Silver to Gold: The Alchemy, Potential, and Maturing of ACES and CES

Abstract

Exponential changes in Western and international society and in American and international education afford promise, opportunity, and challenges for tomorrow's counselor. Roles of counselors, counselor supervisors, and counselor educators must reflect and shape the needs and growth of populations in specific countries and throughout the world to afford timely and appropriate responses and intelligent and sensitive proactivity. Leadership in services, teaching, research, credentialing, policy, and law all seem to be areas of potential contribution and growth for the counselors, counselor educators, and counseling supervisors of tomorrow.Exponential change of an unprecedented rate and magnitude has been a major dimension of the 1980s and has rushed most of international society and almost all of Western society into the start of a new era laden with uncharted paths and frontiers. Those old enough can no doubt recall the potent stimulus of the Russian launching of Sputnik prompting President John Kennedy to predict and mandate further exploration. Despite recent and previous tragedies in space programs, aviation, and related contemporary frontiers, the human quests for greater knowledge and understanding of time, motion, and space continue as potent and marvelous areas for inquiry and accomplishment. Equally impressive are changes throughout science in such areas as genetics, computer science, medicine, and laser physics. These and related technological advances have truly altered the world in a brief time.Dramatically underscoring the absolutely unprecedented pace of change, Gellatt (1983) drew the analogy of the human race being only 1 hour old, with the agricultural era encompassing more than 49 minutes of that hour, with the start of the Industrial Revolution occurring only a quarter of a second ago, and with all the recent changes alluded to above Dennis W . Engels is an associate professor of counselor education and James J . Muro is an acting vice president

First-Semester Experiences of Counselor Education Doctoral Students

“…As Lanning has noted, "We will always be driven by the master's level education we provide, but that can only continue if we prepare quality doctoral level graduates" (p. 168). This is necessary because the doctoral students who graduate from such programs with counselor education doctoral degrees will continue to advance the counseling profession on both the master's and the doctoral level (Engels & Muro, 1986).…”

The Use of a Mock Trial as an Instructional Method in Counselor Preparation

“…psychology. and other social sciences (Engels & Muro, 1986), the literature in these related disciplines can offer some evidence of instructional methods to assist with the design and implementation of new teaching methods for counselors. Phillips (1983) suggested that law-related training is already becoming legitimized as a part of graduate training in the field of psychology.…”