Introduction to the Special Issue: Integration of Practice, Advocacy, and Research in Counseling Psychology

2021 ◽  
Vol 49 (7) ◽  
pp. 946-957
Author(s):  
Shavonne Moore-Lobban ◽  
Anneliese A. Singh ◽  
Mary O’Leary Wiley
Keyword(s):  
Counseling Psychology ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Counseling Psychologists

In this article, we introduce the special issue of The Counseling Psychologist on the integration of practice, advocacy, and research in counseling psychology. This special issue was driven by Dr. Shavonne Moore-Lobban’s project as a member of the Society for Counseling Psychology Leadership Collaborative. The aim of the special issue is to highlight the unique practice, advocacy, and research contributions of practitioners, and specifically focus on the integration of the three roles of everyday counseling psychologists. There are six practitioner-led manuscripts that strengthen a focus within counseling psychology of the integration across the three roles, and through the diverse lens of counseling psychologists as therapists, supervisors, educators, researchers, program developers, and advocates. The development of this special issue is reviewed. We provide a brief summary of the manuscripts and discuss implications for continued integration.

Counseling Psychology and Neuropsychology

1992 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 549-555 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul C. Larson ◽  
Albert A. Agresti
Keyword(s):  
Counseling Psychology ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Knowledge And Skills ◽  
Professional Responsibilities ◽  
New Knowledge ◽  
Traditional Counseling ◽  
Counseling Psychologists

This article introduces a special issue of The Counseling Psychologist on the increasing involvement of counseling psychologists in neuropsychology. The rationale for this special issue is based on the dual premises that preparing counseling psychologists in neuropsychology is consistent with the historical emphases of the specialty and that changing professional responsibilities require the acquisition of new knowledge and skills to enable counseling psychologists to continue their involvement in traditional settings and clinical activities. The experience of counseling psychologists actively involved in providing neuropsychological services within traditional counseling psychology employment settings and clinical actvities leads them to argue that to meet changing professional responsibilities and expectations counseling psychologists need to develop minimal competency in neuropsychology.

Digital Storytelling Methodologies: Recommendations for a Participatory Approach to Engaging Underrepresented Communities in Counseling Psychology Research

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jillian Fish ◽  
Moin Syed
Keyword(s):  
Counseling Psychology ◽  
Quantitative Methods ◽  
Digital Storytelling ◽  
Psychology Research ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Arts Based Research ◽  
Social Justice Advocacy ◽  
Marginalized Communities ◽  
Five Phases ◽  
Counseling Psychologists

While counseling psychologists made substantial proposals to advance qualitative research since the special issue on related-methods was published 15-years ago (Haverkamp et al., 2005), the field continues to demonstrate an overreliance on quantitative methods. Though important for producing knowledge we can depend on, excessive use of these methods poses a barrier for counseling psychologists to address the needs of the communities that are at the core of our discipline’s values – those who are marginalized and underserved in society. In alignment with our values of social justice, advocacy, and empowerment, we propose counseling psychologists adopt a methodology within a critical paradigm to better address issues of inequality and inequity when working with underrepresented communities, such as digital storytelling. Rooted in a movement to increase access to art for marginalized communities in the 1970s and 80s, digital storytelling is an arts-based research methodology that captures first-person narrated accounts of peoples’ lives through the use of stories, photos, and videos, and empowers communities to be a part of research to create social change. We provide recommendations for using digital storytelling in counseling psychology research as outlined through five phases, including 1) digital storytelling’s critical paradigm, 2) project development, 3) implementation, 4) data analysis, and 5) dissemination. While doing so, we draw on examples from two digital storytelling projects we are familiar with, Immigrant Stories and OrigiNatives, providing a framework for a digital frontier in counseling psychology research.

A Call to Action

2011 ◽  
Vol 39 (8) ◽  
pp. 1193-1202 ◽  
Author(s):  
William D. Parham
Keyword(s):  
Counseling Psychology ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Political Advocacy ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Call To Action ◽  
Counseling Psychologists

The ascendance of large-scale disasters, catastrophes, and traumas as a concentrated focus of academic inquiry in counseling psychology is timely, and this special issue and subsequent investigations represent welcome areas of scholarship. The observations and comments herein salute the authors for responding to a post-Katrina discovery by counseling psychology of the heretofore localized and less than systematic responses to large-scale disasters, catastrophes, and traumas. Extensions to and invited elaborations on the collective observations of this team of authors are offered for consideration. This article also doubles as an invitation to counseling psychologists to put into action programs, procedures, policies, and political advocacy aimed at tapping and sustaining the hope and resilience of national and international communities forced to reconcile sudden and life-changing devastation.

Future Shock: Counseling Psychology in a VUCA World

2017 ◽  
Vol 45 (7) ◽  
pp. 1048-1058 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruth E. Fassinger ◽  
Sandra L. Shullman ◽  
Lydia P. Buki
Keyword(s):  
Future Study ◽  
Counseling Psychology ◽  
Current Knowledge ◽  
The State ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Counseling Psychologists

This article represents the conclusion of our special two-part issue of The Counseling Psychologist focused on leadership in counseling psychology. In this article, we reflect upon the state of leadership in counseling psychology as captured in the articles in this special issue. First, we explain the concept of a VUCA (volatile, uncertain, complex, ambiguous) world and why it is important to considerations of leadership by counseling psychologists. Next, we comment on each of the articles that comprise this two-part special issue, noting their strengths, relevance to current knowledge about and concepts of leadership, and questions that remain unanswered and thus ripe for further study. We conclude with recommendations for leadership-related efforts in counseling psychology as a field. It is our hope that this brief critique provides directions for future study and action regarding leadership in counseling psychology.

