The women’s inclusive mentoring framework: developing strong female leaders in counselor education

Transformational leadership and the big five personality traits of counselor educators

“…Counseling departments can provide courses and workshops that provide experiential learning opportunities that promote personal development and awareness of impact on self on others. In addition to helping both counselor educators and counselor educators in training gain insight into their personality traits through the use of assessments, programs might consider providing mentorship opportunities for potential leaders (Maccombs & Bhat, 2020). While mentoring often focuses on nontenured faculty, Gibson (2016) maintains that mentoring is beneficial to leadership identity development throughout ones' career.…”

“…Given this relationship, an examination of the personality attributes that differentiate transformational leaders within counselor education is warranted. McKibben et al (2017) have called for intentional leadership training of counselor educators, while others suggest mentorship as an avenue for leadership development (Maccombs & Bhat, 2020). However, leadership in counselor education needs further investigation as the specific attributes of counselor educators who are transformational leaders have yet to be examined.…”

“Listen louder”: Counselor trainee understanding of diversity in diagnosis

“…When counselor educators were called to teach in uncertain times during the COVID‐19 pandemic, they were also challenged to recognize and integrate knowledge learned from the long‐term social unrest that has permeated our society (Storlie et al, 2021). Critical issues remain in counseling and counselor education related to dimensions of identity including but not limited to African Americans (Williams et al., 2021), Asian American and Pacific Islanders (Litam & Chan, 2021), gender (Macombs–Hunter & Bhat, 2020) and gender identity (Chavez‐Korell & Johnson, 2010), culture and ethnicity (Authors, 2021), and ability (Rivas & Hill, 2018). As counselors are called to integrate multiculturalism into all aspects of counseling (ACA, 2014; Ratts, et al., 2015), counselor educators need to take action to ensure that the infusion of diversity in coursework moves beyond cultural sensitivity (ACES, 2016).…”