Counselling psychologists as scientist-practitioners: Finding unity in diversity

Abstract

This paper introduces the Special Issue on counselling psychologists as scientist-practitioners. The primary goal of the Special Issue is to examine the evolving nature and current status of the scientist-practitioner (S-P) model in counselling psychology from the perspectives of four early career counselling psychologists who illustrate the implementation of the S-P identity in their particular work settings. A concluding commentary by a senior counselling psychologist describes the evolution of the model throughout his career and highlights the role of context in defining scientist-practitioners.

Keywords:

• Counselling psychology
• scientist-practitioner model
• early career counselling psychologists

Notes

Note

[1] This special issue represents a significant extension of ideas from the symposium Expanding the scientist-practitioner model: Four counseling psychologists report presented at the 112th Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association in Honolulu, Hawaii (July 2004). The authors gratefully acknowledge Vivian Barnette and Dominic Barraclough for their initiation of and participation in a series of conversations that shaped the ideas for this issue.