Career Options for Counselor Educators and Supervisors

For this assignment, use the resources from your studies to explore your interest in career options of counselor educators and supervisors and identify program and professional resources that will support your development on your doctoral journey.

Prepare a paper in which you complete the following:

Identify and compare two career options for CES professionals who emphasize counseling, teaching, research and scholarship, or leadership and advocacy roles. Describe the roles and activities typically included in each.

Evaluate your personal interest in the two career options you identified and compared. Briefly describe your potential dissertation topic under consideration, and how the topic relates to one of the areas required by CACREP for CES dissertations (counselor education, counseling practice, counseling supervision, leadership, and/or advocacy).

Describe Capella resources and tools that will assist you in your development of scholar-practitioner skills.

Identify organizations and publications that support scholarship for counselor educators and supervisors.

Describe what you see as your greatest personal resources for completing your doctoral journey. Identify what additional resources and skills you will need to strengthen or acquire to be successful in your doctoral journey.

Additional Requirements
Your assignment should be prepared in APA style to meet the following requirements:

Written communication: Employ effective academic communication skills in a manner consistent with members of the counseling profession.
Length: 3–5 double-spaced pages, excluding the cover page and references list. Include page numbers, headings, and running heads.
References: A minimum of four current scholarly articles to support your work. Your sources should be less than 5 years old.
Format: Use current APA style (7th edition) and formatting, paying particular attention to citations and references.
Font and font size: Times New Roman, 12 point.
Competencies Measured
By successfully completing this assignment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and rubric criteria:

Competency 2: Explain the processes and resources available to facilitate the doctoral journey.
Describe Capella resources and tools available for the development of scholar-practitioner skills.
Identify organizations and publications that support scholarship for counselor educators and supervisors.
Identify personal resources that will support success through the doctoral program.

 

Competency 4: Explain the career choices for a graduate of a counselor education and supervision program.
Compare career options for counselor educators who emphasize different roles in the profession.

 

Evaluate personal interests in two career options for counselor educators.
Competency 5: Communicate effectively through the consistent use of APA guidelines for grammar, punctuation, and mechanics expected of a counseling professional.
Employ effective academic communication skills in a manner consistent with members of the counseling profession.

 

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