Recommendations for Improvement in Counselor Education

Roses, Ducks, and Doctoral Degrees in Counselor Education

“…This proposal ignores and potentially alienates those who will receive doctorates in (a) School Counseling and (b) Counselor Education. Both groups have readily achieved appropriate employment historically, and clearly there is increasing, dire need for the latter (Hosie, 1990;Maples, 1989). We propose that the title counselor education is appropriate for academic departments, but that as many as four (or possibly five) separate doctoral degrees be offered within those departments: (a) School Counseling, (b) Student Affairs Practice, (c) Counselor Education, (d) Community Agency (Mental Health) Counseling, and possibly (given current trends in the profession) (e) Marriage and Family Counseling.…”

Some Final Comments

“…I worry, especially, that support for knowledge-generation as a valued counselor activity is being lost. Hosie (1990) spoke to a related aspect of this same phenomenon when he commented that:…”

Journal of Counselor Preparation and Supervision Volume 1, Number 2

“…This study drew on the works of Meacham (2002), Hosie (1990), Austin (2002a;2002b) and Lanning (1990). Many of the items on the survey used in this research project, the Preparation for Teaching Survey (PFTS), were derived from the work of these authors.…”

“…To address this expectation, Hosie (1990) and Lanning (1990) proposed the educator-practitioner model for counselor education doctoral programs. Hosie and Lanning agreed that doctoral programs are preparing students who have earned master"s degrees in counseling with additional counseling courses, making them more competent practitioners, but giving them little training in how to teach.…”