Despite a perceived post-racist era prevalent in various forms of social discourse, racial injustice is still perpetuated throughout the United States. This conceptual article explores the ways white supremacy is still prevalent in counselor education as well as ways to disrupt white supremacy in counselor education.

Multicultural discourse, when focusing on systemic racism/discrimination, has recently come under scrutiny. Despite the long history of multiculturalism in counselling and other helping fields, critics espouse multiculturalism does not work and increases racial problems. This criticism persists despite recent events such as the racial unrest in…

Scholars have advocated for the integration of spirituality into school counseling; however, school counselor education and professional organizations continue to exclude spiritual/religious competencies from school counselor preparation, professional identity, and practice. The authors offer strategies for incorporating religious and spiritual…

A three-round Delphi method surveyed 17 experts, identifying 108 essential neurofeedback competencies for counselors-in-training. This research addresses concerns about the impact of neuro-informed practices on counselor identity and scope of practice, providing a foundation for incorporating neurofeedback training into counselor education.

Citing the ongoing and urgent need within counselor education to confront and disrupt systemic racism within the profession, we present how professional counseling has been both ambivalent to racism and enacted systematically racist policies against Black and other racially marginalized people. We share selected milestones in the profession's…

Few practical guidelines exist for conducting generic qualitative research (GQR) with rigor and intentional purpose. This article offers varied purposes of GQR (practicality and creating change, flexible blending of methods, and innovation) and pragmatic guidance for counselor educators and doctoral students conceptualizing, designing, and…

Using a thematic analysis, we examined the reflections of N = 14 counselors-in-training (CIT) who co-led groups with Afghan refugees. Five themes related to cultural humility emerged from the data. Implications for counselor educators leading community engaged programs that build cultural humility are discussed.

Counsellor Education programmes provide opportunities for students to engage in approaches grounded in theory and research, utilise appropriate interventions, and conceptualise career concerns using both objective and subjective methods. This phenomenological study examined 25 students' perceptions of learning and conducting the Career…

An increased emphasis on the importance of including spirituality and religion in counseling places systemic family therapists in a unique position due to their relational focus. However, research indicates a lack of graduate training to ensure competence in addressing this dimension. This article offers possibilities for integrating spiritual and…

Social justice has become a common goal in school psychology, including in practice guidelines. However, there is a paucity of research reflecting a representative sample of US practitioners providing input on key social justice competency areas and how frequently they employ these competencies. Utilizing a national sample of 145 practitioners,…

The current study investigated the relationship between research self-efficacy, perceived research training environment and research productivity among 174 doctoral students enrolled in counselling programmes in universities across the United States. Results indicated that students' research self-efficacy was positively correlated with their…

This qualitative case study examined a piloted online synchronous school counseling site supervision training program. The findings of the study included two key themes, Community of Learning and Opportunities for Reflection and Application, which revealed aspects of participant engagement and content delivery that enhanced school counseling site…

This research explored the use of adventure therapy in Aotearoa New Zealand, how practitioners have learned their skills, and what they perceive the field needs to support its development. The mixed methods study used interpretive description methodology to analyse focus group and survey data. The field is diverse and includes practitioners from…

Clarifying counselor education's status as a discipline carries implications for pedagogy, researcher identity development, and knowledge production. In this manuscript, these implications are discussed within a historical context and with attention to the successful career transitions for new counselor educators, as well as those pursuing…

Clinical supervisors should be culturally competent working with transgender or gender expansive (TGE) counselors-in-training; however, minimal research exists regarding TGE counselors' experiences in supervision. This interpretative phenomenological analysis study explored the supervision experiences of five TGE counselors-in-training. Findings…