White Supremacy and Counseling Psychology: A Critical–Conceptual Framework

2019 ◽  
Vol 47 (4) ◽  
pp. 478-529 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrick R. Grzanka ◽  
Kirsten A. Gonzalez ◽  
Lisa B. Spanierman
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
Counseling Psychology ◽  
White Supremacy ◽  
Theoretical Perspective ◽  
The United States ◽  
Helping Professions ◽  
White Clients ◽  
Racial Progress ◽  
Counseling Psychologists

The mainstreaming of White nationalism in the United States and worldwide suggests an urgent need for counseling psychologists to take stock of what tools they have (and do not have) to combat White supremacy. We review the rise of social justice issues in the field of counseling psychology and allied helping professions and point to the limits of existing paradigms to address the challenge of White supremacy. We introduce transnationalism as an important theoretical perspective with which to conceptualize global racisms, and identify White racial affect, intersectionality, and allyship as three key domains of antiracist action research. Finally, we suggest three steps for sharpening counseling psychologists’ approaches to social justice: rejecting racial progress narratives, engaging in social justice-oriented practice with White clients, and centering White supremacy as a key problem for the field of counseling psychology and allied helping professions.

Early Professionals in Counseling Psychology

1992 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 47-52 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Edward Watkins
Keyword(s):  
Counseling Psychology ◽  
Role Overload ◽  
Academic Counseling ◽  
Counseling Psychologists

This article considers some of the issues and concerns that confront academic counseling psychologists during the early professional years (6 to 10 years post-Ph.D.). Tenure, competency, role overload/burnout, and mobility issues are briefly discussed. Where appropriate, strategies or coping techniques for dealing with these issues and concerns are presented.

Achieving Ethnic Parity in Counseling Psychology

1996 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 230-258 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donald R. Atkinson ◽  
Michael T. Brown ◽  
J. Manuel Casas ◽  
Nolan W. S. Zane
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Minority ◽  
Minority Students ◽  
Counseling Psychology ◽  
Psychology Programs ◽  
Ethnic Minority Students ◽  
The Future ◽  
Counseling Psychologists

With the increasing diversification of the population comes an increased need for ethnic minority psychologists. Most counseling psychology programs will have to dramatically increase the numbers of ethnic minority students they enroll and faculty they hire to achieve parity and meet the need for more ethnic minority counseling psychologists in the future. This article describes the preconditions and strategies needed to recruit, to select, and to support ethnic minority students and faculty in counseling psychology programs.

The Benefits and Challenges of Becoming Cross-Culturally Competent Counseling Psychologists

2006 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 147-172 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. Paul Heppner
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Competence ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Counseling Psychology ◽  
The United States ◽  
Knowledge Bases ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Culturally Competent ◽  
Mental Health Needs ◽  
Different Populations ◽  
Counseling Psychologists

The central thesis of this article is that focusing on cross-cultural competence will enhance both the science and the practice of counseling psychology. Developing cross-cultural competence is a lifelong journey, replete with many joys and challenges, that will (a) increase the sophistication of our research, (b) expand the utility and generalizability of the knowledge bases in counseling psychology, (c) promote a deeper realization that counseling occurs in a cultural context, and (d) increase not only counseling effectiveness but also the profession’s ability to address diverse mental health needs across different populations around the globe. In the future, (a) counseling psychologists will be expected to have an array of cross-cultural competencies, which emphasizes the need to systematically train students to acquire such competencies, and (b) counseling psychology will no longer be defined as counseling psychology within the United States, but rather, the parameters of counseling psychology will cross many countries and many cultures.

New and Early Professionals in Counseling Psychology

1992 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Glenn E. Good
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Students ◽  
Counseling Psychology ◽  
Psychology Graduate Students ◽  
Employment Setting ◽  
Counseling Psychologists

The type of employment setting chosen by counseling psychologists has been in flux during recent years. This issue of The Counseling Psychologist examines the issues encountered by new and early counseling psychologists employed in five settings. The settings examined are those that counseling psychology graduate students indicate they most prefer for their initial employment. In this issue, the authors, all of whom are new and early professionals, responded to the same set of stimulus questions about the professional and personal issues they encountered. This article provides an overview of the issues faced by new and early counseling psychologists, regardless of their employment setting.

Social Justice and International Competencies: Positioning Counseling Psychologists for the Global Era

2019 ◽  
Vol 47 (4) ◽  
pp. 608-629 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chiachih DC Wang ◽  
Ayşe Çiftçi
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Counseling Psychology ◽  
Process Model ◽  
Global Era ◽  
Systemic Process ◽  
The Cross ◽  
International Social ◽  
Cross National ◽  
Counseling Psychologists

In this article, we attempt to draw a connection between social justice and international competencies within counseling psychology. Built on Constantine et al.’s general social justice competencies as well as the cross-national cultural competences model and dynamic-systemic-process model of international competencies, nine international social justice competencies are outlined and their relevance in international contexts is highlighted. In addition, three specific mindsets for the enhancement of international social justice work by U.S.-based counseling psychologists are discussed. We believe that by promoting the integration of social justice and international competencies, future counseling psychologists will be better prepared for the global era.

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