Professional Development

Professional development is both a perk and an ethical obligation in the counseling field. The American Counseling Association (2014) provides an ethical mandate for counselors to maintain current knowledge, using the most current counseling theory, to provide efficacious treatment. Additional, as Washburn et al. (2023) argue, lifelong learning fosters a sense of humility amongst practitioners in the counseling and psychology fields because it deprioritizes a practitioner’s sense of knowing everything applicable in their field. Below are just a few examples of my professional development from throughout my master’s program and internship. Additionally, as ethics as an essential component of this field, my professional development includes the development of my ethical insight. This assignment provides insight into that growth.

Counseling on Access to Lethal Means

MT Residency Training

IPV Training

Mandated Reporting

American Counseling Association. (2014). 2014 ACA code of ethics. https://www.counseling.org/docs/default-source/default-document-library/2014-code-of-ethics-finaladdress.pdf

Washburn, J. J., Teachman, B. A., Gaudiano, B. A., Penberthy, J. K., Peris, T. S., Davison, G. C., & Hollon, S. D. (2023). The Central Role of Lifelong Learning and Humility in Clinical Psychology. Clinical Psychological Science, 11(4), 744-756. https://doi.org/10.1177/21677026221101063