Developing Skills in Providing Outreach Programs

Abstract

Rubrics, commonly used in classroom assessment, can be beneficial in assessing the performance of counseling outreach and presentation skills. A rubric to assess how well graduate students in counseling learned and demonstrated outreach presentation skills was developed. The development of the rubric is described, along with results of the evaluation of the rubric. Suggestions for a variety of uses of rubrics in the college counseling center context, as well as in counselor education, are presented.

• education
• counselor
• teaching
• pedagogy
• evaluation

Notes

The author(s) declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the authorship and/or Publication of this article.

The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research and/or authorship of this article: This research was supported by a grant from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA; Grant 1H79SM057821-01).

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Deborah J. Taub

Deborah J. Taub is professor of higher education at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro. She has been active in campus suicide prevention work for the past five years. Her other research interests include the psychosocial and identity development of traditional age college students.

Heather L. Servaty-Seib

Heather L. Servaty-Seib is a counseling psychology, associate professor of educational studies at Purdue University, and past president of the Association for Death Education and Counseling. Her research interests include a broad range of areas within thanatology with particular emphasis on adolescent grief and social support offered to the bereaved.

Carrie A. Wachter Morris

Carrie A. Wachter Morris is an assistant professor in the school counseling program at Purdue University. Her research interests include crisis prevention and intervention and innovation in counselor education pedagogy.

Susan L. Prieto-Welch

Susan L. Prieto-Welch is Director of Counseling and Psychological Services at Purdue University. A Counseling Psychologist by training, her areas of interest and expertise include working with individuals and communities that have experienced crisis and trauma; training and supervision; and working with issues of diversity and identity. She also enjoys teaching courses in doctoral programs and has served on a number of thesis and dissertation committees.

Donald Werden

Don Werden earned his PhD in Counseling Psychology from the University of Oklahoma in 1997. He has been with Purdue Counseling and Psychologicl Services since that time, serving as Coordinator of Outreach and Consultation for ten years and as Assistant Director and Coordinator of Data Management and Technology for the past three years.