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Equalizing Opportunity: Training Indigenous Personnel as Mental Health Counselors
Author(s) -
QUATRANO LOUIS A.,
SILVERMAN HAROLD,
BERGLAND BRUCE,
HALL PERRY
Publication year - 1975
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.1556-6978.1975.tb00992.x
Subject(s) - mental health , disadvantaged , psychology , indigenous , medical education , graduate students , counselor education , training (meteorology) , counseling psychology , applied psychology , higher education , pedagogy , medicine , psychiatry , meteorology , political science , law , biology , ecology , physics
Traditional counseling and clinical programs have been reluctant to train lay counselors. The innovative program described in this article was designed to assist disadvantaged adults in obtaining credentials to qualify for a professional position. Unlike traditional students, TIP (Training Indigenous Persons) students were admitted to graduate level courses in mental health counseling on criteria other than their past academic record. Results supported the recent focus on variables related to candidates' success as counselors, rather than on their previous academic performances.