession published in the Journal of Counseling & Development, identifying themes in their comments to suggest potential solutions to helping professional counselors find unity in diversity.
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