dc.contributor.author	Smith, Juliann	en
dc.contributor.committeechair	Bodenhorn, Nancy E.	en
dc.contributor.committeemember	Hutchins, David E.	en
dc.contributor.committeemember	Forrest, Alan W.	en
dc.contributor.committeemember	Allen, Katherine R.	en
dc.contributor.committeemember	Getz, Hilda M.	en
dc.contributor.department	Counselor Education	en
dc.date.accessioned	2014-03-14T20:11:22Z	en
dc.date.adate	2004-05-06	en
dc.date.available	2014-03-14T20:11:22Z	en
dc.date.issued	2004-04-09	en
dc.date.rdate	2004-05-06	en
dc.date.sdate	2004-05-01	en
dc.description.abstract	The purpose of this study consisted of three main components: 1) to identify effective counselor characteristics in the literature; 2) to describe existing admission requirements of counseling programs; and, if a need was determined, 3) to develop a framework for a standard set of admission requirements, balanced between cognitive-behavioral characteristics and personal-emotional characteristics, to more thoroughly assess prospective master’s level counseling students. This study discusses the typical admission requirements of master's level CACREP (The Council for Accreditation of Counseling and Related Educational Programs) counseling programs and what the research indicates are characteristics of effective counselors. A literature review of effective counselor characteristics and graduate admission requirements was conducted, CACREP guidelines were examined, and admission requirements and procedures for all 129 CACREP counselor education programs were analyzed. The findings from the literature review were then compared with the data collected and analyzed from existing master’s level CACREP counseling programs to determine gaps between the literature-identified characteristics of effective counselors and current admission criteria of CACREP programs. Follow-up telephone interviews with a faculty of leadership stature from a sample of 20 CACREP counseling programs were conducted. After determining a need, information collected was used to develop a framework for a standard set of admission requirements. Results indicated that currently, a) there is no framework for a standard set of admission requirements for assessing prospective students for master’s level counseling programs that identify personal-emotional characteristics, b) there are gaps between what the literature identifies as effective counselor characteristics and what is typically assessed during admission, c) an agreement exists that the counseling profession must do a better job of gate-keeping, and d) that a framework of admission requirements is needed by counselor educators to assist in a more thorough screening and examination of personal characteristics of prospective students. Finally, e) this research established a foundation for this framework of a standard set of admission requirements that could be used by faculty to more exhaustively assess prospective master’ s level counseling students.	en
dc.description.degree	Ph. D.	en
dc.identifier.other	etd-05012004-220548	en
dc.identifier.sourceurl	http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-05012004-220548/	en
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10919/27473	en
dc.publisher	Virginia Tech	en
dc.relation.haspart	15APPENDIXE_Question8AFAR.pdf	en
dc.relation.haspart	01TitlePage.pdf	en
dc.relation.haspart	02Abstract.pdf	en
dc.relation.haspart	03Acknowledgments.pdf	en
dc.relation.haspart	16APPENDIXF_Question8PFAR.pdf	en
dc.relation.haspart	17VITAE.pdf	en
dc.relation.haspart	11APPENDIXA_ChartedECCs_Refs.pdf	en
dc.relation.haspart	10References.pdf	en
dc.relation.haspart	13APPENDIXC_ParticipantInformedConsent.pdf	en
dc.relation.haspart	07ChapterThree.pdf	en
dc.relation.haspart	08ChapterFour.pdf	en
dc.relation.haspart	09ChapterFive.pdf	en
dc.relation.haspart	05ChapterOne.pdf	en
dc.relation.haspart	04TableofContents.pdf	en
dc.relation.haspart	12APPENDIXB_FollowupProtocol.pdf	en
dc.relation.haspart	06ChapterTwo.pdf	en
dc.relation.haspart	14APPENDIXD_GrpdResponsesofProgs.pdf	en
dc.rights	In Copyright	en
dc.rights.uri	http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/	en
dc.subject	Effective Counselor Characteristics	en
dc.subject	Admission Requirements	en
dc.subject	Personal Emotional	en
dc.subject	Assessing	en
dc.subject	Graduate Students	en
dc.title	Assessing Prospective Students for Master's Level CACREP Counseling Programs: Evaluation of Personal-Emotional Characteristics	en
dc.type	Dissertation	en
thesis.degree.discipline	Counselor Education	en
thesis.degree.grantor	Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University	en
thesis.degree.level	doctoral	en
thesis.degree.name	Ph. D.	en

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