COUC 601 CERTIFICATION ACTUAL TEST
PAPER COMPLETE SOLUTION VIEW
AHEAD
●● Why is it important for counselors, counselor educators, and
counseling students to be active members of counseling associations?
Answer: To advance the profession, demonstrate professionalism,
maintain counseling skills, and partake in the benefits the organizations
offer
●● American counseling association
Answer: ACA. worlds largest association for counselors. The ACA
speaks to and for professional counselors across all settings and
specialties. The ACA gives members the opportunity to stay in touch
with issues across the entire counseling spectrum, so members can
benefit from ideas and approaches outside their areas of specialty.
●● When was the ACA founded, and what was it called?
Answer: ACA was founded in 1952, and it was called American
Personnel and Guidance Association (APGA). The title reflected the 4
organizations that came together to from the ACA
●● 4 organizations that came together to form the ACA
,Answer: the national vocational guidance association, the national
association of guidance and counselor trainers, the student personnel
association for teacher education, and the american college personnel
association.
●● The roots of counseling are in...
Answer: education and career development
●● When did APGA change its name?
Answer: 1983. APGA changed its name to the American Association for
Counseling and Development (AACD). The name change signified the
emergence of a professional identity that could be distinguished from
other mental health professions, such as psychology and social work.
For the first time, counseling was in the professional organizations title.
The word development was also added to the title. The organizations
initial focus on career development blossomed into something no other
helping profession did: human development across the human life span
that focuses on positive growth rather than pathology.
●● When did AACD change its name?
Answer: in 1992, they changed their name again. They dropped the word
development from their title. This is when they began going by the
american counseling association ACA. They deleted the word
development to unite and reflect the common link between association
members
, ●● ACA mission statement
Answer: the mission of the ACA is to enhance the quality of life in
society by promoting the development of professional counselors,
advancing the counseling profession, and using the profession and
practice of counseling to promote respect for human dignity and
diversity
●● What 2 publications does the ACA issue?
Answer: Counseling Today and the Journal of Counseling &
Development
●● Counseling today
Answer: a monthly magazine that features award winning writers and
articles on topics of special and general interest to counselors.
Counseling today also provides employment advertisements,
advertisements from companies offering products for counselors, and
monthly columns for students, private practitioners, and others
●● The Journal of Counseling & Development-
Answer: ACAs flagship journal. It publishes articles of interest to the
entire ACA membership, with topics reaching across all specialties and
work settings.
●● Divisions of the ACA
PAPER COMPLETE SOLUTION VIEW
AHEAD
●● Why is it important for counselors, counselor educators, and
counseling students to be active members of counseling associations?
Answer: To advance the profession, demonstrate professionalism,
maintain counseling skills, and partake in the benefits the organizations
offer
●● American counseling association
Answer: ACA. worlds largest association for counselors. The ACA
speaks to and for professional counselors across all settings and
specialties. The ACA gives members the opportunity to stay in touch
with issues across the entire counseling spectrum, so members can
benefit from ideas and approaches outside their areas of specialty.
●● When was the ACA founded, and what was it called?
Answer: ACA was founded in 1952, and it was called American
Personnel and Guidance Association (APGA). The title reflected the 4
organizations that came together to from the ACA
●● 4 organizations that came together to form the ACA
,Answer: the national vocational guidance association, the national
association of guidance and counselor trainers, the student personnel
association for teacher education, and the american college personnel
association.
●● The roots of counseling are in...
Answer: education and career development
●● When did APGA change its name?
Answer: 1983. APGA changed its name to the American Association for
Counseling and Development (AACD). The name change signified the
emergence of a professional identity that could be distinguished from
other mental health professions, such as psychology and social work.
For the first time, counseling was in the professional organizations title.
The word development was also added to the title. The organizations
initial focus on career development blossomed into something no other
helping profession did: human development across the human life span
that focuses on positive growth rather than pathology.
●● When did AACD change its name?
Answer: in 1992, they changed their name again. They dropped the word
development from their title. This is when they began going by the
american counseling association ACA. They deleted the word
development to unite and reflect the common link between association
members
, ●● ACA mission statement
Answer: the mission of the ACA is to enhance the quality of life in
society by promoting the development of professional counselors,
advancing the counseling profession, and using the profession and
practice of counseling to promote respect for human dignity and
diversity
●● What 2 publications does the ACA issue?
Answer: Counseling Today and the Journal of Counseling &
Development
●● Counseling today
Answer: a monthly magazine that features award winning writers and
articles on topics of special and general interest to counselors.
Counseling today also provides employment advertisements,
advertisements from companies offering products for counselors, and
monthly columns for students, private practitioners, and others
●● The Journal of Counseling & Development-
Answer: ACAs flagship journal. It publishes articles of interest to the
entire ACA membership, with topics reaching across all specialties and
work settings.
●● Divisions of the ACA
