| During the last decade, some major changes have occurred which seem to be changing the fields of professional psychology and, more specifically, Counseling Psychology. Counseling Psychology has long been associated with vocational counseling, developmental/educational theory, and prevention. However, this too seems to be changing, especially at the level of training for new counseling psychologists.;This study was an attempt to examine the existing research concerning changes in Counseling Psychology. The existing research was then compared and contrasted to the results of a survey of students studying in and faculty currently teaching in a doctoral program in Counseling Psychology. Students and faculty were asked to complete a 29-item survey. Results were analyzed by descriptive statistics, ANOVA's a series of ;Students did differ from faculty in their responses in several areas, including educational-vocational counseling, marriage and family counseling, crisis intervention, primary prevention, vocational development theory, human development theory, vocational testing, aptitude testing, and licensing. Not only did faculty and students differ from each other, but students differed from each other by their level (year) of training (YOT). Educational-vocational counseling, group counseling, vocational development theory, objective personality testing, administration, research, APA membership and Division 17 membership all showed significant differences as a result of the students YOT. Finally, one very important finding suggested that faculty had very diverse interests from one another with only two faculty members consistently resembling the traditional goals and interests of Counseling Psychologists. Implications arising from diminishing interest in the areas of educational-vocational counseling, vocational development theory, crisis intervention, primary prevention, vocational and aptitude testing and research, increasing interest in marriage and family counseling and licensing, changes in the basic philosophy, and implications for the future direction, focus and practice of Counseling Psychology were discussed. |
