The Perceptions of Personal Counseling Among Cacrep Counseling Graduate Students
Document Type
Dissertation
Degree Name
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D)
Department
Counseling
Date of Award
Spring 2022
Abstract
Personal counseling is often utilized as an essential component of counselor education programs. Recent research literature suggests substantial benefits for the use of personal counseling in the formation of future counselors; other studies have reported inconclusive results on the influence of personal treatment on the preparation of future clinicians with no relationship being found between personal counseling and treatment outcome. Although ACA suggest guidelines to employ personal counseling as a corrective and remedial procedure for the continual development of counselors in training, CACREP educational program does not mandate schools under their accreditation judication to require personal counseling as part of the counseling program curriculum of future counselors. Therefore, counseling programs may graduate counselor students without any experience with their own personal counseling. The purposes of this qualitative study are to (a) explore the lived experiences of students’ perceptions of personal counseling in a CACREP accredited school, and (b) examine students’ perceptions of personal counseling in their personal and professional development.
Advisor
Lavelle Hendricks
Subject Categories
Counseling | Social and Behavioral Sciences
Recommended Citation
Munoz, Leeiner, "The Perceptions of Personal Counseling Among Cacrep Counseling Graduate Students" (2022). Electronic Theses & Dissertations. 743.
https://digitalcommons.tamuc.edu/etd/743
