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Professional Counselor Identity Development: A Qualitative Study of Hispanic Student Interns
Author(s) -
Nelson Kaye W.,
Jackson Shelley A.
Publication year - 2003
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.1556-6978.2003.tb01825.x
Subject(s) - socialization , psychology , counselor education , identity (music) , qualitative research , graduate students , medical education , counseling psychology , professional development , pedagogy , perception , higher education , clinical psychology , social psychology , medicine , sociology , social science , physics , political science , acoustics , law , neuroscience
In this qualitative study, 8 Hispanic counseling student interns who were enrolled in a regional university told the story of their professional identity development. Qualitative analysis of the transcripts of audiotaped semistructured interviews revealed 7 general themes: (a) knowledge, (b) personal growth, (c) experience, (d) relationships, (e) accomplishment, (f) costs, and (g) perceptions of the counseling profession. Results may provide counselor educators with direction in facilitating the socialization of Hispanic graduate counseling students into the counseling profession.