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A Two‐Year Program of Counselor Education
Author(s) -
Malcolm David Donald
Publication year - 1971
Publication title -
counselor education and supervision
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.608
H-Index - 40
eISSN - 1556-6978
pISSN - 0011-0035
DOI - 10.1002/j.1556-6978.1971.tb01438.x
Subject(s) - counselor education , psychology , medical education , pedagogy , higher education , medicine , political science , law
If school counseling is to be a career commitment, not a temporary or occasional assignment, the school counselor must possess some special expertise that enables him to make a unique contribution to the school. It follows that counselor educators should identify this special expertise as precisely as possible and then offer an instructional program designed to develop it. Since such special expertise is not likely to be acquired without extensive and intensive training, the instructional program will ordinarily require a minimum of two years of full‐time study. This position paper elaborates the rationale for the above beliefs and attempts to suggest directions in which they may lead.