Date of Award
12-2022
Culminating Project Type
Dissertation
Styleguide
apa
Degree Name
Higher Education Administration: Ed.D.
Department
Educational Administration and Higher Education
College
School of Education
First Advisor
Dr. Rachel Friedensen
Second Advisor
Dr. Jennifer B. Jones
Third Advisor
Dr. Rebecca Nelson-Crowell
Fourth Advisor
Dr. Joy McKenzie
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License.
Keywords and Subject Headings
Communication Sciences and Disorders, Counseling, Theory to Practice, Interprofessional Education Collaborative Practice, Higher Education
Abstract
The current study was conducted to better understand how specific counseling training and engagement in collaborative learning and Interprofessional Education and Collaborative Practice (IPECP) reflective practice aided in closing the gap from theory to practice to better support communication sciences and disorders graduate student clinicians’ confidence in implementing counseling skills within practicum experiences. This study utilized fixed mixed-methods within a convergent-parallel, exploratory, study situated in the pragmatic paradigm (Cresswell & Clark, 2018; Tashakkori & Teddlie, 1998). The graduate student participants had an opportunity to use their newly acquired counseling skills from coursework and training in practicum experiences in a larger Pilot Program while engaging in IPECP with Community Mental Health and Counseling (CMHC) graduate students and reflective practice debrief sessions after each practicum experience. Both qualitative and quantitative data supported the benefits of engaging in specific counseling training and collaborative learning and IPECP with reflective practice on graduate students’ confidence in utilizing counseling skills with caregivers to support child client gains.
Recommended Citation
Schaefer, Sarah, "Confidence in Counseling Skills in Communication Sciences and Disorders: A Mixed-Methods Study on Theory to Practice" (2022). Culminating Projects in Higher Education Administration. 60.
https://repository.stcloudstate.edu/hied_etds/60
