Counseling Psychology

Question 1

What are the similarities to clinical psychology?

Answer 1

Advanced degree (Ph.D.): Boulder Model
Scientists/practitioners
Licensure
APA ethics code
Emphasize treatment based on research

Question 2

What are the other characteristics of counseling psychology?

Answer 2

Housed either in the department of education or psychology

Training is in psychology no matter what program the counseling program is located

Work with adult populations

Question 3

Work Setting

Answer 3

College counseling centers

Community mental health centers

VA hospitals and health care facilities Academic department
Applied research organizations

Question 4

Some Demographics

Answer 4

Median salary $67K per year

• Projected job growth 7% - 13%
• 32% primarily teaching
• 23% doing administrative work
• 38% counselor/psychotherapist

Question 5

Tenants of counseling psychology

Answer 5

1. Wellness/strength based model
2. Multicultural competence
3. Vocational psychology
4. Methodological diversity

Question 6

Roots of counseling psychology

Answer 6

Frank Parson (1900s) considered to be the father of counseling psychology

Reform in psychiatric hospitals also led to founding of counseling psychology

Division 17 founded in 1945

Question 7

Typical client characteristics

Answer 7

Adult populations

Typically college aged or community members

Historically has emphasized problems of adjustment and normal development

Increasingly, there is a wide variety of client problems and concerns dealt with counseling psychologists

Question 8

Wellness Model

Answer 8

Strength Based Approach: Identification and development of psychological and social recourses, and on helping individual make use of these recourses

In contrast to the medical model
Also focused on prevention
Tends to align more with humanistic and positive psychology concepts

Question 9

Multicultural Competence

Answer 9

Counseling psychologists noticed that there was limited in the role that culture plays in therapy

1970’s: American Counseling Association approves multicultural competence guideline

2002: APA approves multicultural competence guidelines

Question 10

Social Justice

Answer 10

A principle the emphasizes equality for all members of society interns of safety, recourses, and availability of opportunities

Opposes all forms of oppression and discrimination and provides opportunity to those who have been disempowered

Often tied with principles of feminist and multicultural psychology and counseling

Question 11

Vocational Psychology

Answer 11

The study of work and career related concerns

Unique to counseling psychology

Assessment plays a significant role in vocational psychology

Can measure vocational interests, skills, values, work styles, etc..

Question 12

Career Counseling

Answer 12

Different form “Career Guidance”

Career counseling uses many of the same basic counseling skills. However the focus is on career issues.

Many careers based concerns are emotionally charged and important to the client.

Work transitions come with similar changes as other life transitions (marriage, parenthood, etc..).

Question 13

Methodological Diversity

Answer 13

Counseling psychology is characterized by a variety of methodologies

A variety of quantitive and qulaitive methods are used in research

Quantitive research based on post-positivist view of science

Emphasizes subjective experience

Question 14

Counseling outcome research

Answer 14

Carl Rogers was one of the first psychologists to research treatment outcomes.

Today counseling psychology is one of the largest area of psychotherapy research

Symptom reduction, client-counselor, cultural variables, theoretical orientation, client satisfaction, etc..

CCAPS ( Counseling Center Assessment of Psychological Symptoms)