1900s-1940s
Location of the first university-level course in vocational guidance.
What is Harvard University?
Became the first state to adopt a professional licensure law for counselors in 1976
What is Virginia?
The accrediation organization created in 1981 that standardized counselor education programs
What is the Council for Accreditation of Counseling and Related Educational Programs (CACREP)?
The year the counseling profession formally celebrated its 50th anniversary as a profession under the American Counseling Association.
What is 2002?
The father of Person Centered Therapy
Who is Carl Rogers?
The first national professional organization in the counseling field
What is The National Vocational Guidance Association?
In 1958 this ACT massively funded testing and guidance in public schools.
What I the National Defense Education Act (NDEA)?
The American Association for Counseling Development (called the American Personnel and Guidance Association until 1983) changed its name to this in 1992.
What is the American Counseling Association?
The 50th state to license professional counselors
What is California?
Widely considered the "father of counseling" due to his pioneering work in vocational guidance, establishing the first vocational guidance bureau in Boston in 1908
Who is Frank Parsons?
He integrated guidance into public‑school curricula
Who is Jesse B Davis?
This landmark act authorized the establishment of a nationwide system of community mental health centers meant to serve the needs of mentally ill Americans who were newly deinstitutionalized.
What is the 1963 Community Mental Health Centers Act?
This international academic and professional honor society was created in the 1980s.
What is Chi Sigma Iota?
This enhances mobility and telehealth continuity and has potential to improve rural and crisis access although state adoption varies
What is the Counseling Compact?
In 1908 he wrote "A Mind That Found Itself" and started a mental hygiene movement that focussed on client rights and advocacy.
Who is Clifford Beers?
The first theory of counseling developed by E.G. Williamson that emphaized a directive, counselor-centered approach, also known as Minnesota Point of View
What is trait-factor counseling?
He published The Counselor in a Changing World to address cultural encapsulation
Who is CG Wren?
Her (1982) seminal study on the
development of moral values in females,
helped introduce feminist theory into the
counseling arena
Who is Carol Gilligan?
The Counseling profession celebrated its 50th anniversary this year
What is 2002?
NBCC
What is the National Board for Certified Counselors?
He advocated for vocational
decision-making to be included in education
process
Who is John Brewer?
Weldon v. Virginia State Board of
Psychologists Examiners
When was Counseling acknowledged as a
profession distinct from psychology
In 1983 the American Personnel and Guidance Association (APGA) changed its name to this (not the ACA).
What is the American Association
for Counseling and Development?
Professional Counseling Orientation and
Ethical Practice / Social and Cultural Diversity / Human Growth and Development / Career Development / Counseling and Helping Relationships / Group Counseling and Group Work / Assessment and Testing / Research and Program Evaluation
What are the Eight CACREP Competency Areas?
The number of post graduate supervised hours needed in order to apply for licensure.
What is 3000?