A gap exists in the counseling profession between research and practice. Community-based participatory research (CBPR) is one approach that could reduce this gap. The CBPR framework can serve as an additional tool for translating research findings into practical interventions for communities and counseling practitioners. Stronger community partnerships between researchers and practitioners will further improve treatment for our clients. The purpose of this study was to develop competencies that would provide the foundations for a training guideline in CBPR. Using the Delphi method, an expert panel achieved consensus on 153 competencies (knowledge, skills, attitudes, activities). Competencies are significant for the profession because they establish best practice, guidelines of service, and professional training.

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Atypical emotional face processing strategies have been observed in people with autism, and it has been suggested that these may extend in milder form to the general population. The relationship between autistic traits (AT) and gaze behaviour was investigated in a neurotypical adult sample who viewed three videos featuring a happy, fearful and neutral face. Eye-tracking data showed that participants looked longer at the faces (relative to the background) in the emotional conditions than in the neutral condition. As predicted, participants spent more time looking at the eyes during the fearful relative to the happy condition, and more time looking at the mouth during the happy condition. AT did not influence viewing patterns, time to first fixation or number of early fixations in any of the videos. We conclude that AT in the general population does not affect visual processing of emotional faces. More complex social scenes may be needed to reveal a relationship between AT and emotional processing.