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Former headquarters of the American Personnel and Guidance Association in Washington, D.C.. The group was founded in 1952 [5] as the American Personnel and Guidance Association (APGA), formed by the merger of the National Vocational Guidance Association (NVGA), the National Association of Guidance and Counselor Trainers (NAGCT), the Student Personnel Association for Teacher Education (SPATE ...
The American Mental Health Counselors Association was founded in 1976 by Jim Messina and Nancy Spisso of the Escambia County Mental Health Center in Florida. At the time, mental health counselors lacked a clearly defined identity or an organization to represent their distinctive interests. [ 1 ]
Holcomb-McCoy specializes in measuring multicultural self-efficacy and cultural competence in school counseling, evaluation of urban school counselor training and preparation, and counselor influence on low-income students' college readiness. [4] She is an American Counseling Association (ACA) Fellow. [5]
The Commission on Rehabilitation Counselor Certification is a national certifying organization for professional rehabilitation counselors.Based in Schaumburg, IL, it is an independent, not-for-profit organization whose purpose is to establish, maintain, and monitor a national certification program for Certified Rehabilitation Counselors, including maintaining a register of all certified ...
Unlike other professional mental health entities such as the American Counseling Association (ACA), the American Psychological Association (APA), and the Association for Counselor Education and Supervision (ACES), NBCC does not have members. Instead, NBCC sets its own policies and procedures for national certification in professional counseling ...
Adultspan Journal is a biannual peer-reviewed academic journal published by Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the American Counseling Association and the Association for Adult Development and Aging (AADA). The journal was established in 1999. Its current editor-in-chief is Catherine B. Roland.
The Journal of College Counseling was initiated in 1998 as a scholarly journal with an orientation to the work of practitioners. Since 2002, ACCA has also sponsored a biennial national conference, co-hosted with one of its state divisions, in addition to its annual business meeting and other activities held at the ACA conference.
The Association for Counselor Education and Supervision (ACES) and the American Personnel and Guidance Association (a precursor to the American Counselor Association) discussed cooperative accreditation efforts for counseling programs. This ultimately led to CACREP's establishment. [8] [9]