PSY237 Angeline M.

Limpiada 3Psy1 (MWF 4:00pm-5:00pm) November 14, 2012 Class #21

Historical Development Foreign Year 1900-1909 Proponents Frank Parsons Significant event/ Theory Founder of guidance Focused his work on growth and prevention Bostons Vocational Bureau Theorized that choosing a vocation was a matter of relating three factors: a knowledge of work, a knowledge of self and the matching of the two through true reasoning Choosing a Vocation (1909)

Jesse B. Davis

First person to set-up a systematized guidance program in the public schools Believed that proper guidance would help cure the ills of American society A Mind that Found Itself (1908) Advocate for better mental health facilities and reform in the treatment of people with mental illness by making friends with and soliciting funds from influential people of his day. Forerunner of mental health counseling

Clifford Beers

1910s National Vocational Guidance Association Forerunner American counseling association established an association offering guidance literature and united those with interest in vocational counseling for the first time World War I recognized counseling as the military began to employs testing and placements practice s for great numbers of military personnel

1920s Education courses for counselors and certification of counselors

Edward Strong Abraham & Hannah Stone

Strong Vocational Interest Inventory set the stage for future directions for assessment in counseling Established the first marriage and counseling center in New York

1930s E.G. Williamson

First theory of counseling Counselor-centered approach Broadening of counseling beyond occupational concerns Published the first edition of Dictionary of Occupational Titlesmajor source of career information for guidance specialist working with students and the unemployed.

Edward Thorndike U.S Employment Service

1940s

Carl Rogers

Counseling and Psychotherapy Nondirective Approach to counseling World war II- new way for looking at vocations for men and women Vocational education funds through the US office of education for counselor training institutes Funded the training of counselors and psychologists by granting stipends and paid internships for students engaged in graduate study. Establishments of American Personnel and Guidance Association concerned with educational and vocational guidance and other personnel activities. Chartering of the American School Counselor Association strengthened the association numerically, pragmatically and philosophically. Division 17- the Society of Counseling Psychology National Defense Education Act identify scientifically and academically talented students to promote their development. Systematic Desensitization Rational emotive therapy Transactional analysis Cognitive therapy Career development and advances in developmental psychology

George-Barden Act

Veterans Administration

1950s

Joseph Wolpe Albert Ellis Eric Berne Aaron Beck Donald Super

1960s

Gilbert Wrenn Community Health Center Act The Counselor in a Changing World Strongest counseling advocate in US Authorized the establishments of community mental health centers Diversification in counseling setting specialized training began to be offered in counselor education programs Helping skills program concentrated in communication and relationship skills Chaired the first APGA licensure Committee Standardized the training and certification of counselors, recognized counseling as a distinct profession, increased the diversification of counselor specialties and emphasized human growth and development. American Counseling Association new name better reflected the membership and mission of the organization Counseling was included for the first time in the health care human resource statistics Multicultural counseling competencies and standards about what diversity and pluralistic society entailed. Increase in managed health care organizations ACA celebrates 50 years as an entity in 2002 The Future of Counseling helps unify the profession 9/11 sparks increase in focus on trauma and crisis counseling Wellness, advocacy and social justice highlighted

1970s

Thomas J. Sweeney 1980s

1990s

2000s