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Internationalizing Counseling Psychology: Challenges, Opportunities, and Strategic Planning

Join professionals and students for a workshop discussing the global history of counseling psychology and the opportunities for its expansion worldwide. Explore challenges like cultural assumptions and language barriers, and discover opportunities in working with international populations. Develop a strategic plan to enhance counseling psychologists' effectiveness across diverse cultures. Emphasizing realistic objectives and actions, this workshop aims to boost Division 17's involvement in the international arena and APA's global agenda.

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Internationalizing Counseling Psychology: Challenges, Opportunities, and Strategic Planning

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  1. Internationalizing Counseling Psychology: Challenges, Opportunities, and Strategic Planning

  2. This workshop furthers the efforts of professionals and students engaged in a discussion about the history of counseling psychology worldwide and the potential for expanding the profession’s role worldwide. Through structured and experiential activities participants will assess the strengths and weaknesses of the research, practice, and training paradigms employed inside the United States (U.S.) for use with non-U.S. populations. Participants will also discuss challenges (e.g., honoring indigenous models of counseling and research; generalizing U.S. models; language barriers; cultural assumptions; collaboration; relevance of training) and opportunities (e.g., experiencing a new culture; establishing professional relationships; investigating cross-cultural validity) of working in an international arena and with international populations. Based on these discussions, participants will begin developing a strategic plan to assist counseling psychologists to effectively and appropriately function in various cultures and nations worldwide. Emphasis will be on identifying realistic and visionary objectives and actions linked with research, practice, theory, training, policy, and collaboration. Further, participants will conceptualize a plan to enhance Division 17’s involvement in the international arena and Division 17’s contribution to APA’s international agenda. Additional outcomes include identifying individuals interested in publishing a major contribution in The Counseling Psychologist on

  3. Contacts for Next Steps • Lawrence Gerstein, Ph.D, Ball State University, lgerstein@bsu.edu

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