Why Are Counseling Psychology Students SA Ging?

Women with multiply-marginalized identities remain underrepresented in the American Psychological Association and Society of Counseling Psychology leadership. As early entrants into the leadership pipeline, female student leaders can potentially shift that trend; however, we know little about their leadership emergence processes. In this study, we employed collaborative autoethnography to analyze the positional standpoints of four diverse female counseling psychology leaders. We identified themes in their leadership narratives, which began when they were students. The results focused on factors associated with participants' leadership emergence processes, the role of marginalized identities in participants' leadership emergence, and the interplay between counseling psychology values and leadership through the theoretical framework of bridge leadership. We found themes of (a) Leadership Attributes, including future orientation, determination, and connection; as well as (b) Opportunities and Mentorship. Other themes

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Becoming a Bridge: Collaborative Autoethnography of Four Female Counseling Psychology Student Leaders

Hargons

Lantz

Marks

et al. 2017

“…Student Affiliates of Seventeen (SAS) is the national student organization of Division 17 of the American Psychological Association (APA), the Society of Counseling Psychology (SCP). Established in 1977, SAS was created to include students in governance of the division, provide leadership development opportunities, and socialize potential future professional leaders within SCP (Colbert & Schoener, 2018; Glidden et al, 1993). The organization is led by a board of graduate students within an APA-accredited counseling psychology doctoral program that is selected to host SAS on a rotating three-year basis.…”

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Student Affiliates of Seventeen (SAS) 2020 Report: Transitioning to Leadership in a Historic Year

McGillen

Martinez

Eddy

et al. 2020

The University of Missouri–Columbia was selected to host the Student Affiliates of Seventeen (SAS) Executive Board from 2019–2022 and began their term in August 2019, following a successful three-year tenure by Ball State University. The new executive board has anchored its term in four pillars—Growth and Sustainability, Justice and Equity, Excellence and Innovation, and Wellness and Positive Development—which have guided the organization over the past year. This report reviews the purpose of SAS and discusses membership development, programming, advocacy, and the organizational development activities of the organization, including progress on goals to increase and engage membership and foster a more equitable and socially just organization that embraces liberation as a value. Counseling psychology students’ and the organization’s response and adjustment to the COVID-19 pandemic and national reckoning with police brutality and anti-Black racism are also discussed.

“…Leadership positions were developed on the SCP executive board, where two SAS co-chairs serve as voting members, providing student representation within the division. Student engagement and membership in SAS has been associated with future professional membership of Division 17 (Glidden, Zachar, & Jaschik-Herman, 1993). The SAS student executive board is responsible for adhering to the SAS and SCP bylaws, managing finances, and overseeing the SAS network of approximately 850 student members.…”

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2019 Report: Student Affiliates of Seventeen (SAS)

Schoener

Colbert

2019

Ball State University’s tenure as host institution for Student Affiliates of Division Seventeen (SAS) has come to an end as of August 2019. While maintaining the purpose of increasing student membership and involvement in the Society of Counseling Psychology, Ball State’s executive board has pursued unique initiatives aimed at strengthening the organization and providing opportunities to its members. Over the course of our 3-year term, three main themes emerged: 1) Social Justice and Equity, 2) Membership Engagement, and 3) Organizational sustainability. As such, the current report will include a description of these themes and a review of SAS activities and initiatives in the last year. In celebration of the 50th anniversary of The Counseling Psychologist, this report will begin with a brief overview of SAS and its history.