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Counselling training in higher education in the United Kingdom: Challenges and opportunities for research
Author(s) -
Joseph Stephen,
Murphy David,
Holford John
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
counselling and psychotherapy research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.38
H-Index - 32
eISSN - 1746-1405
pISSN - 1473-3145
DOI - 10.1002/capr.12189
Subject(s) - excellence , nature versus nurture , situated , kingdom , mental health , training (meteorology) , pedagogy , medical education , psychology , political science , public relations , sociology , medicine , psychotherapist , paleontology , physics , meteorology , computer science , law , biology , artificial intelligence , anthropology
Many Higher Education Institutes ( HEI s) in the United Kingdom ( UK ) now offer undergraduate and postgraduate courses in counselling. However, counselling is a relatively new and developing profession only beginning to nurture a future generation of research‐active scholars. As such, its development is vulnerable to pressures arising from HEI s preparations for the forthcoming UK Research Excellence Framework ( REF ). We discuss how counselling is best understood as representing two distinct traditions premised on either a pedagogical or a mental illness discourse. This has implications for how counselling research is situated within HEI s, an understanding of which may help counselling education survive the challenges ahead and find new opportunities to develop and grow. Within HEI 's, there is a need to be aware of the different ways of conceptualising the activities of counselling. An opportunity exists to reimagine counselling both as a mental health and as a pedagogical profession.