Development of the counsellor personal wellness and professional wellbeing assessment

ABSTRACT

We developed the Counsellor Personal Wellness and Professional Wellbeing (CPW) assessment based on the integration of the Well-Being theory and the Indivisible Self Model of Wellness (IS-WEL). Our participants included 326 counsellors, counsellor educators, and counsellors-in-training in the United States. The participants primarily identified as White (77%), women (80%), and with a doctoral degree (42%). Based on our results, the CPW can be used as a self-assessment or an administered assessment among counselling professionals and clinical supervisors. We provide a rationale for developing the C-PW and the instrument development and validation procedure. Implications for counselling professionals and researchers are included.

KEYWORDS:

• Counsellor assessment
• exploratory factor analysis
• wellbeing assessment
• wellness assessment

Acknowledgement

The authors would like to thank Halie Ecker and our expert reviewers for their assistance with this project.

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).

Data availability statement

Authors agree to make data and materials supporting the results or analyses presented in their paper available upon reasonable request.

Additional information

Funding

This study was funded through the Association for Assessment and Research in Counseling.

Notes on contributors

Karisse A. Callender

Dr. Karisse A Callender is an assistant professor of Counselor Education in the department of Counsellor Education and Counseling Psychology at Marquette University, and a licensed counsellor in Wisconsin, USA. She has experience providing mental health and substance abuse counselling in both outpatient and residential treatment settings. Her research areas of interest include sexual trauma, substance use, wellness, and mindfulness.

Abdulkadir Haktanir

Dr. Abdulkadir Haktanir is an assistant professor of Psychological Counselling and Guidance at Necmettin Erbakan University, Turkey. He was the recipient of the 2017 Exemplary Research and Practice Award: Doctoral Level, an award offered by the Association for Assessment and Research in Counselling, a division of American Counselling Association. His research interests include suicide prevention and suicide assessment, multicultural counselling, positive psychology, ethics in counselling, and counselling self-efficacy.