Counseling Psychology Faculty’s Contributions to the Internationalization of Counseling
Abstract
In this study, we identified counseling psychology faculty members’ international publications, presentations, activities, and education abroad experiences through investigating 183 curricula vitae of faculty members in the United States. The results demonstrated that compared to four decades ago, the emphasis on international issues has increased. However, there is still a considerable number of counseling psychology faculty members who have not incorporated international issues into their professional activities. Path analysis results indicated that international presentations and activities moderately predicted internationally relevant publications. Based on these results, we proposed several ways to facilitate the internationalization of counseling psychology in the future, and discussed how internationalization could bring positive changes to the counseling psychology field.
Keywords
Internationalization Counseling psychology Faculty ResearchNotes
Author’s Contribution
All authors contributed to the development of the study and this article.
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Conflict of Interest
The authors declared that they have no conflict on interest.
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