Dr. Janee Steele and Dr. Glinda Rawls publish in Counselor Education and Supervision

Dr. Janee M. Steele and Dr. Glinda J. Rawls have an article published in the June 2015 issue of Counselor Education and Supervision published by the American Counseling Association. The article is titled “Quantitative Research Attitudes and Research Training Perceptions among Master’s Level Students”. Since research is a fundamental aspect of counselor training and practice, Drs. Steele and Rawls surveyed 804 master's-level counseling student members of the American Counseling Association to explore their perceptions of training in the Council for Accreditation of Counseling and Related Educational Program (2009) Research and Program Evaluation standards and their attitudes toward quantitative research. They pursued this line of research because limited empirical evidence has documented master's-level counseling students' attitudes toward research or their perceptions about research training. Much of the literature on research training and students in counseling programs exists at the doctoral level. Drs. Steele and Rawls' research revealed the following:

1. Counseling students held low to moderate perceptions about their research training and attitudes towards research,
2. There is a relationship between counseling students' attitudes towards research and their perceptions about the degree of preparedness they had in the Research and Program Evaluation standards, and
3. There were no statistical differences in attitudes towards research or degree of preparedness in the Research and Program Evaluation standards across program accreditation status like whether the program was accredited, nor were there any differences found within specialty areas like clinical mental health counseling versus school counseling.

In the article, Drs. Steele and Rawls explored the implications their research has for counselor training and discussed areas for future research.