The anticipated future of counselling psychology in the United States: A Delphi poll

Neimeyer, Greg J.; Diamond, Amy K

doi:10.1080/09515070125262

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“…These results carry potential challenges as well as opportunities for the field of professional psychology and the mechanisms that are designed to support ongoing professional competence within it. On the one hand, the diminishing durability of knowledge may pose significant challenges in relation to generating and supporting the kinds of continued training and education needed to enable the field to keep pace with its rapidly developing and increasingly specialized knowledge base (Neimeyer, Taylor, Wear, & Linder-Crow, 2012). On the other hand, however, an awareness of the differential half-lives of knowledge across various areas of specialization may provide a kind of road map in relation to the areas of greatest need, allowing the field to use this information to make decisions about whether to concentrate its education and training resources (at the doctoral, postdoctoral, and continuing education levels) in the selected areas associated with the greatest knowledge advances or to redouble its attention to more durable domains of knowledge with slower rates of new knowledge development.…”

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“…Recent evidence supports Wise et al's (2010) observation. In a Delphi Poll of professional psychologists, which involved the iterative, confidential polling of an identified panel of designated experts, members of the panel predicted a 28% decrease in the overall half-life of knowledge within professional psychology over the course of the next 10 years (Neimeyer, Taylor, Wear, & Linder-Crow, 2012), meaning that newly minted doctoral graduates might be expected to experience significant, perhaps disconcerting, levels of knowledge obsolescence within a matter of only 6 or 7 years after their graduation.…”

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The diminishing durability of knowledge in professional psychology: A second look at specializations.

Neimeyer

Taylor

Rozensky

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Professional Psychology: Research and Practice

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Using a Delphi polling methodology and a small sample of identified experts in the field, recent research has noted the widely variable, and rapidly diminishing, half-life of knowledge across a range of specialties within professional psychology (Neimeyer, Taylor, & Rozensky, 2012). The current article provides methodological triangulation in relation to this previous work by surveying a large number (N ϭ 402) of board-certified psychologists across the full range of specialties recognized by the American Psychological Association and the American Board of Professional Psychology (ABPP). Results again supported a wide range of perceived half-lives across the various specialties and a consistent trend toward the diminishing durability of knowledge in these fields over time. Current perceived half-lives varied from a high of 18.37 years (in the area of Psychoanalysis) to a low of 7.58 years (in the area of Clinical Health Psychology), with the overall durability of knowledge across all areas being 8.68 years. The future half-lives of knowledge were expected to shrink in every area of specialization to as little as 5.61 years (in Clinical Health Psychology) within a decade from now. The implications of these findings are discussed in relation to the field's continuing commitment to the maintenance and demonstration of professional competence and its ongoing movement toward increased specialization.

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The diminishing durability of knowledge in professional psychology: A second look at specializations.

Neimeyer

Taylor

Rozensky

et al. 2014

Professional Psychology: Research and Practice

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“…In addition to the increasing attention researchers are investing in enhancing human strengths such as forgiveness, theorists also increasingly advocate taking a developmental approach when working with clients (e.g., Ivey & Ivey, 1998). Indeed, attention to life‐span development has been a long‐standing core feature within specialties such as counseling psychology (Neimeyer & Diamond, 2001). Despite the recognized importance of developmental perspectives in counseling and the emerging research on the importance of forgiveness, little research has been done regarding the relationship between forgiveness and psychosocial development.…”

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“…Although the ability to forgive has been cited as a prosocial interpersonal process (Karremans, Van Lange, & Holland, 2005), with numerous emotional and health‐related benefits (Karremans et al, 2003; Lawler et al, 2005), and although counselors advocate using developmental perspectives in their work (Ivey & Ivey, 1998; Neimeyer & Diamond, 2001), little research has been conducted on the relationships among forgiveness, counseling, and human development. In the only study identified to date on this topic, Romig and Veenstra (1998) found a significant relationship between forgiveness and the successful resolution of Erikson's (1963) psychosocial crises.…”

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The Relationship Between Episodic and Dispositional Forgiveness, Psychosocial Development, and Counseling

Poston

Hanson²,

Schwiebert

2012

Counseling and Values

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The relationship between episodic and dispositional forgiveness and the resolution of Erikson's (1963) psychosocial crises were explored in this study. Participants (N = 66) completed the Enright Forgiveness Inventory (Enright & Rique, 2004), Tendency to Forgive Scale (Brown, 2003), and Measures of Psychosocial Development (Hawley, 1988). Results are consistent with forgiveness and Eriksonian theories. Episodic forgiveness and dispositional forgiveness accounted for 8% and 10%, respectively, of the variance in global resolution of psychosocial crises. The most pronounced relationship was between both forgiveness types and Erikson's crises related to basic trust and ego integrity. Implications for counseling research, practice, and training are discussed.

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“…These views are then summarised by the researcher and returned to the same experts for further comments and additional views; this process continues until a consensus about the future has been reached. This latter method is extremely popular and has been widely used across a range of disciplines for the forecasting of future trends (see, for example, Fleming and Monda-Amaya, 2001;Neimeyer and Diamond, 2001;Norcross et al, 2002;Smith, 1997;Toward and Ostwald, 2002).…”

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Forecasting future competency requirements: a three‐phase methodology

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Purpose -The purpose of this paper is to introduce an integrated three-phase methodology for forecasting future competency requirements more effectively than existing methods. Design/methodology/approach -The methodology is demonstrated with reference to empirical research conducted by the authors. The methodology consists of three phases: phase 1 -preliminary interviews, phase 2 -questionnaire, and phase 3 -critical incident technique interviews. Outputs from phases 1 and 2 are used to generate a framework through which to elicit future competency requirements during phase 3. Findings -The empirical findings, although included, are incidental to the current paper; they serve solely to illustrate the methodology. As such, the development and demonstration of this methodology are the main "findings" of the paper. Research limitations/implications -Methodologies for forecasting future competency requirements should adopt structured integrated approaches to improve predictive accuracy. Practical implications -The methodology is described in sufficient detail so as to enable its practical application by HR professionals and academic researchers alike. Both groups will find this methodology extremely useful. Originality/value -The paper seeks to improve upon existing methods for forecasting future competency requirements. By addressing the limitations of existing methods, and also by merging previously independent approaches, it provides an innovative integrated methodology of significant value.

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The anticipated future of counselling psychology in the United States: A Delphi poll

Cited by 46 publications

References 68 publications

The diminishing durability of knowledge in professional psychology: A second look at specializations.

The diminishing durability of knowledge in professional psychology: A second look at specializations.

The Relationship Between Episodic and Dispositional Forgiveness, Psychosocial Development, and Counseling

Forecasting future competency requirements: a three‐phase methodology

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