A Culturally Responsive Intervention for Addressing Problematic Behaviors in Counseling Students

The Estrangement of U.S. Colonialism from Counseling Discourses on Social Justice: Examining Intimacy and Care as Strategies to Sustain Democratic Citizenship

In promoting social equality in the name of democratic citizenship, counseling discourses on social justice are largely disconnected from their U.S. colonial heritage. As history is typically erased from theoretical developments and research in counseling generally speaking, this essay mobilizes multiple disciplines in order to establish a conjuncture between the way counseling discourses on social justice address inequality and the way they inadvertently sustain the inequalities they seek to abolish. By grounding into U.S. colonialism as a form of imperial pragmatism in empire building, this essay explicates counseling as another technology of social control for which intimacy and care become categorically encased.

The Conceptualization and Assessment of Professional Dispositions in Rehabilitation Counselor Education

Newly adopted accreditation standards within rehabilitation counselor education require the assessment of knowledge, skills, and a set of characteristics known as professional dispositions (PDs). PDs may be regarded as individual characteristics like values, beliefs, attitudes, or interpersonal ways of being that influence professional behavior. Yet, this remains an abstract construct that eludes simple definition and measurement. The purpose of this article is to review existing literature related to PDs in order to assist rehabilitation counselor educators in understanding (a) the conceptualization and identification of PDs, (b) the assessment of PDs within a program evaluation process, and (c) contextual dynamics that may influence the assessment of PDs. To this end, the article explores existing PD definitions; common factors related to counseling outcomes; and the guiding philosophies, codes, and values for the field of rehabilitation counseling. Additionally, the role of PDs are discussed in relation to accreditation standards, the development of standardized instruments, student assessment, and program evaluation. Finally, the assessment of PDs are considered in relation to multicultural dynamics, students with disabilities, and distance education.