International peer review commentary: Contemporary counseling psychology: Back to the future?

Abstract

Counseling psychology has experienced a number of important changes that seemingly have implications for doctoral training. As a result, questions have been raised about how programs could best accommodate to current training needs and marketplace demands. This paper describes one program's attempt to (a) examine contemporary training needs and demands in counselling psychology and (b) address these needs through providing training that seemingly would meet them. The assumptions and basic outline of the program are described. The program is not presented as a model to follow, but rather as one implemented, formative effort designed to accommodate to ongoing changes in the counseling specialty. Such a programmatic description may stimulate further discussion about how best to deal with marketplace demands and variations in psychological practice.