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Counseling Programs' Informed Consent Practices: A Survey of Student Preferences
Author(s) -
PeaseCarter Cheyenne,
Minton Casey A. Barrio
Publication year - 2012
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.1556-6978.2012.00023.x
Subject(s) - accreditation , informed consent , psychology , counselor education , medical education , association (psychology) , clinical psychology , family medicine , higher education , medicine , psychotherapist , alternative medicine , political science , pathology , law
This study examined 115 master's‐level counseling students' preferences for content, timing, and method of programmatic informed consent. Students rated the majority of items as moderately or extremely important to receive, and they indicated a desire for the informed consent to be facilitated through a combination of both oral and written methods throughout their programs of study. Results reinforce and go beyond the Council for Accreditation of Counseling and Related Educational Programs (2009) and American Counseling Association (2005) expectations for informed consent. Implications for counselor education are discussed.