Balancing Discipleship and Gatekeeping in Counselor Education
Training students to become successful clinicians involves the development and transformation of the whole person, engaging their head in academic knowledge; their heart in awareness, insight, and compassion; and their hands in effective clinical skills and practice. Faith-based graduate programs de...
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| Format: | Print Article |
| Language: | English |
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2020
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Journal of psychology and christianity
Year: 2020, Volume: 39, Issue: 2, Pages: 104-113 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Psychological counseling
/ Church work
/ Trainer
/ Pastoral counseling
/ Evaluation
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| IxTheo Classification: | FB Theological education RG Pastoral care ZD Psychology |
| Summary: | Training students to become successful clinicians involves the development and transformation of the whole person, engaging their head in academic knowledge; their heart in awareness, insight, and compassion; and their hands in effective clinical skills and practice. Faith-based graduate programs desire to disciple students in this journey, seeking to bridge the guidelines and standards of gatekeeping with the depth and formation of discipleship and spiritual transformation. According to Dougherty, Haddock, and Coker (2015), the key to effective gatekeeping is clear, consistent, and proactive communication. It is essential that students understand the standards, but also that students recognize the formative and not punitive role of development and remediation plans (Kress & Protivnak, 2009; Spurgeon, Gibbons, & Cochran, 2012). Gatekeeping provides an opportunity for counselor educators to communicate clearly the standards and expectations of what it means to be an effective counselor to students. Discipleship for spiritual formation acknowledges the need for brokenness and struggle as an essential component for growing into deeper Christlikeness (Tan, 2019). This paper identified the theme of intentional programmatic emphasis on spiritual formation through curriculum and faculty modeling as factors in the process of counselor educators balancing this tension. |
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| ISSN: | 0733-4273 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of psychology and christianity
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