The Use of Bookmarks in Teaching Counseling Ethics

Abstract

This column is designed to underscore relationally based creative teaching practices used by counselor-educators in the classroom. Our intention is to provide examples of novel, innovative ways for counselor-educators and students to deepen their learning while collaborating toward a spirit of connection and cooperation. If you have implemented a creative teaching method or if you have adapted an existing method that you would like to share with readers, please follow submission guidelines in the author information packet available at http://www.creativecounselor.org/Journal.html

This article includes a description of the bookmark as a creative arts experiential strategy useful in teaching counseling ethics education. Three bookmark examples illustrate how counselors-in-training utilized bookmarks to conceptualize their counseling ethics understanding. Illustrations and written feedback from the counselors-in-training suggest that the bookmarks reflect developmental aspects of understanding of counseling ethics knowledge integration and enhance creativity and self-expression. Implications for counselor education and suggestions for further research are discussed.

Keywords:

• creativity
• ethics education
• experiential education

Acknowledgments

The Arden White Research Scholarship was awarded to Guilherme Zavaschi to encourage him to be involved with research activities. Gratitude is also expressed to Chandler Stevenson, Jeff Norman, and Guilherme Zavaschi, who authored the three bookmarks, and Jeremy Elsmore, who helped with technology support to submit the bookmarks.