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Teaching and Supervision in Counseling

Author ORCID Identifier

Dr. Brett Gleason - https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8726-3780

Dr. Madeline Clark - https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5130-5160

Dr. Lena Salpietro - https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9234-0541

Dr. Rachel Jacoby - https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7226-2315

Author Biographies

Brett Gleason, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Their research interests include wellness, self-care, and burnout prevention within counselor education.

Madeline Clark (she/they), PhD, LPC, CCMHC, NCC, ACS is an Associate Professor at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Dr. Clark centers her research interests around poverty and social class issues in counseling.

Lena Salpietro, Ph.D., LPCC(OH), NCC is an Assistant Professor at Kent State University. Their research interests include best practices in/standardization of gatekeeping and remediation in Counselor Education, LGBTGEQIAP+ health, wellness, and counseling experiences, and the experiences of counselors who have lost a client to suicide.

Rachel Jacoby, Ph.D., LPCC-S(OH), NCC, ACS, CFLE, is an Assistant Professor at Palo Alto University. Their research interests include exploring clinical care working with fostered youth, supervision, and trauma-focused care

DOI

https:doi.org/10.7290/tsc06omhy

Abstract

Wellness and diversity are cornerstones of professional counseling; however, both have received little attention in terms of counselor educators and their students. The results of a quantitative study (N = 301) explored the relationship between wellness and experiences of discrimination for counselor educators, doctoral students, and master’s counseling students. Researchers utilized the Five Factor Wellness Inventory, Everyday Discrimination Scale, and a demographic questionnaire to conduct both a hierarchical linear regression and a factorial ANOVA to answer research questions. Results of the study indicated that both perceived discrimination and identity factors significantly impact wellness levels for individuals within counselor education. Implications for the field such as modeling, mindfulness, and individualized wellness for both students and counselor educators are discussed.

Public Significance Statement

Wellness and diversity have long been a part of the field of counseling ideologically. Multicultural issues have had a strong stake in the research literature of the field, but only recently has there been an increase in topics around wellness in counselor education. This study aims to explore how the two are related in terms of discrimination experienced within the field. Results show that perceived discrimination has a significant relationship with wellness.

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