Question description
A brief description of the one historical event of counseling profession. Explain how this event has impacted the counseling profession today and how it has contributed to shaping the identity of the profession. Finally, make one prediction about the future of the profession, based on your observations or other data about the current state of mental health counseling.
APA format.
Important information for writing discussion questions and participation
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Your initial discussion post should be a minimum of 200 words and response posts should be a minimum of 150 words. Be advised that I grade based on quality and not necessarily the number of words you post. A minimum of TWO references should be used for your initial post. For your response post, you do not need references as personal experiences would count as response posts. If you however cite anything from the literature for your response post, it is required that you cite your reference. You should include a minimum of THREE references for papers in this course. Please note that references should be no more than 5 years old except recommended as a resource for the class. Furthermore, for each discussion board question, you need ONE initial substantive response and TWO substantive responses to either your classmates or your instructor for a total of THREE responses. There are TWO discussion questions each week, hence, you need a total minimum of SIX discussion posts for each week. I usually post a discussion question each week. You could also respond to these as it would count towards your required SIX discussion posts for the week.
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Hi Class,
Please read through the following information on writing a Discussion question response and participation posts.
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Important information on Writing a Discussion Question
- Your response needs to be a minimum of 150 words (not including your list of references)
- There needs to be at least TWO references with ONE being a peer reviewed professional journal article.
- Include in-text citations in your response
- Do not include quotes—instead summarize and paraphrase the information
- Follow APA-7th edition
- Points will be deducted if the above is not followed
Participation –replies to your classmates or instructor
- A minimum of 6 responses per week, on at least 3 days of the week.
- Each response needs at least ONE reference with citations—best if it is a peer reviewed journal article
- Each response needs to be at least 75 words in length (does not include your list of references)
- Responses need to be substantive by bringing information to the discussion or further enhance the discussion. Responses of “I agree” or “great post” does not count for the word count.
- Follow APA 7th edition
- Points will be deducted if the above is not followed
- Remember to use and follow APA-7th edition for all weekly assignments, discussion questions, and participation points.
- Here are some helpful links
- Student paper example
- Citing Sources
- The Writing Center is a great resource
The history of counseling is a fascinating evolutionary process, particularly in relation to how the profession developed, and how quickly it has evolved through the professionalization process during the past half century. Counseling principally evolved as a profession from the development and maturation of specialty areas of counseling practice (e.g., school counseling, rehabilitation counseling, and mental health counseling) that shared a common core of professional competencies and foundational concepts (Hosie, 1995; Myers, 1995; Sweeney, 1995). Historical, philosophical, and societal trends and public policy have all contributed to the development of the various counseling specialties.
Rather than the profession of counseling evolving first, followed by a logical sequence of specialization of practice (as evident in the medical and legal professions), the specialty areas actually emerged first in response to a variety of human needs and were only later conceptualized as belonging to the common professional home of counseling. This unusual sequence of professional emergence has had a direct impact on the institutions, regulatory bodies, and professional associations that represent the profession and the specialty areas of practice. Myers (1995) indicated that specializations in the counseling profession have been based on unique employment settings, clients served, techniques employed, or a blend of required knowledge and client populations. Herr (1999) has suggested that the content of counseling, with whom the counselor works, and the degree to which counseling is seen as a vital and important sociopolitical institution derive from major social, economic, and political themes that affect the individual and group psychology. Thus images, beliefs, narratives, and realities that compose the national macrosystems also have a ripple effect through the subsystems—community, school, workplace, and family—in which people interact with institutions and with other individuals to negotiate their identity, their sense of purpose, and their meaning. (p. x)
For the most part, the counseling specialty areas emerged to address specific client needs within the system and environmental context that Herr (1999) described earlier, and early practitioners in these special practice areas had limited preservice education and supervision, did not have well-defined codes of ethics, were not regulated (certification and licensure), may not have been aware of the values and needs of diverse populations, and did not have access to research that could help define best practices for counselors (Capuzzi & Stauffer, 2008).
Although the term counseling appeared for the first time in print in 1931, the practice of this helping relationship started well before that date. For example, psychological healing was used in ancient Greece and Rome thousands of years ago (Jackson, 1999). Considered an adjacent process of guidance at the beginning of the 20th century, counseling is now considered a profession. It was discussed in the Workbook in Vocations (Proctor, Benefield, & Wrenn, 1931), and added as a supplement to Proctor’s publication Educational and Vocational Guidance (Proctor, 1925), where the word counseling was first introduced (Aubrey, 1982). Today, counseling is a vibrant professional discipline that is taught at the preservice graduate level in accredited university programs throughout the United States. Defined as “a professional relationship that empowers diverse individuals, families and groups to accomplish mental health, wellness, education and career goals” by the 20/20 delegates (Kaplan & Gladding, 2010), a coalition of 31 counseling organizations (ACA, 2015), counseling is currently practiced under state and federal licensure and certification standards and has its own professional organizations, philosophy and principles, professional standards, and ethical codes of conduct. Professional counselors provide services through different specialties in diverse settings (Sweeney, 2001). A series of significant political, social, and cultural events led to these accomplishments.
