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Trainee Competence in Master's‐Level Counseling Programs: A Comparison of Counselor Educators' and Students' Views
Author(s) -
Gaubatz Michael D.,
Vera Elizabeth M.
Publication year - 2006
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.1556-6978.2006.tb00010.x
Subject(s) - dismissal , psychology , competence (human resources) , counselor education , medical education , perception , pedagogy , higher education , medicine , social psychology , neuroscience , political science , law
Forty‐five counselor educators and 62 master's‐level counseling students were surveyed to compare faculty members' perceptions of trainee competence with students' own views. As anticipated, students reported higher deficiency rates than did their faculty. Combined with the intervention rates reported by corresponding faculty, students' reports suggested that as many as 21% of their peers may be professionally deficient and that the majority of these may progress through their training without remediation. Together with students' anticipated reactions to their own identification for remediation or dismissal, these findings underscore the importance of implementing effective procedures for reviewing the professional fitness of counselors‐in‐training.