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Counseling
Psychology Is No. 1
By Jeff Neu
A recent University of Notre Dame study
examined the level of research productivity at 433 counseling
psychology institutions in the country. The study found the
University of Missouri-Columbia’s counseling psychology
program ranked number one in the nation. Now the program is
celebrating 50 years of American
Psychological Association (APA) accreditation, one of only
six counseling psychology programs in the nation to reach that
milestone since APA began accrediting them in 1952.
MU faculty, staff, alumni and students from
the Department of Educational,
School and Counseling Psychology and its counseling and
career center recently commemorated the anniversary with a conference
that featured a broad array of workshops for researchers and
practitioners.
“The program has an incredibly rich
history and reflects the evolution of the broader profession
of counseling psychology,” said Puncky Heppner, MU professor
and chair of the Educational, School and Counseling Psychology
department.
More than 700 doctoral students have passed
through the program, which opened in 1946. More than 35 graduates
have become directors of university counseling centers across
the country and more than 100 have been faculty at other universities.
Today with approximately 50 percent of the program’s doctoral
students consisting of either racial or ethnic minorities, international
students, or gay, lesbian, or bisexuals, the program was awarded
the 2000 Suinn Minority Achievement Award.
The program has had such pioneer faculty
as Paul Polmantier, Robert Callis and John McGowan. McGowan,
with former graduate student Lyle Schmidt, wrote the book, “Counseling:
Readings in Theory and Practice,” one of the first books
to seriously examine counseling. Many of the current faculty
have made major professional contributions, such as Norman Gysbers,
whose comprehensive guidance and counseling program is used
in more than 33 states. Recently, in concert with the counseling
program, the School Psychology program has created the nation’s
first Center for the Advancement of Mental Health Practices
in School.
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