Professional Counseling Orientation and Ethical Practice (2/2)

Question 1

1879

Answer 1

First psychological labratory established by Wilhelm Wundt

Question 2

1890

Answer 2

Sigmund Freud used psychoanalysis in treating mental illness

Question 3

1898

Answer 3

Jesse Davis began working as a counselor in a Detroit high school (he was pioneer of vocational guidance)

Question 4

1908

Answer 4

Clifford Beers exposed conditions in mental health institutions by writing A Mind That Found Itself

Question 5

1908

Answer 5

Frank parsons directed Vocation Bureau in Boston

Question 6

1909

Answer 6

Parson’s book (Choosing a Vocation), was published; established the trait-factor guidance approach

Question 7

1913

Answer 7

National Vocational Guidance Association founded - first professional counseling association

Question 8

1917

Answer 8

Smith-Hughes Act grants federal funds for vocational education and guidance

Question 9

1927

Answer 9

Strong-Vocational Interest Blank published

Question 10

1939

Answer 10

E.G. Williamson published How to Counsel Students, which modified Parson’s trait-factor approach

Question 11

1942

Answer 11

**Carl Rogers published Counseling and Psychotherapy **

Question 12

1945+

Answer 12

during post WWII years, counseling services to veterans in VA were greatly expanded

Question 13

1951

Answer 13

American Personnel and Guidance Association was founded

Question 14

1954

Answer 14

The Office of Vocational Rehabilitation was created

Question 15

1958

Answer 15

The National Defense Education Act was passed which provided money for training school counselors

Question 16

1960s

Answer 16

Several new theoretical counseling approaches were developed like behavioral, reality, gestalt, rational emotive

Question 17

1962

Answer 17

Gilbert Wrenn published The Counselor in a Changing World emphasizing counseling as a profession focused on developmental needs

Question 18

1976

Answer 18

State of Virginia passed the first general practice counselor licensure law

Question 19

1981

Answer 19

CACREP was established

Question 20

1980s

Answer 20

Counseling credentialing (licensure and certification) mushroomed

Question 21

1983

Answer 21

APGA changed its name to American Association for Counseling and Development (AACD); became ACA in 1992

Question 22

1990s

Answer 22

Counseling expands services and specialty areas increase

Question 23

1990s and onward

Answer 23

more federal legislation recognizes counseling as a distinct profession
California passed counselor licensure legislation in 2010. All 50 states, DC, Puerto Rico, Guam have licensure

Question 24

2020 and onward

Answer 24

there are more than 65,000 nationally certified counselors and well over 120,000 licensed professional counselors
Continuing issues are professional identity, threats to state counselor licensure laws, licensure portability, the role of CACREP in setting standards