Globalization and Counseling: Professional Issues for Counselors

Abstract

The respective roles of social cognitive career theory and cognitive information processing in career exploratory behavior were analyzed. A verified path model shows cognitive information processing theory's negative career thoughts inversely predict social cognitive career theory's career problem-solving self-efficacy, which predicts career exploratory behavior. The model suggests an intervention sequence to facilitate college student career development and exploration. A hypothetical case is provided as well as a depiction of the cycle of information processing in career decision making.

Critical Guidelines for U.S.-Based Counselor Educators when Working Transnationally: A Delphi Study

“…Consultation and research are other ways USCEs interact with counseling professionals around the globe (Leung et al 2009;Lorelle et al 2012). Consultation, in this context, involves sharing knowledge and expertise for organizational development.…”

“…Counseling is expanding and professionalizing in many countries around the globe (Lorelle et al 2012;Leung et al 2009). Concurrent with this global expansion, U.S.-based counselor educators (USCEs) increasingly are working with other helping professionals and faculty peers around the world for mutual learning and support.…”

Postcolonial Theory and Humanism: A Framework for International Work in the Counseling Profession

“…Over the past few decades, the phenomena of globalization and, subsequently, internationalization within higher education have expedited the expansion of global experiences for counseling professionals (Lorelle et al, ; Tang et al, ). At the most basic level, globalization refers to the enhanced connection and interaction of people around the world, whereas internationalization can be understood as organizational responses to globalization (Knight, ).…”

“…The effects of globalization and the growth of the counseling profession internationally have created more contexts in which counselors interact and work (Lorelle et al, ; Norsworthy, Leung, Heppner, & Wang ; Tang et al, ). Numerous trends in the profession demonstrate these developments.…”

“…International work in the counseling profession is expanding within counselor education and clinical practice (Lorelle, Byrd, & Crockett, ; Tang et al, ). Many U.S.‐based counselor educators research, teach, and work abroad; and many U.S.‐trained counselors work as professional counselors outside of the United States.…”