On Teaching Counseling: Getting Beyond Informational Counseling

Purpose The purpose of this article was to examine the current state of counseling education and to present examples of strategies for teaching counseling based on the author's 40 years of university teaching. Conclusion Current research suggests that students and clinicians are not getting sufficient training in personal adjustment counseling. A recent unpublished survey suggests that only a few graduate programs require a counseling course for speech-language pathology students. Additional research suggests that, although audiology students do have access to counseling coursework, these courses focus primarily on informational/educational counseling strategies and not on teaching personal adjustment counseling strategies. The American Speech-Language-Hearing Association should review current standards for including counseling training in the curriculum, and graduate programs should review how they are teaching counseling and determine if their processes are effective.