Exploring Latina Clinical Mental Health Counseling Students’ Perceptions of Teaching Practices

Abstract

Researchers conducted in-depth interviews with Latina clinical mental health counseling students to understand perceptions of their instructors' teaching practices. Using an evidenced-based teaching model as a theoretical lens (Malott, Hall, Sheely-Moore, Krell, & Cardaciotto, 2014), researchers highlighted Latina students' experiences, perceptions, and beliefs regarding teaching. Following a discussion, recommendations for researchers and counselor educators to improve teaching practices are provided.

Exploring Latinx College Students' Experiences With High School Counselors

“…Like Crockett and colleagues (2018) and Vela, Fisk, et al (2019), we followed Moustakas's (1994) procedures for data collection and analysis. These procedures were (a) selecting a phenomenon of interest: Latinx college students' lived experiences with their high school counselors; (b) bracketing our research assumptions and values; (c) collecting data from individuals with experiences with high school counselors; (d) analyzing participants' experiences for commonalities; (e) writing a description of what participants experienced; and (f) describing the essence of participants' lived experiences with their high school counselors (Crockett et al, 2018).…”

Counselor Education and Supervision: 2019 Annual Review

“…Conceptual work covered authorship practices of counselor educators (Swank, Houseknecht, & Puig, 2019); competencies with respect to integrated care (Asempapa, 2019); preparation and rationale for interprofessional work and training in the curricula (K. F. Johnson, 2019); research practice partnerships across professions (Hays et al, 2019); integration of evidence-based practices in school counseling using a three-step model promoting practitioner partnerships to promote use of evidence-based practices in fieldwork (Martin et al, 2019); and relationally oriented research agendas integrating evidence-based relationship factors into counselor training and practice, and describing specific counselor behaviors to support practice and research (Parrow et al, 2019). Qualitative studies included experiences with grant funding (Delaney & Gibson, 2019); Latina student experiences, perceptions, and beliefs regarding teaching experiences (Vela et al, 2019); new counselor educator scholarly productivity (Borders et al, 2019); patterns of qualitative research in professional counseling over the last 15 years (Flynn et al, 2019); and the development and application of a collaboration between counseling students and master's students in a writing program (Reese, 2019).…”