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- Title
A comparative analysis of counselors' right to test over time: Implications for advocacy in the counseling profession.
- Authors
Cade, Rochelle; Lenz, A. Stephen
- Abstract
Counselor's right to utilize assessment, appraisal, and tests, and diagnose has substantive implications for professional counseling, counselor education, the provision of evidence‐based practice, and supporting client development across the life span. We identified documents detailing licensure rules and regulations for counselors' use of these clinical tools within the contiguous United States, Washington, DC, Alaska, Hawaii, and inhabited U.S. territories. Proportion comparisons over time, Fisher's exact test, and related effect sizes were computed to identify changes over time, as well as trends associated with regional professional association. Our results indicated increased representation over time of privileges allowing for the use of assessment, appraisal, and tests, and diagnosis within counselors' scope of practice and educational requirements, but modest representation of normal assessment use and allowable/nonallowable assessments and tests. Furthermore, we identified statistically significant differences in the regional representativeness of diagnostic privileges. Implications for counselor education and individual and association‐level advocacy are discussed.
- Subjects
UNITED States; HAWAII; WASHINGTON (D.C.); ALASKA; NATIONAL competency-based educational tests; COUNSELING; COUNSELORS; PROFESSIONAL licenses; EVIDENCE-based medicine; FISHER exact test; COMPARATIVE studies; PSYCHOSOCIAL factors; DESCRIPTIVE statistics; CONSUMER activism; EMPLOYEE rights; MEDICAL practice
- Publication
Journal of Counseling & Development, 2024, Vol 102, Issue 1, p119
- ISSN
0748-9633
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/jcad.12491