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Adding a Family Counseling Training Component to a Community Agency Counseling Master's Degree
Author(s) -
SHEVERBUSH ROBERT L.,
WARD DONALD E.
Publication year - 1989
Publication title -
journal of counseling and development
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.805
H-Index - 78
eISSN - 1556-6676
pISSN - 0748-9633
DOI - 10.1002/j.1556-6676.1989.tb02625.x
Subject(s) - credentialing , agency (philosophy) , counselor education , specialty , medical education , component (thermodynamics) , psychology , professional degree , professional development , counseling psychology , medicine , family medicine , higher education , applied psychology , sociology , political science , law , thermodynamics , social science , physics
This article presents an example of the planning and implementation of a program to retrain counselor education faculty members and then to add a family counseling specialty component to a master's degree community agency counseling program. Implications for professional development, credentialing, and improving relationships with agencies and the community are discussed.