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Should Counselor Education Be Measuring What Students Believe?

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There are some words in our CACREP professional standards that deserve much more attention than they receive. Here are five: Those words appear in CACREP’s 2024 definition of professional dispositions: The commitments, characteristics, values, beliefs, and behaviors that influence the counselor’s professional growth and interactions with clients, faculty, supervisors, and peers, including working in a

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When Law, Ethics, and Therapy Collide: A Response to the Supreme Court’s Conversion Therapy Decision

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The Supreme Court handed down a decision today striking down Colorado’s ban on conversion therapy for minors. The ruling, decided 8–1, surprised many. It will likely reshape how states regulate therapy, speech, and professional boundaries moving forward. For many of my colleagues in counseling and mental health, this decision feels like a step backward. For

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When Diversity Becomes a Box-Checking Game: A Response to CACREP’s New DEI Suspension

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CACREP’s recent memorandum, temporarily suspending the 2024 standards on “underrepresented populations,” attempts to sound procedural and neutral. But behind the careful phrasing is a larger truth our field keeps avoiding: we talk endlessly about diversity, yet we have no coherent definition of who is actually underrepresented. CACREP never tells us. The memo doesn’t either. And

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