Counseling and Development: Toward a New Identity for a Profession in Transition

Collaborative Consultant: A New Role for Counselors Serving At‐Risk Youths

“…If community counselors are to adopt a collaborative consultant role, it is important that they value and give priority to both the indirect services of education and consultation and the integration of services across agencies and institutions. This shift is supported by Van Hesteren and Ivey (1990), who suggested that consulting skills, family skills, and community development skills are of equal or more importance than counselors' traditional emphasis on individual counseling.…”

Forming a Professional Counselor Identity: The Impact of Identity Processing Style

“…The professional identity of counselors has been recognized as a salient focus in the counseling profession (Gale & Austin, 2003;Hanna & Bemak, 1997;Kaplan & Gladding, 2011;Mellin, Hunt, & Nichols, 2011;Van Hesteren & Ivey, 1990). This focus has two distinct but related areas: a) the identity of counseling as a unified profession (Kaplan & Gladding, 2011;Kaplan, Tarvydas, & Gladding, 2014;Mellin et al, 2011;Reiner, Dobmeier, & Hernandez, 2013), and b) the development of individuals' professional counselor identities (Auxier, Hughes, & Kline, 2003;Gibson et al, 2010).…”

“…The collective identity of the counseling profession has been marked by humanistic roots (Hansen, 2003;McAuliffe & Eriksen, 1999), emphasis on empowering relationships that facilitate human development and wellness (Eriksen & Kress, 2006;Kaplan et al, 2014;Mellin et al, 2011), and a contextual and culturally sensitive approach in counseling practice (ACA, 2014;Eriksen & Kress, 2006;McAuliffe & Eriksen, 1999;Van Hesteren & Ivey, 1990). The distinctiveness of this collective identity has been a central theme in the profession's struggles regarding the medical model and diagnosis of mental disorders (Eriksen & Kress, 2006;Hansen, 2003), the growing demand for empirically validated and empirically-supported therapies (Hansen, 2006(Hansen, , 2012, and the articulation of the counseling profession's unique and valuable contribution to the mental health needs of society (Kaplan & Gladding, 2011;Kaplan et al, 2014;Mellin et al, 2011;Reiner et al, 2013).…”

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“…The professional identity of counselors has been recognized as a salient area of focus in the counseling profession for some time (Gale & Austin, 2003;Hanna & Bemak, 1997;Kaplan & Gladding, 2011;Mellin, Hunt, & Nichols, 2011;Van Hesteren & Ivey, 1990). This focus has manifest in two distinct but related arenas of interest: a) the identity of counseling as a unified profession (Kaplan & Gladding, 2011;Kaplan, Tarvydas, & Gladding, 2014;Mellin et al, 2011;Reiner, Dobmeier, & Hernandez, 2013), and b) the development of individuals' professional counselor identities (Auxier, Hughes, & Kline, 2003;Gibson et al, 2010).…”

“…The collective identity of the counseling profession has been marked by its humanistic roots (Hansen, 2003;McAuliffe & Eriksen, 1999), emphasis on empowering relationships that facilitate human development and wellness (Eriksen & Kress, 2006;Kaplan et al, 2014;Mellin et al, 2011), and a contextual and culturally sensitive approach in counseling practice (ACA, 2014;Eriksen & Kress, 2006;McAuliffe & Eriksen, 1999;Van Hesteren & Ivey, 1990). The distinction of this collective identity has been a central theme in the profession's struggles regarding the medical model and diagnosis of mental disorders (Eriksen & Kress, 2006; …”