COUN 6100 orientation to the counseling
profession chapter 2 questions with correct
answers
Why are professional counseling organizations so important? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Without
professional counseling organizations, professional counselors wouldn't...
1. be licensed in any state
2. expectations for ethical practice wouldn't exist and the public wouldn't be protected because
practitioners wouldn't be held accountable to various codes of ethics or legal statutes
3. Third party reimbursement from health insurance companies wouldnt be possible for
counselors
4. The US department of veterans affairs would still exclude rehabilitation and mental health
counselors from providing services to veterans
5. Professional school counselors would continue to be called guidance counselors and have
many administrative tasks
6. Graduate counseling programs, if they existed, would have less than 30 credit hours, require
100 or less field experience hours, and be viewed by other mental health professions as having
far less than a professional level of training
Why is it important for counselors, counselor educators, and counseling students to be active
members of counseling associations? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-To advance the profession,
demonstrate professionalism, maintain counseling skills, and partake in the benefits the
organizations offer
American counseling association - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-ACA. worlds largest association for
counselors. The ACA speaks to and for professional counselors across all settings and specialties.
The ACA gives members the opportunity to stay in touch with issues across the entire
counseling spectrum, so members can benefit from ideas and approaches outside their areas of
specialty.
, When was the ACA founded, and what was it called? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-ACA was founded
in 1952, and it was called American Personnel and Guidance Association (APGA). The title
reflected the 4 organizations that came together to from the ACA
4 organizations that came together to form the ACA - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-the national
vocational guidance association, the national association of guidance and counselor trainers,
the student personnel association for teacher education, and the american college personnel
association.
The roots of counseling are in... - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-education and career development
When did APGA change its name? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-1983. APGA changed its name to the
American Association for Counseling and Development (AACD). The name change signified the
emergence of a professional identity that could be distinguished from other mental health
professions, such as psychology and social work. For the first time, counseling was in the
professional organizations title. The word development was also added to the title. The
organizations initial focus on career development blossomed into something no other helping
profession did: human development across the human life span that focuses on positive growth
rather than pathology.
When did AACD change its name? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-in 1992, they changed their name
again. They dropped the word development from their title. This is when they began going by
the american counseling association ACA. They deleted the word development to unite and
reflect the common link between association members
ACA mission statement - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-the mission of the ACA is to enhance the
quality of life in society by promoting the development of professional counselors, advancing
the counseling profession, and using the profession and practice of counseling to promote
respect for human dignity and diversity
What 2 publications does the ACA issue? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Counseling Today and the
Journal of Counseling & Development
profession chapter 2 questions with correct
answers
Why are professional counseling organizations so important? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Without
professional counseling organizations, professional counselors wouldn't...
1. be licensed in any state
2. expectations for ethical practice wouldn't exist and the public wouldn't be protected because
practitioners wouldn't be held accountable to various codes of ethics or legal statutes
3. Third party reimbursement from health insurance companies wouldnt be possible for
counselors
4. The US department of veterans affairs would still exclude rehabilitation and mental health
counselors from providing services to veterans
5. Professional school counselors would continue to be called guidance counselors and have
many administrative tasks
6. Graduate counseling programs, if they existed, would have less than 30 credit hours, require
100 or less field experience hours, and be viewed by other mental health professions as having
far less than a professional level of training
Why is it important for counselors, counselor educators, and counseling students to be active
members of counseling associations? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-To advance the profession,
demonstrate professionalism, maintain counseling skills, and partake in the benefits the
organizations offer
American counseling association - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-ACA. worlds largest association for
counselors. The ACA speaks to and for professional counselors across all settings and specialties.
The ACA gives members the opportunity to stay in touch with issues across the entire
counseling spectrum, so members can benefit from ideas and approaches outside their areas of
specialty.
, When was the ACA founded, and what was it called? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-ACA was founded
in 1952, and it was called American Personnel and Guidance Association (APGA). The title
reflected the 4 organizations that came together to from the ACA
4 organizations that came together to form the ACA - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-the national
vocational guidance association, the national association of guidance and counselor trainers,
the student personnel association for teacher education, and the american college personnel
association.
The roots of counseling are in... - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-education and career development
When did APGA change its name? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-1983. APGA changed its name to the
American Association for Counseling and Development (AACD). The name change signified the
emergence of a professional identity that could be distinguished from other mental health
professions, such as psychology and social work. For the first time, counseling was in the
professional organizations title. The word development was also added to the title. The
organizations initial focus on career development blossomed into something no other helping
profession did: human development across the human life span that focuses on positive growth
rather than pathology.
When did AACD change its name? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-in 1992, they changed their name
again. They dropped the word development from their title. This is when they began going by
the american counseling association ACA. They deleted the word development to unite and
reflect the common link between association members
ACA mission statement - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-the mission of the ACA is to enhance the
quality of life in society by promoting the development of professional counselors, advancing
the counseling profession, and using the profession and practice of counseling to promote
respect for human dignity and diversity
What 2 publications does the ACA issue? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Counseling Today and the
Journal of Counseling & Development
