Professional Counseling

Paper Summary:

This paper discusses how, in 1989, a great movement swept the counseling profession, one calling for the creation of supervision standards for professional counseling, and how the primary goals of such measures were to protect the best interests of the public and the clientele served by the counseling communities. The paper then examines how many historical events necessitated this movement, the impact of those standards and the need to constantly review and update them.

Outline:
The Motivation Behind Supervision Standards for Professional Counseling
Impact of Standards on Professional Counseling
Need to Update, Revise or Add to Existing Standards

From the Paper:

"Currently, there is a great need to update and revise the existing standards, created almost 20 years ago (Cobia & Pipes, 2002). To this date, roughly 20 years following the creation of the standards in 1989, many new trends and theories have predominated in the field of professional counseling. It is now important to build on the existing standards to meet the needs of a changing clientele, one that faces problems very different from those faced during the previous 20 years. In addition to this, many recent researchers not multiple studies suggest there are "barriers" that prevent professionals from utilizing standards in the most efficient way possible, in part because many professional counselors do not agree on the definitions related to supervision and training, and also because many studies of the past leading to the original set of standards did not correctly identify the validity of the studies nor utilize methods for identifying threats to the methodology of the studies (Goodyear & Bernard, 1998; Schult, 1996; Cobia & Pipes, 2002)."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Cobia, D.C., & Pipes, R.B. (2002). Mandated supervision: An intervention for disciplined professionals. Journal of Counseling and Development, 80(2): 140.
• Goodyear, R.K., & Bernard, J.M. (1998). Clinical supervision: Lessons from the literature. Counselor Education and Supervision, 38(1): 6-23.
• Walzer, R.S., & Miltimore, S. (1993). Mandated supervision: Monitoring, and therapy of disciplined health care professionals. The Journal of Legal Medicine, 14(1):565-96.
• Watkins, C.E. (1995). Psychotherapy supervision in the 1990s: Some observations and reflections. American Journal of Psychotherapy, 49(1): 565-96

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