Teaching and Supervision in Counseling
Author ORCID Identifier
Ian P. Levy (Corresponding Author) https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4798-0224
Natalie Edirmanasinghe https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7934-2350
Kara Ieva https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6190-5071
Sam Steen https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0917-0543
DOI
https://doi.org/10.7290/tsc06kzja
Abstract
This special issue focuses exclusively on the training of future school counselors to adopt a non-dual and non-hierarchical identity as an EducatorCounselor. It is long documented that the school counselors’ straddling the worlds of education and counseling have led to identity and role confusion. Concerns about school counselors’ identity have persisted amidst changes in the counseling profession and resulted in a notable schism among leaders and professional associations. Building on the Levy and Lemberger-Truelove (2021) proposition that school counselors are EducatorCounselors, or school-building educators who consistently engage in educational tasks while being oriented by counseling, articles within this special issue offer the field of counselor education an opportunity to understand how shifts in our professional practice, preparation, supervision, and research dissemination can operationalize a clear and distinct EducatorCounselor identity for school-counselors-in-training.
Public Significance Statement
This special issue addresses the longstanding identity confusion of school counselors by proposing a unified EducatorCounselor identity. It explores how counselor education can prepare future school counselors to seamlessly integrate educational tasks with a counseling orientation, potentially resolving professional divides and clarifying roles within school settings.
Recommended Citation
Levy, Ian; Edirmanasinghe, Natalie A.; Ieva, Kara; and Steen, Sam
(2024)
"The Pursuit of a Combined Educator-Counselor Identity: Gaps and Opportunities in School Counselor Training Scholarship,"
Teaching and Supervision in Counseling: Vol. 6
:
Iss.
2
, Article 1.
https://doi.org/10.7290/tsc06kzja
Available at:
https://trace.tennessee.edu/tsc/vol6/iss2/1