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Research Identity Among Master’s-Level Counseling Students: Exploring Research Competencies, Motivation, and Advisory Working Alliance

Stevens, Madeleine M.
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8129-0892
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1618505096365955

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2021, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Ohio University, Counselor Education (Education).
Counseling leaders have published guidelines for enhancing professional counselor identity. The goal of these calls to action is to strengthen and unify the counseling profession in order to differentiate the field from other helping professions and to solidify a definition of professional counselor identity. One facet of professional counselor identity lies in counselors’ level of engagement with research engagement, otherwise defined as research identity. Counselors must consistently engage in research activities in order to utilize evidence-based clinical practices and evaluate the efficacy of treatment interventions. However, counseling scholars discuss the need for increased research engagement across the profession. The training of counselors begins at the master’s level in counseling education programs, which provide the foundation for professional counselor identity, including research engagement. Many scholars have discussed research identity development among doctoral counselor education students, but little information exists which explicates this concept among master’s students. This study provides quantitative data regarding counselor education master’s students research identity, specifically in relation to three key constructs of research identity: research motivation, research competence, and advisory working alliance. Through this study, I accomplished three objectives: (1) describe the level of self-reported perceived research competency among master’s-level counselor education students in CACREP-accredited programs in the NCACES region, (2) describe relationships among participants’ self-reported research competency, research motivation, and perceptions of advisory working alliance, and (3) describe relationships among participants’ self-reported research competency, research motivation, and perceptions of advisory working alliance and age, gender, program specialty area, undergraduate major, number of terms in the master’s program, and number of research courses taken. Participants in this study include 189 counselor education master’s students in programs accredited by the Council for Accreditation of Counseling and Related Educational Programs (CACREP) within the North Central region of the Association for Counselor Education and Supervision (NCACES). Findings of this study provide several implications for counseling leaders, counselor educators, and supervisors of counseling students in the pursuit of training future professional counselors. A discussion professional counselor identity and research identity are provided here, as well as a review of research engagement among counselors and counseling students. Further, the results of the study are presented as well as implications and limitations of the study, and suggestions for future research.
Christine Bhat (Committee Chair)
Gordon Brooks (Committee Member)
Yegan Pillay (Committee Member)
Tamarine Foreman (Committee Member)
Counseling Education
counselor education; research education; CACREP; research training; research competencies; research motivation; advisory working alliance; professional counselor identity

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  • Stevens, M. M. (2021). Research Identity Among Master’s-Level Counseling Students: Exploring Research Competencies, Motivation, and Advisory Working Alliance [Doctoral dissertation, Ohio University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1618505096365955

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Stevens, Madeleine. Research Identity Among Master’s-Level Counseling Students: Exploring Research Competencies, Motivation, and Advisory Working Alliance. 2021. Ohio University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1618505096365955.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Stevens, Madeleine. "Research Identity Among Master’s-Level Counseling Students: Exploring Research Competencies, Motivation, and Advisory Working Alliance." Doctoral dissertation, Ohio University, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1618505096365955

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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