Keeping Up With The Counseling Profession Current Issues
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Keeping Up With The Counseling Profession: Current Issues on the National Level www. counseling. org/kaplan
David Kaplan ACA Chief Professional Officer dkaplan@counseling. org 2015 VCA Conference
Overarching Issue: How do we move forward together?
Professionalization The social process by which any trade or occupation transforms itself into a true profession -Ashley Crossman, Ph. D Sociologist About. com
Counseling Professionalization Benchmarks • Circa 1908 - Named • 1913 - First professional organization • 1952 - Specialties coalesce under one association • 1961 - Code of ethics
• 1971/1981 - Counselor preparation accreditation • 1976 - First state licensed • 1982 - Establishment of a certification body • 1985 - Establishment of a national honor society
• 2009 - All 50 states and DC licensed • 2010 - Consensus definition of counseling • 2013 - Consensus licensure title & scope of practice
• 2013 - CACREP & CORE become corporate affiliates • 2017 - CACREP & CORE merge
Professionalization: A recent focus on counselor preparation • 2010 - VA requires CACREP accreditation • 2012 - TRICARE requires CACREP accreditation for independent practice
• 2012 - NJ briefly requires CACREP for licensure • 2013 - CACREP requires a counselor education degree for new core faculty • 2022 – NCC requires a CACREP degree
Changes in State Laws • Beginning in 2018 - you will need a degree from a CACREP accredited school to obtain a license in Ohio. • A petition was filed in 2014 with the Virginia Board asking for a CACREP requirement to obtain licensure • Kentucky, Georgia, and North Carolina have also introduced CACREP requirements.
Which has lead to some consternation and panic over jobs • Teaching • Practicing
Teaching • Counseling Psychologists
Psychology & counselor education accreditation THE COUNSELING PSYCHOLOGIST VOL. 41, NO. 5, JULY 2013
Articles • Quality of Master’s Education: A Concern for Counseling Psychology? • Looking to the Future – The role of Master’s Programs in Counseling Psychology • Integrating Master’s Education in Counseling Psychology for Quality, Viability, and Value Added • Legitimizing and Reclaiming Master’s Training and Education in Counseling Psychology: An Urgent Concern
Contributing to the ambivalent relationship of counseling psychology to masters training… -Jackson & Scheel, p. 676
In some situations, the master’s training programs were developed …to help fund the doctoral training program. -Palmer, p. 703
In some cases, master’s programs help pay the bills for doctoral education…in difficult economic times, counseling psychology doctoral programs without master’s programs may be easier to cut -Jackson & Scheel, p. 687 & 688
To maintain CACREP accreditation when budget cuts are required, deans and other administrators…may prioritize master’s over doctoral programs since master’s training is less expensive than doctoral training. -Jackson & Scheel, p. 682
…such developments do threaten counseling psychology programs… -Jackson & Scheel, p. 682
The new MCAC accreditation standards may serve to promote a new direction for counseling master’s education…consistent with core values and contributions of counseling psychology -Jackson & Scheel, p. 681
It is questionable…whether we will be able to avert eventual professional annihilation…as a profession we are experiencing THE RECKONING -Palmer, p. 701 & 704
Clinician concerns • Non-CACREP degree • 48 credit CACREP degree • Master’s degree in counseling psychology
Pushback
Alternative Counselor Education Credentialing
Masters in Psychology and Counseling Accreditation Council (MPCAC)
MPCAC counseling programs • U of Albany - mental health counseling • Eastern University - clinical counseling & school counseling • Felician College - counseling psychology
MPCAC counseling programs • Fordham University - mental health counseling & school counseling • Lehigh University - counseling and human services • U of Massachusetts Boston- mental health counseling & school counseling
MPCAC counseling programs • U of Missouri-Kansas City - counseling and guidance • New York University - counseling for mental health and wellness & counseling and guidance • Saint Martin’s University - education & counseling psychology • U of Wisconsin-Milwaukee – counseling
Advocacy • Counseling psychology program coalitions • Coalition of Concerned Counselors • Individuals
How do we move forward together?
The 20/20 Building Blocks to Portability Project • Consensus licensure title • Consensus licensure scope of practice
ACA’s answer to moving forward together
Moving Forward…. . To unify the profession, ACA endorses graduation from a CACREP/CORE accredited program as the pathway to licensure.
Together…. . ACA advocates that all counselors licensed by July, 2020 are qualified to have the same options and privileges as graduates from CACREP and CORE programs.
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Keeping Up With The Counseling Profession: Current Issues on the National Level www. counseling. org/kaplan
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